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.
I think they’re scalies?
Pokemon PMD fans
I think its “Scalies” or something as in scales instead of fur
Scalies
I thought that was just like a meme term. I didn’t realise reptile furries actually called themselves that
To fully understand, I believe this video is very… uhm, “educative”? Scalie Squad vs. Furry Force (very NSFW) by college humor
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
I’ve been in the community for a while and somehow haven’t heard the term avian, thx for sharing!
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).
There are DisplayPort cables that don’t have the latch if you prefer them.
HDMI royalties are disgusting
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.
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.
I gotta confess, as an IT guy I have never ever seen displayport in my life. Not a port, nor a cable. Which is especially weird given that I have 6 displays hooked up that technically use it without a single actual port.
I don’t think you should have been downvoted, but what is it you do? Remote monitoring? We deployed hundreds of monitors last summer and I swear I almost memorized the goddamn DisplayPort pinout.
Are you sure you know what displayport is?
Yeah. It’s a video interface but I have never seen the physical port, as I’ve said I have 6 monitors hooked using it’s signalling protocol, but all the physical connections are either type-c(DP alt mode) or eDP.
This is statistically impossible, unless “IT guy” just means “computer nerd” rather than someone who works in an IT role.
Most GPUs and monitors made in last 5 years have at least one.
Every single monitor I’ve seen that’s built in the last 8ish years has at least one. All modern graphics cards do too. Are you sure you’ve not seen them?
Just checked, there are still brand new monitors on the market with just VGA+HDMI (e.g. MSI MP223, DELL SE2722H), but you’d really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel nowadays to find one. I think I actually might have a GPU with one of those lying around somewhere, thought, but does it even count if I never used one?
Fair enough. I just thought it had become pretty ubiquitous in the desktop ecosystem, just because HDMI licencing fees are egregious
They thought that was for Double Penetration.
If you’ve never seen that before, I’ve heard the internet has a lot of videos you can check out
Have you never seen a discrete GPU as an IT guy? A monitor? I kind of doubt you’re in IT if not.
Have you bought a single monitor in the past 5 years or so? Mine all have hdmi and DP.
Yeah, MP Trios and glance which are type c only, latter also having hdmi. Though last time I dealt with desktop equipment I think was within 5 years but the pieces were probably more than 5 years old, think those were xiaomi a1’s and some random chineese FHD panels, with either 1650 or 1050 cards when we’ve built some budget workstations. I swear I didn’t try to avoid DP, just got lucky to deal with last pieces of equipment without it, and working remote on laptops got me severely out of touch with modern hardware.
No, I actually like DickPlay ports.
(Tho I think we should be using open standard ports overall.)
It DisplayDePorts your silicon.
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
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.
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.
Vga even worse
Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?
99% of the people out there
I think this number is far too high.
Me too but what can you do? I can’t remember ever seeing a non techie using tech hardware in the right way.
That explains the elections
The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”
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
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
dis playport, dis not dinosaur
Dis no saur*
But it’s dis nuts
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
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.
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.
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.
skill issue
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.
uh. what is that?
The severed remains of a DP cable, sill attached to the port.
jesus christ, add an NSFL tag to that
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.
subscribed!
DisplayPort connector stuck in socket I think
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.
Hear hear! Glad someone recognizes we’re not all barbarians who wreck anything we touch
:[‘
Back in my day you would rip your arm off before the cable breaks.
China to the rescue, a good tug and they peel like a banana now
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?
It has two teeth like things and usually a barely noticeable “button” to press to release.
My rule of thumb for technology is “don’t force it”. If it doesn’t come out with a light pull that’s when the flashlight comes out and I start inspecting. This rule doesn’t always work, though. Sometimes it takes the strength of 10 gorillas to put RAM in and I’m always scared to push harder.
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
Red power receptacles. Was this at a hospital?
My first thought.
When the engineers specifically design a connector to never disconnect accidentally, they shouldn’t be surprised by people who take it as a challenge.
Design something sensible, then go over it again and redesign it with stupid and stubborn users in mind. Probably this is how things should go.
This photo is so stressful
Tension, mostly
You can absolutely feel the stress of the stress.
Table? Naw, cable.
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You make it sound like they can afford modern hardware.
I just never bothered with the screws, some cables even came without them.
I always gave them half a courtesy turn
