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In one of the interviews for a training to become an “IT specialist for systems integration” (translated from german) they actually put a PC in front of me and asked me to explain all the ports and components. It was a pretty renowned science center though. Maybe if they did this everywhere people would know this stuff better, but usually there's just a 10 minute written test that might ask you what a mainboard is but not to differentiate HDMI from Display Port.
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To be perfectly honest first time I saw DP cable in my life (i didnt know dp existed, it was very fresh thing) I was like...
and the fuck happened to this cable? its... umm... cable to something I guess?
google -> "dp cable" (it had dp written on it) -> extract info
oooooooohhh... okay. I guess I may need it at some point :P -
@Parzi it looks like that in the picture. DisplayPort has that notch too, but on both sides
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So my friends PC died, since he lives in another country I help him over Signal.
He assembled his own PC a year ago and does a lot of programming for his study. Today Im helping him troubleshoot why his pc does not boot. Does it get into the bootmenu or not? He knows it doesnt. Then I recommend him to try unplugging his graphics card and plug his monitor in the motherboard. I then get a question if there are two HDMI types. Im smiling and think he is messing with me. That must be a displayport. Nope he was serious, he has this HDMI cable that doesnt fit his motherboard.
I sat in a tram and laugh out loud.. Because this is what he send me.
If it was anyone who didnt do anything with computers I didnt think it was laughable, but come on every programmer should know the difference between HDMI and DisplayPort
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