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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by rezonant on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:52AM (#38331013)
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.
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by rightbyte on Sunday November 19, 2023 @05:28AM (#38331264)
If 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.

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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by kalium-xyz on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:13AM (#38331549)
Just tighten one of them, its what i do half the time
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by xvilka on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:36AM (#38331671)
And other half of the time you tighten another?
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by kalium-xyz on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:51AM (#38331771)
Yes :P. I’m a coward and never put it in without tightening at least one or both
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by IYasha on Sunday November 19, 2023 @08:07AM (#38332324)
I drilled two holes in my laptop as it had no room for VGA cable screws :D (about 2y ago)
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by wongarsu on Sunday November 19, 2023 @08:35AM (#38332515)
> 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.

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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by neuromanser on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:16PM (#38336625)
If 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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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by JohnFen on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:15AM (#38348490)
Honestly, I have never tightened those screws.
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by KineticLensman on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:46AM (#38331738)
Some of them actually had an end slot that could be tightened / untightened by a regular screwdriver It took me ages to realise this.
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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by Symbiote on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:08AM (#38333924)
In 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.

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Re:Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021) by KineticLensman on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:09PM (#38335653)
It 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.
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