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virgin HDMI vs chad VGA (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by calango@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

To be fair, VGA had 2 big ass screws on each side to hold the connection in. If you tightened them all the way down, the VGA connector was essentially part of the fucking machine at that point.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 week ago

USB-C with screws

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

I remember wondering as a kid why those plugs needed to be screwed in like that. It seemed ridiculously overengineered.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago

The pixels come out otherwise.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

It was! Back in the day, half the time the screws were tighter in the plug which caused the sockets to come out of the motherboard rather than unscrewing in many times during my desktop days. I fucking hated them!

Could at least straighten a bent pin, though...

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.