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
As someone who has skinned his knuckles a thousand times and more, reaching behind equipment to try and loosen a VGA screw, fuck that. I won’t even abide those DisplayPort locking cables with the button. It should just pull out.
Quite happy not having to screw it out and in.
DP is already quite hard to press some of the times in narrow areas.
Those two screws on the VGA block are tough
I had a mobo one time that just gave up and the stand offs just screwed off with the cable. Shrug
Look at that thing hang, man it’s big.
Fuck HDMI. All my homies use Displayport!
Man, I miss those. Talk about enshittification lol
We need to make screws on ports great again.
What’s kind of amusing is that all those old ports with the screw-in fasteners were moving around anywhere from 3v to 12v at about 45mA on the high-side. Meanwhile, USB-C can move 240W and has nothing to prevent disconnecting while sending enough power to run a power tool.
It’s even allowed to be randomly unplugged while delivering maximum power
hold on, I have something for this
FOUND IT
The primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.
And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.
Every time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.
displayport is the modern successor to vga.
I wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It’s superior in every way.
HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.
It’s superior in every way.
Not every way, it doesn’t do audio. That’s really the only downside.
That’s incorrect. DP has had audio (up to 8 channels, 24bit@192kHz) since 1.0, nowadays it supports up to 32 channels and 1536kHz sample rate. Wikipedia has the official standards PDFs linked.
I stand corrected
HMDI can also do ethernet, which is very convenient. If you have two devices that support it.
And pass remote control inputs
and it also has a locking mechanism!
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…
The port is great.
Device manufacturers putting said port deep in the bowels of Erebus where no mortal man could hope to actuate the locking mechanism is less great.
So what the fuck is wrong with mine? If I sneeze I have to take it out and Nintendo it
You’re sneezing pretty hard out there buck-o
i am but also the cable sucked lemon balls. i got old man sneezeosis
Probably a low quality cable
Mine’s been pretty stable but I also don’t screw with my cables much once everything is in place
I don’t think hanging a CPU with a cable like that is a good thing.
How else is data pressure supposed to flow?
…but where am I supposed to find another cart in this 50 million dollar hospital?
Nah, it is all about safety.
If you triple over a stretched HDMI cable it will safely disconnect.
If you triple over a stretched VGA cable… Well, may God save you and your monitor.
skill issue
You’re right, having problems with the HDMI staying in IS a skill issue.
usually I dont have any cables lying around to trip over too.
MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS ELECTRICAL SIGNALS INTO COLORED PIXELS. YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME, MORTAL. DON’T TREAD ON ME.
If you triple over a stretched HDMI cable it will safely disconnect.
If you triple over a stretched VGA cable… Well, may God save you and your monitor.
Like 3 plugs in the same port? How do you even accomplish that?
Hah this guy doesn’t know how to use the three plugs
Well you see when 3 men love a woman very much…
I’m listening. This sounds like a story my grammy used to tell me.
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.
I remember wondering as a kid why those plugs needed to be screwed in like that. It seemed ridiculously overengineered.
No hotplugging back then. If you pulled out the plug, gotta reboot. Idk if anything worse could happen, like damage to the hardware.
The pixels come out otherwise.
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…
Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.
I don’t know why I kept tightening them. I never found myself in a situation where the connector was falling out if they were left unscrewed.
Fun fact: The connector is called a DE-15, VGA is just the protocol using it in this application.
Not anymore it isn’t
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.
For that reason VGAs could make really good grappling hooks. 😂
The RJ plugs are my least favourite. Still snags but the plastic bit that snags is feeble enough to break off easily, and then the plug doesn’t have anything holding it in to the port. And those covers usually make it harder to fit it through holes intended for ethernet cables as well as make it harder to unclip it from the port.
Like the Cisco switch that needed to be recalled due to the placement of it’s reset button.Which model did this?
There’s really no excuse for that one
What about the slightly larger bonuses that quarter for the executives who had the outside-the-box and paradigm-shifting bright idea to eliminate the V&V department? HUH?
There’s probably a dusty old Ferrari buried in some retired rich guy’s 7th garage, and all the world had to suffer for it was a few fucked up networks here and there and losing the respect of IT people all over the place.
HDMI also has a leaky hack
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/07/pulling-data-from-hdmi-rf-leakage/
I mean… you have been able to do things like that for a long time. You used to be able to use cable toners to listen to conversations on analog phone lines for instance.
Hell, toner and probe is still a common diagnostic tool for telecom engineers.
it’s the displayport that’s giving me trouble, not the hdmi.
Is it a fair comparison when VGA plugs came with screws pretty much by default? I think I have seen HDMI cables like that too, but if so then it is a much rarer find.
“Not all hdmi”
