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Klear@quokk.au 7 hours ago
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Am I in the minority of people who never used VGA?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Emphasis on Minor I guess
causepix@lemmy.ml 5 minutes ago
The only time I’ve encountered VGA was my first year as an intern when my office had given me a flat screen monitor that frequently gave me migraines. Thing had to be older than me. That was 7 years ago.
If I encountered it before that, I wasn’t aware of it because I was a child and wasn’t responsible for plugging in the monitors I was using.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
What did you use then? I remember cheap monitors in the early 00s ONLY having VGA. By the time I’d moved on, HDMI was so ubiquitous, I skipped DVI instead.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social 43 minutes ago
Very legitimate possiblity OP was born in the early 00’s
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
If you were rich enough, could have only used displays with RGB-BNC.
Or maybe they’re kinda crazy and used Component video with a TV screen. (Or composite…)
Or maybe they’re just not that old.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I used VGA up until maybe 2012, 2013. Even longer at my job.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Thats cute. There are so, so many machines that have vga still in my field.
Basically every hmi panel in existence use vga still. And password-less vnc.
einlander@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
If you had an old HTC windows ce 6.0 it might work.
spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Pretty sure those were mini USB.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Just need another adapter.
einlander@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Might be, I misplaced mine and I’ve been looking for it.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
yeah? well I have a
wall outlet › USB-A › Micro USB › USB-C › THC
adapter, how about that? (it just ends in my rechargeable cart)Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
wall outlet › USB-A › Micro USB › USB-C › THC
You convert electricity into tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis?
Neat!
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You get high from a wall outlet? Cool!
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
My old tower pc used to give wicked electric shocks off the hdmi ports. Pretty sure I could have run space heaters off those fuckers
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
This pissed me off so much that I accidentally backed out and up voted a post I didn’t even look at. Fuck you, sir.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What did dude think was coming out of the VGA port? Tiny photographs? It’s all electricity through wires, of course it’ll send some electricity into a phone
sundray@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
It’s sending out the pixels, silly! A stream of little pixels in neat little rows.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah but is the voltage correct? It should be 5V to charge a phone over USB, is that part of the VGA spec?
Anivia@feddit.org 36 minutes ago
Doesn’t matter. The VGA to HDMI adapter is active, not passive, so it matters if HDMI has a 5v rail, not VGA
9point6@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah I don’t think there’s a 5V pin for VGA.
I think if we had the scenario where we had a higher voltage than needed, we could have a toasty voltage regulator making something happen, but going the other way would need boost circuit unlikely to exist in these parts, in my understanding
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I don’t know shit about cables but it’s plugged into a monitor. My intuition is that a monitor shouldn’t be pushing power out through a video input port.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
DisplayPort has a +3.3V 500mA pin specifically for pushing power. In theory, great for powering an active adapter. In practice, has killed motherboards because Dell can’t design a computer for shit.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The monitor has to send some data to the computer to tell it what screen resolutions it accepts. VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort will all do that for sure. Less certain about component, composite, and S-Video.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
The VGA port on a monitor is an input.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 5 hours ago
Of course electricity comes out of a VGA port, but it's only a signal, I wouldn't assume that it's anywhere near enough to charge a phone.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Pin #9 of the VGA spec is 5v, though it seems unusual that a monitor would provide power on that pin