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[-] [email protected] 158 points 5 days ago

Had this at my company some time ago. People just don't understand retention mechanisms I don't think

[-] [email protected] 82 points 5 days ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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 180ยฐ 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Hear hear! Glad someone recognizes we're not all barbarians who wreck anything we touch

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago
[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago

The severed remains of a DP cable, sill attached to the port.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

jesus christ, add an NSFL tag to that

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

There is a community for that kind of stuff if you're into it - [email protected]. 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

DisplayPort connector stuck in socket I think

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Back in my day you would rip your arm off before the cable breaks.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

China to the rescue, a good tug and they peel like a banana now

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It has two teeth like things and usually a barely noticeable "button" to press to release.

this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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