• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    It was! Back in the day, half the time the screws were tighter in the plug which caused the sockets to come out of the motherboard rather than unscrewing in many times during my desktop days. I fucking hated them!

    Could at least straighten a bent pin, though…

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.

    • wabasso@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      I don’t know why I kept tightening them. I never found myself in a situation where the connector was falling out if they were left unscrewed.