news.ycombinator.com• Jan 9, 2023• 1 min read
Ask HN: How do you manage your private tech inventory?Many of us have plenty of tech inventory:All kinds of devices, computers, network devices, cables, adapters, gaming consoles, plugs, tools, hardware components, accessories that belong to another device, USB thumb drives, laser pointers, external HDDs, cases, manuals etc..Such a collection can easily end in chaos: - Things do not have a place where they belong and lie around at random places. - It gets difficult to find things when needed. - Things can't be identified or distinguished: Was this the unique special Adapter from connector A to connector B? Was this the graphics card with the defect which looks the same as the replacement exemplar of the same type.It needs a systematic approach to restore order. It is easy to group some things of a kind and put them in a box.But what do you do with all the unique things where you own only a single of it's kind? And how do you recognize a special adapter after years, when it isn't special from the outside? And how do you know after years wh