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.
may be too late. I’ve been wanting to check out an old distro
dis playport, dis not dinosaur
Dis no saur*
But it’s dis nuts
It’s a croc. Notice the two tail ridges
Please elaborate, I tried searching for images of croc and aligator tails to compare but all I got was barbeque recipes for aligator tails. And posters of aligator cuts.
did some more digging, and it seems to be an alligator
They seem to have more images with that character, and on e926 it’s tagged as aligator
Could also be an alligator. Mainly noting that it’s very likely not a dinosaur
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”
"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.
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.
Don’t you go knockin my VGA. I still have about 10 in my attic. If nothing else, they’re great self-defense weapons. They could do some serious damage to a potential attacker and probably still work after.
That’s yet another reason I ain’t gonna play Sun City.
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
Maybe it’s because the dinosaur high as fuck.
Shares a wardrobe with Carl Brutananadilewski.
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
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Red power receptacles. Was this at a hospital?
My first thought.
Table? Naw, cable.
I just never bothered with the screws, some cables even came without them.
I always gave them half a courtesy turn
You make it sound like they can afford modern hardware.
skill issue
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)
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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.
So… batteries on a radiator that dumps heat into a space.
Totally different than a space heater.
It’s non-functioning industrial trash that was upcycled into a decorative lamp.
… better pics of it or it didn’t happen … ?
Sounds like it looks cool af.
Nice
Hey, relax man. We aren’t all mechanical engineers here.
Oh snap, just giving out personal information over here. Ill have to edit that in a minute.
Many monitors have an audio out port in the monitor itself now. Really useful if you have multiple inputs.
Yeah, that is super handy. I wish this one had that. That’s what I was trying to emulate with the audio extractor.
I miss my DVI to HDMI. Had to trade it off to a friend because his BenQ tinted everything lime green over HDMI. I gotta get another one to put in my big bag of cords I’ll never use but really like to have around.
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.
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Can confirm, “scalies”
For birds it’s “avian”
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To fully understand, I believe this video is very… uhm, “educative”? Scalie Squad vs. Furry Force (very NSFW) by college humor
I thought that was just like a meme term. I didn’t realise reptile furries actually called themselves that
I think its “Scalies” or something as in scales instead of fur
I think they’re scalies?
Pokemon PMD fans
A similar vein as this, at work I was talking about a heat gun:
“Look, the feet are molded into the cable so if you break it you have to buy theirs!”
I then pull the cable out to show it as an example and snap
I didn’t realize it had a retention clip at all, so I lightly pulled it and snapped the thin plastic holding it in. I thought it was held in by friction.
Oops.
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.
Dp over usb type c fixes this…
yea but running video over USB c just feels wrong.
🤔 literally why?
I can’t explain it. I just don’t like it.
😂 fair enough. I’ve been /mostly/ enjoying the 1-connector for everything revolution myself. It is kind of annoying that I have to specifically search for cable brands that print what parts of the usb c standard they support on them though.
One connector to rule them all,
A maze of specs to blind them,
The consortium that forged them all,
in tangled cords will bind them.
No, I actually like DickPlay ports.
(Tho I think we should be using open standard ports overall.)
Lol @ 1am
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).
HDMI royalties are disgusting
There are DisplayPort cables that don’t have the latch if you prefer them.
DisplayPort as a standard is free of charge and better in every way. AFAIK, it can handle multiple 8K monitors without issues provided your GPU is strong enough.
