Mastodawn

virgin HDMI vs chad VGA

https://programming.dev/post/47812079

The primary design goal of VGA was to display video. The primary design goal of HDMI was to prevent the display of video.

displayport is the modern successor to vga.

and it also has a locking mechanism!

I wish DisplayPort would become the standard already. It’s superior in every way.

HDMI is the microUSB of the video world and I wish it would die already in lieu of DP and USB-C/ThunderBolt.

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.

Every time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.