• Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    My favorite is when people get picky about cabling for digital transfer. The ones and zeroes either get there or they don’t, nothing in-between. They work or they don’t.

    Around the time when HDMI was released my friend bought some "super-high-end "cable that cost over 200$, since he wanted the "best possible performance " out of his system. I tried to explain that the cheapest cables would give the exact same results if they’re not faulty from the start. We had a loud argument about this, even though the guy is a goddamn tech PhD. He just could not admit he got scammed and tried to give me a lecture about “how the gold plated connectors make all the difference”.

    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      I had a salesperson who said that with This more expensive HDMI cable, the picture almost looks three-dimensional!