A retro problem

And when pulling it out from the mess of cables

Left side: Unscrews from the standoff. Right side: Unscrews the standoff from the IO plate.

You have to tighten the loose one to loosen the tight one. My fingers hurt just looking at it

Best part is when this sucker unscrews from the port and comes off with the cable:

The actual retro problem was when those tighty boys would start unscrewing the port instead of themselves

Pretty sure the little slit was so that you could use a flathead screwdriver. Had to do that a couple times

This happens because the connector is at an angle. Since it's at an angle, the screw presses against the side and jams itself in place. All you have to do is tilt the connector the other direction and the tight screw loosens right up. Easy peasy.

Retro problem? I used a DVI connector on my monitor until December last year.

Am I the only one that never tightened them?

GPIB users and instrumentation automating folks know the problem is very modern.

also, both stripped somehow?

At least they had screws? I dont trust HDMI or even worse USB-C. Still using VGA monitors with adapters, never broke a single plug.

All I can say is that we are fortunate that the overlap between "VGA ports everywhere" and "battery operated impact drivers" is almost zero on the timeline. Imagine trying to unscrew a VGA plug by hand that was tightened down to ugga-dugga-foot-pounds of torque. Of course that assumes that didn't shear the screws first.

I still have a DVI monitor connected to my main pc, so it's not that much of a retro problem for me

I dealt with this yesterday

I never screw them in.

Excuse me, I have a 3070 feeding into one of these bad boys.

Why is there an orange dot on the plug?

"That's when I realized the threads were stripped."

Pff. I'll be fine. I have a Hercules graphics card.

See? No twisty things.

I can still play games, right?

lol I came across a dvi cable plugged into a crappy old lcd the other day and this is exactly what happened

Can someone explain what is this to people born in this century.

Kind of wish USB has securing screws sometimes ..the amount of times I've accidentally caught a cable and yanked one out (oo-er)

Don't forget fucking bent pins.... Urrggghhhhh

When I worked IT for a call center I had to deal with so many of these that I ended up only screwing one side. Still held firmly in place, less work.

i swear every time you think you tighten one of these evenly, they just end up like this!

Me struggling with cables: “why is god so strong?!” God: “I stopped caring about humanity, and started working out.” 💪

Why is it that it is always that side that is broken and loose?