No, I actually like DickPlay ports.
(Tho I think we should be using open standard ports overall.)
Lol @ 1am
"text so that the comment is federated properly"
"text so that the comment is federated properly"
Say what now?
The funny thing is that their comment is the one not federated properly.
Holy shit I never knew that just putting pics was part of the issue. So many threads where I couldn't see the joke.
Also it's fine on my end
Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?
Dude, it’s a dinosaur using a computer. Cut him some slack.
Watch out. That's how you create a Slackware user.
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for "no reason"
99% of the people out there
I lived with my gfs family for a short while. We had a breakin one day (South Africa). Guys tried taking a pc that was plugged in with a vga cable. They couldn't get the cable off (the thief probably never used a pc in his life). They left the monitor (heavy crt type) with the vga cable, with a piece of the motherboard still attached to it.
Had this at my company some time ago. People just don't understand retention mechanisms I don't think
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.
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?
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 180° 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.
Hear hear! Glad someone recognizes we're not all barbarians who wreck anything we touch
The cash registers at a place I worked had this for the PS2 keyboard connection, too. IIRC, you needed to slide back a sleeve before giving the cable a tug. All this was behind the tight counter, buried under a layer of dust and whatever else fell behind the register. A skilled coworker could do it with one hand, but I never mastered that skill.
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
You know they make displayport cables without the clips, right?
I did not know this. Are they allowed by the spec?
Fuck the spec.
Well it's about time my flowerbed got some fresh pixels
The latch is optional. Most of my DP cables don't have them, and I'm glad for it because they're sometimes a pain in the arse to unlatch.
Maybe it's because the dinosaur high as fuck.
Kids nowadays don't know about DVI, VGA, COM, Parallel or Gameport. I loved the days when one could accidentally remove the screw on the board side.
In some cases those were load bearing cables, too
This photo is so stressful
When the engineers specifically design a connector to never disconnect accidentally, they shouldn't be surprised by people who take it as a challenge.
i went in this thread looking for this exact picture
Just do what I do. DVI to HDMI to an HDMI audio extractor to DVI.
All that for one of these guys, with the speaker bar (not pictured)
Are your rechargeable batteries on a space heater?
skill issue
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
sudo in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.