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[–] [email protected] 180 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And when pulling it out from the mess of cables

[–] Bytemeister 21 points 10 months ago

Or when your're trying to feed that fucker back through the passthrough on a desk.

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Left side: Unscrews from the standoff. Right side: Unscrews the standoff from the IO plate.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You have to tighten the loose one to loosen the tight one. My fingers hurt just looking at it

[–] motor_spirit 41 points 10 months ago

you a director yet? that's gandalf level wisdom

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Amen to this....or just say fuck it and break out the screwdriver

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You mean that thing I set down right there but has somehow transitioned into a different dimension?

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[–] Zachariah 100 points 10 months ago

Best part is when this sucker unscrews from the port and comes off with the cable:

[–] Siegfried 67 points 10 months ago

The actual retro problem was when those tighty boys would start unscrewing the port instead of themselves

[–] jeffw 63 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Pretty sure the little slit was so that you could use a flathead screwdriver. Had to do that a couple times

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

......... aaaaaand there goes the infinitesimally tiny nut inside the case

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

clatter click ... oh no....

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Then one side of the driver notch shears off

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

those slots were near useless.

edit to say: one trick was to use the blank expansion slot plates to gently break the vice like grip the screw had in the hex stand-off. the metal used on the cheap "digit remover" cases was sometimes soft enough to loosen the thumb screws via the driver slot without the thumb screw breaking.

still nearly useless though.

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[–] Mozingo 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This happens because the connector is at an angle. Since it's at an angle, the screw presses against the side and jams itself in place. All you have to do is tilt the connector the other direction and the tight screw loosens right up. Easy peasy.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago

This would have been really good for me to know about 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] UckyBon 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Retro problem? I used a DVI connector on my monitor until December last year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yep, you are retro

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[–] inclementimmigrant 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that never tightened them?

[–] SuperApples 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tighten them and it saved my monitor! Robbers broke in to our house, stole a bunch of stuff. The computer monitor was still there, connected to the computer, dangling from the table.

How do I know they tried to steal it? Because they tried to cut through the cable with PAPER SCISSORS, because they didn't know how to unscrew the cables.

I feel sorry for the dumb robbers. I hope they didn't pawn it and are still enjoying playing Wii Fitness without the balance board, which they neglected to take with the console.

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[–] judooochp 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

GPIB users and instrumentation automating folks know the problem is very modern.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

also, both stripped somehow?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still have a DVI monitor connected to my main pc, so it's not that much of a retro problem for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (16 children)

I like DVI. I prefer it most of the time.

I like the screw in connector because I don't have to worry about it falling out of the PC or monitor, and it is more robust, less likely to be pulled/bent/broken.

Unfortunately, even monitor vendors don't seem to agree that DVI was/is good, and I've seen a lot of displays shipping without it recently. GPU makers have entirely gone to displayport/HDMI. It's the end of an era, as far as I'm concerned.

I've switched almost entirely to DP, since I can't get DVI anything anymore. I don't hate DP. I like it more than the friction fit HDMI which is prone to pulling itself out of the port for no good reason just as your opponent is about to come around the corner and all you can do is stare at yourself in the black mirror that your monitor has become and listen in horror as fartmaster69420 frags you again, bragging about it and telling you that you suck, and how he does unspeakable things to your mother over VC in his prepubescent voice.

Anyways. I miss DVI.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

At least they had screws? I dont trust HDMI or even worse USB-C. Still using VGA monitors with adapters, never broke a single plug.

[–] ultranaut 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I sort of miss the screws too but it's so much better when a cable accidentally gets yanked and it just comes right out instead of transmitting the force into whatever it's attached to.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Good news, USB-C has two formats with screws: 1 on either side like VGA or 1 on top. Though I've never seen them in real life.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

Why are you using VGA when DVI-D exists? Or Displayport for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Because VGA used to be a standard and all monitors I had lying around are VGA only

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I dealt with this yesterday

[–] NickwithaC 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry to tell you that was 20 years ago.

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[–] dejected_warp_core 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All I can say is that we are fortunate that the overlap between "VGA ports everywhere" and "battery operated impact drivers" is almost zero on the timeline. Imagine trying to unscrew a VGA plug by hand that was tightened down to ugga-dugga-foot-pounds of torque. Of course that assumes that didn't shear the screws first.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why is there an orange dot on the plug?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone accidentally tapped before/after drawing those arrows.

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[–] Persen 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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