Words can't effectively describe how much I hate modern PCs.
Just fought a losing battle against the ghastly work heater I was issued years ago, which has decided it will now display nothing on the screen ever, because I changed cables between it and the monitor.
Even when I change them back, it doesn't work.
All the cables/plugs work fine with my various macs and raspberry pis.
@vampiress oh dear $DEITY yes. I’ve given up using my work craptop as a laptop, now it just sits on top of my NAS and I Remote Desktop to it from my main machine (despite the ineffective efforts of the corporate spyware)
@vampiress The rants I do at work... oh so similar.
I have the opposite problem too, a HP monitor that when plugged into one particular RIP (a Win7 PC) will die to black screen in minutes. After that it just won't work with ANY other device.
Give it a few days in the pile of things to be thrown out, and it works again with anything for any amount of time, except the one PC that 'kills' it.
@vampiress I'm reminded of a youthy modern computer user on some forum or other who set himself the task of getting his Mac II to work with multiple displays as a project, and five minutes after starting he has a photo of it working, going WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME IT WAS THIS EASY I'VE PUT THIS OFF FOR MONTHS.
The old things aren't perfect but goodness some new things keep needing to be re-invented and re-fixed
(Like good ubiquitous drag & drop, but that's a rant for a much longer thread.)
(This is not a prompt to try and provide advice - I am taking my own advice. That is, I am unplugging this useless boat anchor and shoving it under my bed, where it can remain until work asks for it back.)
Update: the hell-anchor is gone away, under my bed. I will vacuum the place where it stood and plug back in my little NUC, which still works. or maybe the little micro ITX I was doing LFS on.