Homie, the non profit club we’re renting a room from isn’t going to buy a new projector just because I think HDMI is beneath my dignity.
Projectors have a long lifespan, and don’t tend to be replaced until they actually fail.
Besides, HDMI can transfer up to 48 gigabit/sec, so it’s actually faster than anything but the very latest standard of USB.
I recently bought a refurbished laptop, and a large part of the reason I got it was for presentations, HDMI was a must have feature for me.
I imagine any enterprise laptop would be similar, if you can’t hook it up to the projector, why bother?
I mean, there’s a reason there are multiple models of laptop you can buy.
If I’m carrying my laptop around the house, I’m carrying just the laptop, not any peripherals, whereas the dongle is in the laptop bag or on my desk.
And I quite like being able to carry my laptop around with one hand.
Yep. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Because I don’t want a chonky boi laptop to carry around.
Of course it will weigh more, those ports and the boards to drive them weigh something.
Because one of them is actively promoting and favouring viewpoints many people find abhorrent.
The fact it’s owned by a billionaire isn’t the major concern for most people.
A lot of people give presentations or connect their laptop to a TV, I don’t think taking out the HDMI port would go down well at all.
Yeah, that can stay too.
Except the device inevitably ends up bigger and chunkier.
Yeah, because plugging in one thing is way harder than plugging in six.
This is a classic use case for a laptop dock.
That’s a use case for a laptop dock if ever there was one.
Power, HDMI, a few USBs, and headphones, all you’ll ever likely need.
There’s no doubt a dongle for anything else.
It’s honestly not that bad, it’s not like you’re required to actually do anything while this is happening.
Yeah, and you can wander off and do something else in the meantime.
I’m pretty sure it’s less than 10, and I just recently set up a Windows machine.
How TF did that take three days?
How I want a windows install is “working, with no BS”.
It comes out the box working, all I needed to do was disable Onedrive on boot. I haven’t even bothered to change the background, and probably won’t.
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