Or when your're trying to feed that fucker back through the passthrough on a desk.

Every fucking time. Why do I keep buying monitors with a VGA 🤣😭

you a director yet? that's gandalf level wisdom

Amen to this....or just say fuck it and break out the screwdriver

Ugh this stresses me out just thinking about it

Then one side of the driver notch shears off

those slots were near useless.

edit to say: one trick was to use the blank expansion slot plates to gently break the vice like grip the screw had in the hex stand-off. the metal used on the cheap "digit remover" cases was sometimes soft enough to loosen the thumb screws via the driver slot without the thumb screw breaking.

still nearly useless though.

This would have been really good for me to know about 20 years ago.

Holy Diver!

Yep, you are retro

I tighten them and it saved my monitor! Robbers broke in to our house, stole a bunch of stuff. The computer monitor was still there, connected to the computer, dangling from the table.

How do I know they tried to steal it? Because they tried to cut through the cable with PAPER SCISSORS, because they didn't know how to unscrew the cables.

I feel sorry for the dumb robbers. I hope they didn't pawn it and are still enjoying playing Wii Fitness without the balance board, which they neglected to take with the console.

I like DVI. I prefer it most of the time.

I like the screw in connector because I don't have to worry about it falling out of the PC or monitor, and it is more robust, less likely to be pulled/bent/broken.

Unfortunately, even monitor vendors don't seem to agree that DVI was/is good, and I've seen a lot of displays shipping without it recently. GPU makers have entirely gone to displayport/HDMI. It's the end of an era, as far as I'm concerned.

I've switched almost entirely to DP, since I can't get DVI anything anymore. I don't hate DP. I like it more than the friction fit HDMI which is prone to pulling itself out of the port for no good reason just as your opponent is about to come around the corner and all you can do is stare at yourself in the black mirror that your monitor has become and listen in horror as fartmaster69420 frags you again, bragging about it and telling you that you suck, and how he does unspeakable things to your mother over VC in his prepubescent voice.

Anyways. I miss DVI.

I sort of miss the screws too but it's so much better when a cable accidentally gets yanked and it just comes right out instead of transmitting the force into whatever it's attached to.

Good news, USB-C has two formats with screws: 1 on either side like VGA or 1 on top. Though I've never seen them in real life.

Why are you using VGA when DVI-D exists? Or Displayport for that matter.

I'm sorry to tell you that was 20 years ago.