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)?
Explain?
The HDMI consortium are shitheads who demand royalties, and all Linux PCs are gimped to not have modern HDMI features because of it.
and all Linux PCs are gimped to not have modern HDMI features because of it.
Isn’t the issue with open sourcing their code, and so for example Nvidia closed source drivers support everything?
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This play port is superior and is what is used on most high-end GPUs.
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Are there many people that care about “high fidelity gaming” and HDMI features Linux can’t support - AND trying to play on a standard TV?
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A big reason why Linux is popping off as much as it is lately, is because of HTPCs, so yes
I have a TV with every input including VGA. It is for gaming only at this point.
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.
I did. Because something in me just won’t let something not be secured properly if a mechanism for it exists.
Sometimes you want it to disconnect instead of pull everything down with it if something gets caught on a wire.
Like a cat
I hear you, I just can’t do it. Though all the slack is zip-tied away, albeit messily.
Oh no. Run those cables sloppy free like a 90s cyberpunk rat’s nest.
Exactly how god intended
Extra points for the hair dust bunnies on top of the power strip
The curse of the furry babies, cat hair everywhere lmao
This is the logic of most ports. It’s more expensive to replace the thing the cable is being plugged into than the cable. So you want the cable to fail from force first and leave the hardware undamaged.
Agreed. What mad man didn’t at least think “I’ll screw them in just a bit so it doesn’t fall out” and then just continue screwing it in all the way because of course you might as well finish.
Only time I didn’t screw it in was when I was using a monitor temporarily or something. Something I knew I’d just unplug later that day.
Did people really just plug in VGA to their computer and then leave in unscrewed for months at a time? That shit would fall out if I bumped into my desk too hard.
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
Mine’s been pretty stable but I also don’t screw with my cables much once everything is in place
You’re sneezing pretty hard out there buck-o
i am but also the cable sucked lemon balls. i got old man sneezeosis
Fun fact: The connector is called a DE-15, VGA is just the protocol using it in this application.
Not anymore it isn’t
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.
Fuck HDMI. All my homies use Displayport!
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
I don’t think hanging a CPU with a cable like that is a good thing.
How else is data pressure supposed to flow?
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.
it’s the displayport that’s giving me trouble, not the hdmi.
Look at that thing hang, man it’s big.
Add the Displayport! Which doesn’t even allow hot-swapping, I keep needing to turn my computer off…
I have never encounter a DisplayPort device that doesn’t support hot swap. From the early days, all the way to the latest and greatest they all support it.
I’ve never had this issue, could be a driver thing, but it’s not common.
