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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Last week at $DAYJOB, we wanted to connect a Raspberry Pi 4 to a monitor. Raspberry Pi 4 has a Micro-HDMI port. The monitor has DisplayPort and DVI.

So, we went to IT support to see, if they have anything to make that work. Well, only thing they have with Micro-HDMI is an adapter that brings it onto VGA, because that's apparently an adapter someone needed.
Now you'd think they might have VGA-to-DVI, but nope, we had to route through normal HDMI in between. So, the chain of adapters we now use is:

Micro-HDMI → VGA → HDMI → DVI

Oh, and for good measure, the HDMI-to-DVI adapter also has a USB-plug dangling off the side, which definitely won't get routed through VGA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Digital to Analog to Digital. Just order microhdmi to dport?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it works, yes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe. By including VGA, the signal will be converted from a digital signal to analog, then back to digital. This might affect visual quality and color reproduction, and limit max resolution to about 1080p.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, it probably kills the quality, but we only need it to look at the terminal output of the Raspi while it's booting, so quality really doesn't matter...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you have to call out my Factorio playthrough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

no, it's meant to look like that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Remove the ground pin and it'll work fine. Just make sure your insurance covers electric fires.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Either way, really, the cord isn't grounded

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where do they have power sockets with two round European-style pins and two flat North American-style pins, and what voltage comes out of them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I’m pretty sure it’s a “shaver only” socket so it would be 110V, 200mA, but at 50Hz.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I kind of expected it to spark and smoke a bit when plugged in. To be accurate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This would be a decorator pattern. Not sure if this is the right use case tho

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It works for now, we can refactor it later.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Narrator: But they never did.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I remember doing this and then refactoring my code twice.

At least I did it before handing it over.