The VGA standard will outlive humanity. When the last star finally dies, VGA will be there hanging out with the cockroaches and X11.
And VGA has the advantage of not having integrated DRM in it.
Oh and I believe you forgot IRC.
Not to mention the countless different bandwidth versions of today’s cables. With VGA, if it’s not 15-pin it’s 14-pin.
I haven’t even seen a VGA connector in over a decade. What are you using that you still see them?
I work at a university with several hundred classroom computers. They don’t get upgraded in any kind of timely manner. Until last year, over a hundred of them still used hard drives. About half of them have HDMI or DP sockets, but the monitors don’t, and they’ll stay until they’re no longer functional at all.
We are in a bit of a bind because Windows 11 support is questionable and replacing even a few classrooms is a massive investment.
Ah, makes sense. I still have 2 spinning hard drives in my desktop. I just move them over whenever I build a new desktop. I’ve been thinking about buying a few more NVMe drives and getting rid of the old spinners once and for all, but NVMe drives above 1 TB are a serious investment, and these spinners are 5 TB each.
All (3) university computer labs I’ve been to had Linux, why would you use Windows for uni? Most lessons should be relatively program agnostic right?
Do you really think we haven’t explored that option? My dream is to set up a nix or ansible script to automate the entire process. 95% of the applications required by the teachers have Linux releases. It’s the remaining 5% that prevent it. Some applications depend on Hyper-V virtualization. Others run fine through Wine on my idealized test machine, but I’m not taking that risk in the highly heterogenous, outdated classrooms. Many of the classes are specialized courses about a particular vendor’s systems that are far from plug-and-play on the best day, and we can’t force them to rewrite the course for Linux.
Most of our teachers are jaded old fucks from a mathematics background. Some are friends of the dean. They bitch and complain if they can’t use their favourite Java IDE, and I dread to imagine what would happen if they had to adapt to a different desktop environment.
Many of our students have never seen a computer that wasn’t a smartphone and have issues navigating Windows. I had to help a teacher once because the students couldn’t even type
qtdesignerinto a terminal.Besides, we don’t have three computer labs, we have 30, and all of them must be configured the same (or as close as possible) because we don’t have any input about which class is held where.
That’s why we use Windows.
I feel really bad for your IT department.
Our IT “department” is two people and I’m one of them.
That’s about what I expected. Do you at least have a central management system for the computers?
Physical servers.
Old VGA monitors
My old screen only has a DVI port but old screens do seem like a likely suspect otherwise most likely serial ports on servers (though if I understand correctly that’s not VGA but just uses the same cables).
DVI port
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard for a very long time.
I need a goddamn stereo Y cord. I had one that i kept since I’m was 15. I managed to bring in a box with every move.
Now it’s gone. No clue where it is. And I can’t find one around me anywhere. I’m getting upset just thinking about it.
This everything now.
“I need to get my [specific thing].”
10m later . . .
“Shit. Where is it?”
Someone should start a mutual aid org based on supplying unused cables to those who need one. This way, we can all be further justified in keeping our rats nest of cables, guilt free.
Beautiful idea. Name it Junk Drawer Unlimited and it’ll be a hit in no time.
Like a salvation army, but for cords and other junk drawer things.
The revolution began, not with a bang, but with the crack of a Rubbermaid® bin…
The revolution cannot be televised - without the right cord!
The mistake you made wasn’t clearing your drawer, it was not keeping 1 of them.
Exactly this. I just cleaned out my stash and saved 90% of the space by just keeping one of each possible cord.
I recently purged cables.
I then needed a mini usb that was in the recycle pile.
I refused to buy one out of spite.
I spent $18 for a VGA cable at Best Buy last night only to find out that my server was fine and I needed to reboot my PC for the SSH to resolve properly.
What a clown. The older shit is the most valuable stuff, the older cables are almost the entire god damn reason for the cable box!
Cable drawer?
Cable closet.
4 tier filing cabinet myself. Just the skinny ones though.
Amateur. I can throw stuff away two weeks before I need it.
That’s why I braid my old av cables into floggers. They’re getting used and if I end up needing an S-Video cable it’s just an unwind away.
You appear to lead an interesting life, friend!
My nightmare is the recurring memory of having my ureter stent extracted after passing a kidney stone and then having to clean up all the blood myself. Then pissing blood for the next few days. I’m getting all anxious just thinking about it again now.
Please folks, get your kidney stones taken care of before they become large enough to require a stent. It’s 100x worse.
Rookie mistake. Never throw out the thing.
This is why you always keep one
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I have a three screen setup with piecemeal monitors I’ve collected, and each uses a different cable type. Had to get an adapter for one (I think display port to vga, I forget now) to make it work with one video card. But it works great.
I’ve had similar issues with other things. Wife finally convinced me to throw something out (can’t even recall what) and a few weeks later we needed it. I just looked at her, and she said “don’t even say it”.
Amazon. Ten bucks.
Now everybody list less shitty places to get them, because that’s information we all should have.
Local computer shop if there are any around you, chain store like microcenter, or online using monoprice was good before it was acquired by private equity I think around 2013. Maybe Newegg? Are they terrible yet?
