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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not the same without two little screws jangling about

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I had fuckin bent pins and pins falling out of my vga connector. I had to straighten them and align them. Good times.

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[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait...

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 years ago

You Villain!

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes officer. This post over here.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, seriously, why am I offended. This is offensive to me.

[–] funnyboy_roks@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably because the screws can’t be used!

Just gonna have to 3d print a phone case with the corresponding threads, I guess.

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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago (8 children)

this is the most comments I've seen on lemmy. now i know the community I'm in. God help me.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There was a thread this week about Biden's achievements and it got at least 600 comments haha.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice! I can definitely see how that would stir the pot. I've had a lot of good discussion on Lemmy, I really enjoy it.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like it here too. It's smaller, nicer than... That other, silly place.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

What, you an HDMI guy? Son, we charge our laptops with VGA cables

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[–] Metans@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A power plug, but the three-prong ones like we have in the UK. The two lower prongs would appear to be plugged into the phone, and the top prong would just hover uselessly above the phone.

Bonus points for following the shape of the plug properly and having the cable come out of the bottom of the wall wart, so the phone can never lat down flat while it's charging.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

This is evil. I love it.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's brilliant. Do you have .stls available for that?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

An ethernet cable that's actually wired for a serial port

looks at network hardware vendors

[–] droans@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like someone accidentally used the wrong port a few times.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

That's what she said?

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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've seen a few renditions of this one so far:

[–] uis@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At first I thought it was great standard connector. It turns out to be non-standard garbage.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

You have to buy a million dollar iPod to use it.

[–] denast@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (27 children)

Side note, does anyone know some sort of cable sleeve similar to this that instead grabs onto the device and stabilizes the port?

As much as I like type-C, the ports on my laptop have worn down significantly and aren't always stable

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Depends on what you mean by stable.

It's likely dust in the port. If you gently clean it out with a toothpick or other small flat instrument you will get it to seat better. If dust is the issue, you should see some lint at the bottom of the port.

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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Personally I have the opinion that usb-c should be a connector for mobile devices only and there should be something with the size of a type a or b for stationary stuff. The size makes the connector too flimsy

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[–] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I would want an RJ45 charger.

[–] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Why two different and incompatible options?

Or, more generally, why can't I ever read some USB spec and get out with less questions than I had in the beginning?

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

Probably for the same reason why they decided to rename USB 3.0.

I guess they had a liquor cabinet in the room where they held their meeting

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

Because for some reason, the USBIF has been hit over and over again with the stupid stick ever since USB2 came out.

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The single screw version looks wrong somehow.

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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Terrible ideas:

  • Garden hose
  • NEMA 10-50 - each "prong" could be a different connector
  • CCS
  • USB-A
  • Quick-connect air coupler
[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The first one reminds me of this classic

cable with an HDMI connector on one end, and a water hose connector on the other

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[–] Crow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A 24 pin mobo power connector just to strike ptsd into those who notice.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

That is a work of art.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

You inspired at least one print. Thankfully, I have blue filament on hand!

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

VGA was a standard though, wasn't it?

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Hey, I'd buy it. Maybe, I mean money is pretty tight.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

V G A! V G A!

VGA master race.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

One of those big old audio jacks. Bonus points for use of metal and leaving a good chunk of it ‘sticking out’.

[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I just cut up an old VGA cable to make some of these tonight. Surprisingly not that hard to take apart. I'll need to use my dremel to cut the screws off of their little blue thumb grips so I can glue them on.

[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wanna see scart with a usbc

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