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Every god damn time (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[-] [email protected] 207 points 1 week ago

Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?

[-] [email protected] 253 points 1 week ago

Dude, it’s a dinosaur using a computer. Cut him some slack.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago

Watch out. That's how you create a Slackware user.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

dis playport, dis not dinosaur

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for "no reason"

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

99% of the people out there

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[-] [email protected] 160 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 week 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] 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 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.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

jesus christ, add an NSFL tag to that

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week 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.

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[-] [email protected] 117 points 1 week ago
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"text so that the comment is federated properly"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

"text so that the comment is federated properly"

Say what now?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

The funny thing is that their comment is the one not federated properly.

screenshot of the comment 2 level above this comment

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[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

But less evil than the HDMI fees.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago

You know they make displayport cables without the clips, right?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I did not know this. Are they allowed by the spec?

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Well it's about time my flowerbed got some fresh pixels

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

That is atrocious, but I'm howling because that is literally PipeWire

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

You anarchist!

Real talk though, I think specs are literally my favorite thing in the world. The truly great ones are so good that there's never a real reason to deviate from them - if you do, you're either doing something wrong or you're taking a shortcut for a hobbyist project (which is fine, but not for anything mass-produced). USB is mostly one of those great specs. The cable you posted is an abomination. There is always a better way.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It's a strength check. It takes the might of Thor to squeeze the plug enough, in a tight space, at an odd angle, behind the computer.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Why do they even make them with the clips? If someone trips on a cable or something, and there's no clip, it's a mild inconvenience to plug it back in. If it's clipped, you can bring the whole computer crashing down!

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's because the dinosaur high as fuck.

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 119 points 1 week ago

In some cases those were load bearing cables, too

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

This photo is so stressful

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

When the engineers specifically design a connector to never disconnect accidentally, they shouldn't be surprised by people who take it as a challenge.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I just never bothered with the screws, some cables even came without them.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

skill issue

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Are your rechargeable batteries on a space heater?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Why do display port cable connectors have these stupid latches with a crappy button that will, even when the button is fully depresses, still stick out so that removing the connector nis always a draaaagggg..

Yeah, HDMI licensing sucks but at least you can plug and disconnect HDMI in a normal way. Dispkay port is the worst

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I do like the hooks on Display Port, honestly. There were quite a few times where HDMI cables came loose while adjusting my screen due to the cable being tied together with other cables for organisational purposes. Putting it back in always a chore then.

I don't think it is even much of a hassle when unplugging it from a machine, such as a PC. I do agree it's a pain for monitors however, as the ports usually are in a more indented position.

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