Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:46AM
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For HDMI you have lots of options that provide EDID emulation. For DP there's only one game in town and it costs more than most computers.
Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
by Aardwolf on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:29AM
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Given that GPU cards tend to have more DP ports than HDMI ports, why might that be? Why don't makers of KVM switches follow the same preference as GPU's do? (or vice versa. Why do we have two standards anyway)
Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
by mostlysimilar on Sunday February 11, 2024 @12:56PM
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You don't feel skeptical of products from a company called "GREATHTEK-More Convenient"? I am far too paranoid to plug random technology like that into my computers. It makes shopping for such things on Amazon nearly impossible.
Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
by jnk345u8dfg9hjk on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:22AM
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What could they do hypothetically? They don't have network access to phone home, do they?
I did have a considerably more expensive TESmart [1] but couldn't use it because it had some weird incompatibility between it, thunderbolt docking station [2] I used with it (which also work flawlessly), and the MBPs connected to it. I could never figure out why, even raising the issue to support with no luck.
My two cents.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08N494N7X
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HR3T837