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VGA connectors were incredibly irritating to deal with, especially since so many of them were equipped with smooth screwing bolts with very little area to spin
by rezonant 3y ago
VGA connectors were incredibly irritating to deal with, especially since so many of them were equipped with smooth screwing bolts with very little area to spin them with your fingers. I for one don't miss this.
- rightbyte 3y agoIf you wanted to have quick insert connection you could just not tighten the screws. I almost never tightened the screws, but it was good on monitors which were pivoting. I am writing this on a screen where the HDMI connector pops out if a even touch it.
- JohnFen 3y agoHonestly, I have never tightened those screws.
- kalium-xyz 3y agoJust tighten one of them, its what i do half the time
- xvilka 3y agoAnd other half of the time you tighten another?
- kalium-xyz 3y agoYes :P. I’m a coward and never put it in without tightening at least one or both
- IYasha 3y agoI drilled two holes in my laptop as it had no room for VGA cable screws :D (about 2y ago)
- wongarsu 3y ago> I am writing this on a screen where the HDMI connector pops out if a even touch it. Just one more reason to switch to DisplayPort. The only downside of DisplayPort over VGA is that it's up to the connector model if it locks, not user input; but other than that DisplayPort seems clearly superior over VGA. Apart from the obvious signal improvements, slightly more compact design and the recessed port, even an non-locking cable sits far more securely than an unsecured VGA cable.
- neuromanser 3y agoIf I had to choose between a disconnection and damaged circuitry… I managed to pull too strongly on a DisplayPort cable plugged into monitor, resulting in broken PCB. Luckily, the HDMI wasn't affected.
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- KineticLensman 3y agoSome of them actually had an end slot that could be tightened / untightened by a regular screwdriver It took me ages to realise this.
- Symbiote 3y agoIn the 1980s and presumably before, plugs like this often only had screws you needed a screwdriver to tighten. I don't know if this was to prevent people disconnecting things, or if the expectation was that once connected, things should stay that way for years.
- KineticLensman 3y agoIt helped me a lot when I had a colleague who had a strong workman's hands and who could not be found at the end of presentations where he had set up the projector's cabling.