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Milk Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This joke would have fucking slayed in 1998.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    1998: That would be a waste of a perfectly good cable. Never know when you might need it, so it goes in the box with the others.

    2023: The fuck are all these cables for? I’ll make a meme… but only with one. Never know when you might need the others.

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    • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I put them in in Parallel

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    • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I would not trust anyone putting milk in their bowl first

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's definitely a VGA or DVI cable and not a DE9 serial cable. It's too wide.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The I²C bus on pins 12 and 15 is definitely a serial interface, and arguably each color is serial, even if they're not... the traditional sort.

    It is quite amusing how many less ambiguous serial connectors they could have trivially chosen. PCI-E, ethernet (8P8C), SATA, SAS, HDMI, FireWire... the options are numerous.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Hmmm?

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Honest question, what do you use these ports for apart from VGA? I never used anything but VGA but these ports look the same.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They look similar but a VGA port has 15 pins and a serial port has only 9. Serial ports like this one were really common before USB was used. You would plug peripherals into it kind of the same way you use a USB port. Mice were probably the most common use, but you could plug a lot of different things into them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Of course it is like USB since the S in USB stand for serial; Universal Serial Bus.

    I don’t remember if RS232 was plug and play or hot swap though. I think you might have had to boot with those plugged in. PS/2 I think you could? And of course USB you can. Good times.

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