"I hooked up a second monitor and neither are working!" (lemmy.world)

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I go to investigate, and they had managed to plug the HDMI cable of one monitor into the other monitor.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

To be generous, maybe they're familiar with DisplayPort daisy-chaining, which is a thing.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You just blew my mind. I didn’t know it’s even possible.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Displayport is pretty versatile. You can get an active DP hub and split DP into more independent screens if your GPU will support the total resolution.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And you can use it over TB/USB-C.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Interesting. Never heard of that. It'd just be a guess, but I'm doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You are a saint with that kind of compassionate thinking - well done!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

TIL. Nice

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