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virgin HDMI vs chad VGA (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 56 points 7 months ago (8 children)

To be fair, VGA had 2 big ass screws on each side to hold the connection in. If you tightened them all the way down, the VGA connector was essentially part of the fucking machine at that point.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I remember wondering as a kid why those plugs needed to be screwed in like that. It seemed ridiculously overengineered.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It was! Back in the day, half the time the screws were tighter in the plug which caused the sockets to come out of the motherboard rather than unscrewing in many times during my desktop days. I fucking hated them!

    Could at least straighten a bent pin, though...

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