"Stupidru" (Schm1an)
08/30/2014 at 19:27 • Filed to: None
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"Stupidru" (Schm1an)
08/30/2014 at 19:27 • Filed to: None | 0
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Strike 1)
I went to Best Buy looking for a cable to charge my phone since I seem to have mis-placed it. $15 for the cheapest cable... are you kidding me? So I ask an employee if there's anything cheaper or anywhere else in the store where they might have other cables. She gives me a blank stare and says "no, what you see is all we have". I said "fine, I'll leave my phone uncharged for the weekend because $15 is ridiculous". Shortly after, I kid you not, 10' away from this, I found an entire rack of cables for $8 or something. Fine. That's more manageable. Strike 1.
Strike 2)
I walked back to the audio/video department to find some RCA cables that I can splice into some speakers for a project. Another employee approaches me and I ask him if he's ever seen a HDMI (or RCA) to VGA in their store because my basement projector only accepts VGA. He says "that technology is extremely complicated and expensive. You'd need to buy a converter box for around $100 to do that". I get home and find said cable on Amazon for $10 shipped. Strike 2.
Strike 3)
I went to Home Depot to get the supplies I need to suspend my projector mount and I remember I need cable tacks to run my speaker wires and keep things looking tidy. I ask an employee where I would find those and he says "Let me ask another employee" and waits for a group of 3 employees to finish having their conversation. As soon as I saw him waiting for his turn to talk, I promptly left and found my way to the electronics aisle where the cable tacks were located. Strike 3.
I assume since it's a holiday weekend, all of the big box stores let their more experienced employees have off and made the newbs work.
spanfucker retire bitch
> Stupidru
08/30/2014 at 19:35 |
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He wasn't totally wrong about the converter box - just confused. If you want to go HDMI TO VGA, you're fine. But going from VGA to HDMI requires a converter box.
They're also not 100 dollars.
Edit: Apparently I was wrong. I knew HDMI and DVI were compatible because they carried the same signal, and I thought that to mean that HDMI also carried an analog legacy signal.
It apparently does not. That cable of yours will be worthless. Not to mention the issues you'll have with HDCP.
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Stupidru
08/30/2014 at 19:36 |
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HDMI needs a converter to go to Vga. I bought a cable and it was a fake. Adafruit sells a decent converter for less than $30 shipped.
Anima
> Stupidru
08/30/2014 at 19:54 |
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Now the other end of the story is me. Working in a store that sells most of those things and encountering customers like this:
C: Do you have this battery?
Me: Sure here it is.
C: Do you think Alice in wonderland was a boy or a girl?
Me: Eehm..
C: Do you think Alice in wonderland was a boy or a girl.
Me: As far as I know it's a girl. That's 8,99 for the batteries sir.
C: Does Alice in wonderland take place on Mars or on Venus?
Me: Yeah.. 8,99 please.
C: Does Alice in wonderland take place on Mars or on Venus?
Me: As far as I know it takes place on earth sir.
C: HA! As far as you know. You know what? Venus and Mars are the paradise!
Me: Yeeaaaah... Have a nice day sir.
Btw: He was right about the HDMI to VGA. You need a converter. Digital/analog. Think Diesel/petrol. That cables are being sold on the interwebs doesn't necessarily mean they work.
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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
08/31/2014 at 00:19 |
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Since I am no longer on my phone...
The adapter is here:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1151
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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> spanfucker retire bitch
08/31/2014 at 04:54 |
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There's DVI-I and DVI-D. as far as I'm concerned, DVI-I has both digital and analog. I ran a DVI to VGA on a secondary monitor at one point, and I presume it's a DVI-I adapter.