sjvn,
@sjvn@mastodon.social avatar

Say what you will about VGA cables, once you had them properly connected, they were Not coming out.

ziltoidium,
@ziltoidium@23.social avatar

@sjvn

sjvn,
@sjvn@mastodon.social avatar

@ziltoidium I had several of those over the years.

aprazeth,
@aprazeth@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn "Fun" personal fact: during a break-in, they stole my DVD's, monitors, laptop, everything else EXCEPT my PC that still had the cables in a big bundle attached to each other and around a table-leg (the leg was shaped as an inverted T and the table was on top)

2 of the cables still attached were the VGA-cables. So yes, 2 VGA cables prevented the theft of my PC at the time.

So I've never ever complained too much about these connectors since 😉

KuroeNekoDemon,
@KuroeNekoDemon@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn That just gives me anxiety tho about it potentially falling, breaking, data loss and $$$$ bill. I'm going to scroll past now and keep using HDMI

sjvn,
@sjvn@mastodon.social avatar

@KuroeNekoDemon I can safely assure you that that connector was Not going to fail.

nrmacdonald,
@nrmacdonald@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn
⬆️ my psyche

timrichards,
@timrichards@aus.social avatar

@sjvn I had to just about chisel one out of the back of an old TV recently

photovince,
@photovince@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn This physically hurts

nf3xn,
@nf3xn@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn Came with a free game of guess which one is the only one screwed in.

adacosta,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@sjvn We are still finding them in the environment. Unscrewing them is a PITA. I make carry a flathead with me whenever I get a monitor not working ticket.

sjvn,
@sjvn@mastodon.social avatar

@adacosta Oh yeah, I've seen them too. For that matter, this isn't my photo but I've seen a couple hanging just like this.

impossibleibex,

@sjvn probably properly screwed

tokensane,
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@sjvn Alt text: a computer system box hangs against a wall, suspended by a VGA cable.

franchesko,

@sjvn just seeing this gives me terminal anxiety!

ratkins,
@ratkins@mastodon.social avatar

@franchesko What you did there, I see it 😆

PJ_Evans,
@PJ_Evans@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn
Those screws really were good at that.

jqheywood,
@jqheywood@mastodon.social avatar

@sjvn The strain on that cable makes the old sysadmin in me cry. At least it's not 10Base-2 network cable upstream from the majority of the LAN (if you know, you know)

sjvn,
@sjvn@mastodon.social avatar

@jqheywood I still have some 10Base-2 T-connectors but I finally got rid of my last vampire taps.

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@sjvn is that in a hospital?

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