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.
No, I actually like DickPlay ports.
(Tho I think we should be using open standard ports overall.)
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)
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.
… better pics of it or it didn’t happen … ?
Sounds like it looks cool af.
So… batteries on a radiator that dumps heat into a space.
Totally different than a space heater.
Nice
Hey, relax man. We aren’t all mechanical engineers here.
Many monitors have an audio out port in the monitor itself now. Really useful if you have multiple inputs.
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
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.
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.
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
But have you considered that the DisplayPort shape looks kinda sexy
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!
got a term for insects too?
Buggies? Or just “furries”
There are a surprising number of moth and bee 'sonas, but the terms aren’t well defined
Insectoid
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
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.
I’ve cut my finger with that sharp metal bump in the DisplayPort cable head. I forgot what I was doing, though. but I was struggling to unplug it and accidentally pressing it abobe that sharp metal bit.
The cut was small but deep, I end up enjoying to see my fresh red blood for a while because it was quite a lot. I rarely bleed that much.
Lol @ 1am
It DisplayDePorts your silicon.
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.
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.
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
DisplayPort as a standard is free of charge and better in every way. AFAIK, it can handle multiple 8K monitors without issues provided your GPU is strong enough.
There are DisplayPort cables that don’t have the latch if you prefer them.
Vga even worse
Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?
99% of the people out there
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.
That explains the elections
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
dis playport, dis not dinosaur
Dis no saur*
But it’s dis nuts
It’s a croc. Notice the two tail ridges
Please elaborate, I tried searching for images of croc and aligator tails to compare but all I got was barbeque recipes for aligator tails. And posters of aligator cuts.
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”
Had this at my company some time ago. People just don’t understand retention mechanisms I don’t think
Back in my day you would rip your arm off before the cable breaks.
China to the rescue, a good tug and they peel like a banana now
:[‘
Mechanical retention plugs are fading away, sadly. Long live the era of loose, wiggly plugs that may one day need to be held at a 20 degree angle to work.
That being said, I hate the retention clips on RJ45 and RJ11 jacks… I’ve had a few that wouldn’t release at all. Then I wind up struggling with my router for 4-5 minutes because its hooked up in my entertainment stand. If you accidentally snap those suckers in the process and plug them back in they will slowly slide out and you’re left wondering why your ethernet connection isn’t working a couple months later.
I’ve debated getting a spool of cat5 and a bag of RJ45. Much cheaper than replacing a whole cord every time and saves a lot of landfill. On the days my PC repair teacher was busy with a full IT backlog he’d sit us in a circle and had us put plugs on Cat5e, so the process isn’t unknown to me.
I’ve never actually seen a display port cable, so if there was one in the back of a PC I had to pull out, I’d initially treat it like a HDMI cable and just pull it out.
It doesn’t look like it has screws, so if it has some way of locking in place it must be sneaky about it right?
My rule of thumb for technology is “don’t force it”. If it doesn’t come out with a light pull that’s when the flashlight comes out and I start inspecting. This rule doesn’t always work, though. Sometimes it takes the strength of 10 gorillas to put RAM in and I’m always scared to push harder.
when your main stat is strength, and you’ve entirely ignored int/wis
Seriously though, if the cable doesn’t want to come out with reasonable force, the solution is PROBABLY NOT to apply more force. What kind of cavemen do you have working there?
cavemen
Worse. University students.
I’m a sysadmin at a university. Last semester, we lost five DP cables, two DP-VGA adapters, one graphics card, and one motherboard to these acts of barbarism. Plus the non-DP stuff – keyboards with missing or broken keys, mice with buttons bent out or just smashed to bits, RS232 connectors broken because they forgot to unscrew them, all kinds of USB cables cracked at the connector because students unplug them to use with their own laptops and plug them back into the front IO creating a nice little 180° bend, countless ethernet cables ripped out of the motherboard, stolen equipment, monitors that were straight up broken off their stands…
Calling them “cavemen” is an insult to cavemen.
Hear hear! Glad someone recognizes we’re not all barbarians who wreck anything we touch
uh. what is that?
The severed remains of a DP cable, sill attached to the port.
jesus christ, add an NSFL tag to that
There is a community for that kind of stuff if you’re into it - !hardwaregore@lemmy.world. It’s kinda inactive and only has a new post once every other month, but there’s a photo of basically the same thing done to an HDMI cable seven posts down.
subscribed!
DisplayPort connector stuck in socket I think
