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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 06:33:57 JST minute

   today, in a really bad move, i plugged in a displayport breakout thing i was working on the wrong way around and fried the DP section of my trusted 10 year old eizo monitor. RIP

   also a lot of other little frustrations, and a few minutes ago on the way home the cops suddenly blocked the one way road (left their car there and ran to some crime scene). after a while the cars behind me decided to go backwards so we all drove backwards for a while onto a big crossing. 😵💫

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 07:47:02 JST minute

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     it looks like there are cheap replacement motherboards at least for some old eizo models. don't know exactly which one i have, but will check tomorrow.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:47:27 JST minute

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     • Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕

     @SrEstegosaurio i probably applied 5V to some dp line(s) for a while, maybe they didn't have strong enough clamping diodes. you are right though, there's normally a lot of input protection going on on ports.

   • Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕 (srestegosaurio@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 08:47:28 JST Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕

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     @mntmn Ooof.

     As someone incredibly ignorant of electronics: shouldn't things be built with "not being able to burn themselves down" as a priority?