when I ask a client if their monitor is plugged in this is what they see
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@puppygirlhornypost2 Do you have any idea what those cables are for?
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It’s the only way I can explain the fact that despite there being literally like 4 cables (hdmi, usb mouse, usb keyboard, power) in the back of our computers in the computer lab one of the teachers is like "HELPP ITS ALL UNPLUGGED IDK WHERE ANYTHING GOES"
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@[email protected] yes. I stole the image from a Reddit post. https://www.instruomodular.com/product/scion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1i20lit/what_am_i_looking_at_here_never_seen_a_back_look/ (shakes head with disappointment at the name of the subreddit)
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Having worked tech support for a long time in the past, the conclusion I came to is that there is a certain type of person who somehow takes the internal thought of "I don't know anything about computers" as an attribute and mutates it into "I cannot know anything about computers" as a directive, and that's when things like selective literacy and the inability to put a round connector into a round socket suddenly come into play.I wouldn't need a job anymore if I could take a nickel for each of the times I'd had the exchange of: "Click the Start button" "I don't have that" "What do you see in the lower left hand corner of your screen?" "It says 'Start'."
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@[email protected] i mean it's learned helplessness. you can hear it in their voice. they're not just lazy, they just straight up refuse to listen to sense. they will freak out and panic over a cable not appearing in the right place. there's this one teacher that does this to me constantly. "OMG - THE COMPUTER IS BROKEN IT SAYS
RECOVERYON IT I NEED YOU TO FIX IT RIGHT NOW NOW NOW" and it's like the basic windows "your computer did not shut down correctly" -
@puppygirlhornypost2 You know those giant CAD systems from the 80s with a couple of huge CRTs built into a desk that's all sketchpad surface, etc.? The ports on some of those computers are bizarre:
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@davefischer @puppygirlhornypost2 Wait, that row of connectors on the left -- I'm guessing maybe monopole even -- is that really actually how they did it? Literally connecting up each signal to a separate individual wire to be plugged in individually?
Most of the rest I think I can sort of figure out (ish) except I'm curious what "coils out" would be.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @davefischer @puppygirlhornypost2 A lot of older professional equipment had separate vertical sync, horizontal sync, red, green and blue cables. Usually with BNC connectors though.
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@arachromatics @davefischer @puppygirlhornypost2 Oh I got that part. Heck, many later video connections still effectively did this, just they used a cable with a multi-pin connector instead of individual wires.
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@[email protected] I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS IS
THIS IS IN THE BANGKOK ART EXHIBITION CENTRE, IT CONTROLS A ROBOT THAT PAINTS
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@EndlessMason @arachromatics @davefischer @puppygirlhornypost2 Separating them out into individual wires actually decreases overall shielding. Nothing beats twisted pair (which you'll find inside any decent monitor cable after you cut away the outer shielding if you're cruel enough to cut one open.)
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@nazokiyoubinbou @EndlessMason @arachromatics @puppygirlhornypost2 Pretty sure those are all coax. I can take a closer look at it tomorrow and check.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @EndlessMason @arachromatics @puppygirlhornypost2 Yeah, bunch of tiny coaxial connectors.
