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"I hooked up a second monitor and neither are working!" (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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I go to investigate, and they had managed to plug the HDMI cable of one monitor into the other monitor.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

To be generous, maybe they're familiar with DisplayPort daisy-chaining, which is a thing.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You just blew my mind. I didn’t know it’s even possible.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Displayport is pretty versatile. You can get an active DP hub and split DP into more independent screens if your GPU will support the total resolution.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

And you can use it over TB/USB-C.

[–] AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting. Never heard of that. It'd just be a guess, but I'm doubting this was a person familiar with that. Just a humorous oopsy.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

You are a saint with that kind of compassionate thinking - well done!

[–] Sailing7@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

TIL. Nice