Who unplugs a cable by pulling on the wire?
Dude, it’s a dinosaur using a computer. Cut him some slack.
Had this at my company some time ago. People just don’t understand retention mechanisms I don’t think
when your main stat is strength, and you’ve entirely ignored int/wis
Seriously though, if the cable doesn’t want to come out with reasonable force, the solution is PROBABLY NOT to apply more force. What kind of cavemen do you have working there?
cavemen
Worse. University students.
I’m a sysadmin at a university. Last semester, we lost five DP cables, two DP-VGA adapters, one graphics card, and one motherboard to these acts of barbarism. Plus the non-DP stuff – keyboards with missing or broken keys, mice with buttons bent out or just smashed to bits, RS232 connectors broken because they forgot to unscrew them, all kinds of USB cables cracked at the connector because students unplug them to use with their own laptops and plug them back into the front IO creating a nice little 180° bend, countless ethernet cables ripped out of the motherboard, stolen equipment, monitors that were straight up broken off their stands…
Calling them “cavemen” is an insult to cavemen.
You know they make displayport cables without the clips, right?
Why do they even make them with the clips? If someone trips on a cable or something, and there’s no clip, it’s a mild inconvenience to plug it back in. If it’s clipped, you can bring the whole computer crashing down!
Cable strength. Loose cabling can cause contact and thus signal issues
I did not know this. Are they allowed by the spec?
Fuck the spec.
Well it’s about time my flowerbed got some fresh pixels
But less evil than the HDMI fees.
