Esata was so cool for like 3 years. I needed more storage fast on my laptop and having only USB 2.0 that was a no go. But esta gave me one cable to an external SSD that did power and fast data.
Then USB 3.0 came out, then UASP, and that completely killed esata.
I still prefer eSATA over USB when using SATA drives. A lot of the USB to SATA chips don’t support reading the SMART data from the drive. Now we have NVMe SSDs connected over thunderbolt, which is much faster than SATA or USB3 and SMART works correctly.
God, fuck those dual DVI-D ports. We had a bunch of computers at my first real job that used that crap and the breakout cables were such complete and utter shit. Dell, you had room for two DVI-D ports on your shit ass midtowers!
EDIT: also fuck DVI-A. I’ve had one miserable encounter with that port and I’m glad it’s dead. Either keep shit VGA, use DVI-D, or use the far superior DisplayPort with a locking cable.
Don’t be a conformist!
Make your own decisions!
Keep Centronics Parallel alive!
If you aren’t using at least 3 different types of DVI connectors your nerd card is revoked!
I like the PS/2 cause it came out years before the PS2
RIP e-SATA
Esata was so cool for like 3 years. I needed more storage fast on my laptop and having only USB 2.0 that was a no go. But esta gave me one cable to an external SSD that did power and fast data.
Then USB 3.0 came out, then UASP, and that completely killed esata.
I still prefer eSATA over USB when using SATA drives. A lot of the USB to SATA chips don’t support reading the SMART data from the drive. Now we have NVMe SSDs connected over thunderbolt, which is much faster than SATA or USB3 and SMART works correctly.
I feel old. The only one of those I haven’t ever used is that AAUI port. What’s that for?
The AAUI was an adapter that allowed old-world Macs to connect to ethernet
i see, the computer version of a prehensile tail…
Super old school Apple networking IIRC
God, fuck those dual DVI-D ports. We had a bunch of computers at my first real job that used that crap and the breakout cables were such complete and utter shit. Dell, you had room for two DVI-D ports on your shit ass midtowers!
EDIT: also fuck DVI-A. I’ve had one miserable encounter with that port and I’m glad it’s dead. Either keep shit VGA, use DVI-D, or use the far superior DisplayPort with a locking cable.
God I fucking love DisplayPort locking cables.
DVI as a collective can eat shit and rot in a pile of shit.
VGA was great, DP is nice but should be more adopted, HDMI is “meh” but usable, using DVI is like eating Trump’s hemorrhoids
HDMI is much worse than DVI. Because of their bullshit licensing, the newer versions can’t be used with open source drivers.
Yeah that’s why I put it behind DP.
However, I’ve never had a problem with HDMI, it has always just worked on every display every computer without problems.