Oh, you want to plug your own computer into your own TV using a cable you own?
Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask (and pay)?
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That's one of the things I like about Displayport. It locks in but is generally not too hard to remove (depending on your monitor/PC clearance).
The other is that it doesn't involve paying ransom to the HDMI consortium...
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Who screwed in vga carefully every time? Without the screws vga was worse.
You can get HDMI with a lock tab . I hate that too. Nothing worse than trying to reach behind a wall mount to squeeze the lock tab.
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Fun fact: The connector is called a DE-15, VGA is just the protocol using it in this application.
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The primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.
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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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As someone who worked IT help desk in the mid/late aughts: fuck VGA and DVI. Let them stay dead. If I had a nickel for every time I snagged one in a desk's rat's nest on every single USB or power cable while trying to route cables, I could build me a top of the line gaming rig with 2026 prices.
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Fuck HDMI. All my homies use Displayport!
I don't think hanging a CPU with a cable like that is a good thing.
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Kegels.
(sorry) (not sorry?)
Those two screws on the VGA block are tough
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Man, I miss those. Talk about enshittification lol
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HDMI also has a leaky hack
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/07/pulling-data-from-hdmi-rf-leakage/
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This isn't all that much cus of the slot and more to do with that most vga was set up with mounting screws which sadly fell out of favor with hdmi
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Look at that thing hang, man it's big.
it's the displayport that's giving me trouble, not the hdmi.
Add the Displayport! Which doesn't even allow hot-swapping, I keep needing to turn my computer off...
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