I got this in the mail yesterday, and I’ve been scratching my head ever since. And not just because of the fleas, either!
It was in a padded envelope, but no invoice or anything. Now, I buy quite a lot of what are technically called “thingamabobs” on the web, and sometimes they take a long time to arrive, so…
Inside is something that looks like… er… Well, it’s one HDMI and one mini-HDMI, I think. But meant for… surface mounting or something? And what’s the black plastic strip?
Very odd.
But then I had a thought: Perhaps I could just check whether I’ve ordered something like this? Like, on the computer?
Oooh! It’s just an HDMI cable! Well, HDMI to mini HDMI, because I was going to use a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for a project!
And the black plastic strip is actually the cable… it’s just very… thin.
I can understand why they sent this disassembled, because it feels very fragile indeed. But it would have been perfect for my Pi Zero project, if I were going ahead with that, but I decided that it was too underpowered, so I’m using a bigger Raspberry…
So there you go. I’m not sure what the moral here is.