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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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