No, I actually like DickPlay ports.
(Tho I think we should be using open standard ports overall.)
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Say what now?
The funny thing is that their comment is the one not federated properly.
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.
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?
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.
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
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.
dis playport, dis not dinosaur
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”
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.
Africa sounds terrible. You live in a place where they still use VGA? How horrible.
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
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You know they make displayport cables without the clips, right?
In fact, I’ve never seen a DP cable with the clips. I had no idea they existed !
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!
Cable strength. Loose cabling can cause contact and thus signal issues
I did not know this. Are they allowed by the spec?
Fuck the spec.
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.
Yeah! Arbitrarily make one of those ends USB-B, then require it for nearly every damn printer in existence and don’t include the cable with the product.
Yes, I am aware that those are all separate decisions made by different assholes.
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.
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.
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?
Hah, no. Kinda looks like it, though. It’s a lamp, made out of a big glass vase and some LEDs, and the inside is a burned out resistive load that helped dissipate the excess energy from an old automated welding station. Basically, a big heatsink with a bunch of huge resistors. Just meant to dump a ton of energy out as heat for a few seconds at a time. I don’t have any better pics of it, I’m afraid.
… better pics of it or it didn’t happen … ?
Sounds like it looks cool af.
Slightly OT, but what do you call people who role play as dragons/reptiles/etc? “Furries” seems inaccurate, but it’s the first term that comes to mind when I see art like this.
Scalies
Can confirm, “scalies”
For birds it’s “avian”
got a term for insects too?
Buggies? Or just “furries”
There are a surprising number of moth and bee 'sonas, but the terms aren’t well defined
Insectoid
When HDMI came along and replaced DVI, I thought that would have finally been the end of video connectors that lock into the slot.
Thankfully I’ve been lucky enough to never actually own a monitor with a DisplayPort. They’ve all been HDMI-only. I currently don’t need more than 4K 120Hz anyway so HDMI 2.0 is good enough. Probably won’t upgrade again until we have 1000Hz displays (which is what’s needed to completely eliminate motion blur).
