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virgin HDMI vs chad VGA (programming.dev)

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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This is the logic of most ports. It's more expensive to replace the thing the cable is being plugged into than the cable. So you want the cable to fail from force first and leave the hardware undamaged.

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