The cash registers at a place I worked had this for the PS2 keyboard connection, too. IIRC, you needed to slide back a sleeve before giving the cable a tug. All this was behind the tight counter, buried under a layer of dust and whatever else fell behind the register. A skilled coworker could do it with one hand, but I never mastered that skill.
I lived with my gfs family for a short while. We had a breakin one day (South Africa). Guys tried taking a pc that was plugged in with a vga cable. They couldn’t get the cable off (the thief probably never used a pc in his life). They left the monitor (heavy crt type) with the vga cable, with a piece of the motherboard still attached to it.
Africa sounds terrible. You live in a place where they still use VGA? How horrible.
Don’t you go knockin my VGA. I still have about 10 in my attic. If nothing else, they’re great self-defense weapons. They could do some serious damage to a potential attacker and probably still work after.
That’s yet another reason I ain’t gonna play Sun City.
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Say what now?
The funny thing is that their comment is the one not federated properly.
Holy shit I never knew that just putting pics was part of the issue. So many threads where I couldn’t see the joke.
Also it’s fine on my end
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?
Dude, it’s a dinosaur using a computer. Cut him some slack.
Watch out. That’s how you create a Slackware user.
may be too late. I’ve been wanting to check out an old distro
It’s a croc. Notice the two tail ridges
dis playport, not dinosaur
Dis no saur*
But it’s dis nuts
99% of the people out there
That explains the elections
I think this number is far too high.
Me too but what can you do? I can’t remember ever seeing a non techie using tech hardware in the right way.
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”
Just do what I do. DVI to HDMI to an HDMI audio extractor to DVI.
All that for one of these guys, with the speaker bar (not pictured)
I miss my DVI to HDMI. Had to trade it off to a friend because his BenQ tinted everything lime green over HDMI. I gotta get another one to put in my big bag of cords I’ll never use but really like to have around.
Many monitors have an audio out port in the monitor itself now. Really useful if you have multiple inputs.
Are your rechargeable batteries on a space heater?
Hah, no. Kinda looks like it, though. It’s a lamp, made out of a big glass vase and some LEDs, and the inside is a burned out resistive load that helped dissipate the excess energy from an old automated welding station. Basically, a big heatsink with a bunch of huge resistors. Just meant to dump a ton of energy out as heat for a few seconds at a time. I don’t have any better pics of it, I’m afraid.
So… batteries on a radiator that dumps heat into a space.
Totally different than a space heater.
It’s non-functioning industrial trash that was upcycled into a decorative lamp.
Nice
Hey, relax man. We aren’t all mechanical engineers here.
Oh snap, just giving out personal information over here. Ill have to edit that in a minute.
It DisplayDePorts your silicon.
Maybe it’s because the dinosaur high as fuck.
Shares a wardrobe with Carl Brutananadilewski.
Kids nowadays don’t know about DVI, VGA, COM, Parallel or Gameport. I loved the days when one could accidentally remove the screw on the board side.
In some cases those were load bearing cables, too
Table? Naw, cable.
When the engineers specifically design a connector to never disconnect accidentally, they shouldn’t be surprised by people who take it as a challenge.
Design something sensible, then go over it again and redesign it with stupid and stubborn users in mind. Probably this is how things should go.
i went in this thread looking for this exact picture
Red power receptacles. Was this at a hospital?
My first thought.
I just never bothered with the screws, some cables even came without them.
I always gave them half a courtesy turn
You make it sound like they can afford modern hardware.
Slightly OT, but what do you call people who role play as dragons/reptiles/etc? “Furries” seems inaccurate, but it’s the first term that comes to mind when I see art like this.
Scalies
Can confirm, “scalies”
For birds it’s “avian”
I’ve been in the community for a while and somehow haven’t heard the term avian, thx for sharing!
To fully understand, I believe this video is very… uhm, “educative”? Scalie Squad vs. Furry Force (very NSFW) by college humor
I thought that was just like a meme term. I didn’t realise reptile furries actually called themselves that
I think its “Scalies” or something as in scales instead of fur
I think they’re scalies?
Pokemon PMD fans
Why do display port cable connectors have these stupid latches with a crappy button that will, even when the button is fully depresses, still stick out so that removing the connector nis always a draaaagggg…
Yeah, HDMI licensing sucks but at least you can plug and disconnect HDMI in a normal way. Dispkay port is the worst
You can buy cables without the latches on them, though idk if theyre technically to spec
That’s how my display port cable came with my monitor
This thread has me trippin out, I have 3 display port monitors and none of them have that latch.
Me too. I’ve never had one with a latch before!
Oh thank whatever god you believe in, that is such a blessing
I once bought a displayport to HDMI converter, plugged it in, and I could never unplug it anmore, so I just got another HDMI monitor for it
I do like the hooks on Display Port, honestly. There were quite a few times where HDMI cables came loose while adjusting my screen due to the cable being tied together with other cables for organisational purposes. Putting it back in always a chore then.
I don’t think it is even much of a hassle when unplugging it from a machine, such as a PC. I do agree it’s a pain for monitors however, as the ports usually are in a more indented position.
But have you considered that the DisplayPort shape looks kinda sexy
A similar vein as this, at work I was talking about a heat gun:
“Look, the feet are molded into the cable so if you break it you have to buy theirs!”
I then pull the cable out to show it as an example and snap
I didn’t realize it had a retention clip at all, so I lightly pulled it and snapped the thin plastic holding it in. I thought it was held in by friction.
Oops.
skill issue
Dp over usb type c fixes this…
yea but running video over USB c just feels wrong.
🤔 literally why?
I can’t explain it. I just don’t like it.
😂 fair enough. I’ve been /mostly/ enjoying the 1-connector for everything revolution myself. It is kind of annoying that I have to specifically search for cable brands that print what parts of the usb c standard they support on them though.
One connector to rule them all,
A maze of specs to blind them,
The consortium that forged them all,
in tangled cords will bind them.
When HDMI came along and replaced DVI, I thought that would have finally been the end of video connectors that lock into the slot.
Thankfully I’ve been lucky enough to never actually own a monitor with a DisplayPort. They’ve all been HDMI-only. I currently don’t need more than 4K 120Hz anyway so HDMI 2.0 is good enough. Probably won’t upgrade again until we have 1000Hz displays (which is what’s needed to completely eliminate motion blur).
HDMI royalties are disgusting
There are DisplayPort cables that don’t have the latch if you prefer them.
