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Ancient Relic: The VGA Port
Hardware Post #5924, on Mar 1, 2024 in TG

Ancient Relic: The VGA Port

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This is a close-up, high-resolution photograph of a standard 15-pin VGA (Video Graphics Array) port, mounted on a piece of black, textured electronic equipment. The port's connector is bright blue and features a trapezoidal shape with three rows of pinholes. It is flanked by two hexagonal, silver-colored screw-in sockets used to secure the cable. The image evokes a sense of nostalgia for older technology. For experienced developers, this isn't just a port; it's a throwback to an era before digital video interfaces like HDMI and DisplayPort became standard. It brings back memories of troubleshooting analog signal issues, dealing with bent pins, and the distinct satisfaction of physically securing a display cable. The image's humor lies in its representation of now-obsolete but once-ubiquitous technology

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The VGA port: where you learned that the solution to a flickering screen wasn't a software patch, but tightening a screw just a little bit more
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The VGA port: where you learned that the solution to a flickering screen wasn't a software patch, but tightening a screw just a little bit more

  2. Anonymous

    Spotting a VGA port on a brand-new server is like finding a CORBA stub in your microservice repo: proof that ‘temporary backwards compatibility’ outlives entire engineering teams

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years in tech, I've learned that VGA ports are like COBOL - everyone says they're dead, yet somehow they're still running critical infrastructure and showing up in every conference room where you desperately need to present your microservices architecture deck

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the VGA port - where 'plug and pray' was the actual connection protocol, and you'd tighten those thumbscrews like you were securing the nuclear codes, only to realize you had it upside down. This analog relic reminds us of an era when 'display driver issues' meant physically jiggling the cable, and 1024x768 at 60Hz was considered 'high resolution.' Now it sits there like a museum piece, silently judging your 4K DisplayPort setup while enterprise KVM switches everywhere weep for its simplicity

  5. Anonymous

    It’s the hardware equivalent of an “open” API: lots of endpoints, none align with the spec

  6. Anonymous

    Enterprise backward compatibility in hardware: a VGA port where we just kept drilling holes until every legacy adapter fit - basically our API, but with screws

  7. Anonymous

    VGA on a 2024 server: because nothing screams 'mission-critical' like negotiating ghosting artifacts during a 3AM outage

  8. dev_meme 2y

    bruh

  9. @slyveek 2y

    Bruh

  10. @slyveek 2y

    Look again on it

  11. @Sava_SKk 2y

    bruh

  12. @Daler_XYZ 2y

    Ok, more points then usual, but it’s not funny

    1. @SamsonovAnton 2y

      There are 3 display icons above this connector, so this might be some new VGA HD (for "high density") connector, sharing the same DE form factor as the original "high density" HD-15 video port.

  13. @leandrofriedrich 2y

    auer

  14. Deleted Account 2y

    Someone told me where his sense of humor lies?

  15. @Similacrest 2y

    My profile pic for years

  16. @Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

    I shouldn't stick it in... on the other hand-

  17. @elonmasc_official 2y

    Omg, my τριποφοβία is getting high

    1. @callofvoid0 2y

      what do you mean by tripophobia?

      1. @gdfngue4ui3 2y

        phobia of big amount of holes

        1. @pixelsex 2y

          one man's phobia is another man's fetish

          1. @AmindaEU 2y

            https://red.artemislena.eu/r/submechanophobia - there is just something satisfying about sunken machines especially when technology is being particularly nasty although it's probably not that great for the environment

            1. @pixelsex 2y

              subnautica was the best game ever

  18. @AmindaEU 2y

    Is this AI or has something eaten it?

  19. @bza_bza 2y

    My gosh so repulsive

  20. @azizhakberdiev 2y

    Holes sometimes might not be specifically terrifying, but unpleasant sight for anyone indeed

  21. @DenDrobiazko 2y

    Just google images "tripophobia" and understand

  22. @Supuhstar 2y

    bubbles,,,

  23. Ølеґsîū 🪬🕍🪬 2y

    I'd say it's little short of being qualified to be called "phobia", rather it's an instinctive brain reaction to disturbance. No one really gets scared of things riddled with holes, there's countless natural and artificial things like that. What actually confuses your brain is a representation of this "phobia" on humans, you feel something very wrong and in confusion can't understand what, so the closest feeling that your brain chooses is either fear towards something that inflicted such "horrible" condition or disgust of how it looks like. So to make you specifically afraid of seen pictures, their authors usually add little something inside holes to make your imagination run wild thinking how it becomes like that. By the way as a child I once fell into a pile of little stones for asphalt and my friend fell on me, so one of my elbows got a bunch of wounds, some of them went deep and I have about 11 little scars left.🗿

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