Where are your screws, HDMI?

Also VGA: Don't forget to unscrew both sides of me at the same time if you ever want to free me again.

Also VGA: Don’t forget to unscrew both sides of me at the same time if you ever want to free me again.

I have never, ever had an HDMI cord, or a VGA cord for that matter, disconnect unintentionally. I haven’t turned those screws in years.

I gave up on screwing VGA cables way before the turn of the century.
I've had some disconnect unintentionally. What was never a big problem. But HDMI connectors are much tighter, and I don't expect to ever see any disconnect. Ditto for DP.
Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.
- Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.
  I mean, a locking connector is also a feature. Just for a different market
- The connection for HDMI is sod, but damn if it doesn't still lose signal every time I move my monitor.
I've had VGA come out by accident when its not screwed in, mostly when cable routing and I give it a little tug to try and get it up to the monitor. I think the main reason for the screws is that VGA isn't intended to be hotswappable so by screwing it in you were ensuring it wouldn't actually pop out while in use and preventing a potential cause damage to components. While HDMI is hotswappable and is designed with specific tolerances to make it fit well enough that it won't fall out by accident when routing and if it did, it won't cause damage to components anyway so its probably better to just let it pull out if it gets tugged on than to have it dragging the system or monitor around.
Idk, mine flicker a bit when my cats climb around behind my PC. My DisplayPort cable has no issues whatsoever, but my HDMI cable does.

HDMI was a mistake that never should have happened.

And don't forget HDMI's useless encryption to protect from piracy, the HDCP.
Your TV doesn't support HDCP? Are you using some kind of convertor, HDMI switch, etc.? Shame. Worse case scenario, here's an error message, buy a new TV hehe. Best case scenario: Here's some 480p motherfucker.
Oh, your TV does support HDCP. Cool. But it's only HDCP 1.4. Our appliance requires HDCP 2.2.
- What in the goddamn? Never buying any HDMI-only device, fuck HDMI.
display port gang!
- DP with locking tabs gang
- DDWG gang! I mean DVI gang. RIP DDWG.
- SDI gang represent!

Me: “Computer, I’m licking two paperclips that I’ve stuck into the vga port. I’d like to taste the rainbow. Send video to the port, please?”

Computer: “Sure thing boss!”

Me: “Alright, now, can I put my presentation on this projector over hdmi?”

Computer: “No fuck you, hdmi protocol negotiation failed, and I’m scrambling your audio outputs for the rest of the day too”

They do make HDMIs with locking screws, but no one really uses them as very few products have the screw holes for them.

No holes? That's what the screws are on there for.
- Look at an hdmi port on basically any device. There are no holes.

Also, VGA cables have no damn DHCP integrated, so you can pass anything you want with them, contrary to HDMI and DP which both have "anti piracy" protection integrated directly into the cable, for your inconvenience.

In order to make a device that plays HDCP-enabled content, the manufacturer must obtain a license for the patent from Intel subsidiary Digital Content Protection LLC, pay an annual fee, and submit to various conditions. For example, the device cannot be designed to copy; it must "frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements"; it must not transmit high definition protected video to non-HDCP receivers; and DVD-Audio works can be played only at CD-audio quality by non-HDCP digital audio outputs (analog audio outputs have no quality limits).

Wait, seriously?!

Anybody else think USB-C connector is even worse? Seems so flimsy...

Allow me to introduce to you the greatest connector since VGA:
- this is actually a part of type c spec btw
  there's also a single screw version
I specifically do not like USBC because it's flimsy as fuck. Every device I've had that used USB-C so far has had the PCB inside the port break off after a few years because it wiggles around too much. MicroUSB would eventually get super loose and not really stay in, but it never fully broke anything off inside the damn port.
- I was just saying the other day to one of my friends that I have never had a USB-C port fail on me in anyway.
  Two sides of a coin I guess.
- I had too many micro USB slots die on me. That also killed my beloved Nokia N900.
  We never should have ventured beyond mini USB.

The first 2 computer repair shops I worked at both had nut-setters that someone had ground down on so they could be used to tighten or replace the screw bosses on a female VGA connector.

Kind of a pain in the dick honestly… but I can confirm that it was entirely possible to drag a full sized tower off a workbench by the VGA cable ;-)

This reminds me about USB Type C with screws.

I really don't miss DB15. Too many times when disconnecting, one of the standoffs would come unscrewed. Then you have to shut down, take the side off of your case, find the stupid nut, then screw the standoffs back in. Only finger tight, though, so it would all happen again the next time. 😆