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virgin HDMI vs chad VGA (programming.dev)
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[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

The pixels come out otherwise.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months 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 2 months 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.

[-] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I don’t know why I kept tightening them. I never found myself in a situation where the connector was falling out if they were left unscrewed.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

You ...monster!

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No hotplugging back then. If you pulled out the plug, gotta reboot. Idk if anything worse could happen, like damage to the hardware.

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