Post Al6WVQim7Bclss91n6 by lenaschimmel@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #Al6WEMzshwf9PY0kZE by foone@digipres.club
       2024-08-18T21:38:54Z
       
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       Thanks to buying a mini-dp to hdmi (male) and a mini-dp to hdmi (female) cable, I can now connect two laptops with mini-dp together.I don't know what this'd do. Somewhere between "nothing" and "both laptops are broken now", but I'm so compelled to try
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6WPK2s1TVHRRdDzk by petrillic@hachyderm.io
       2024-08-18T21:41:52Z
       
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       @foone
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6WVQim7Bclss91n6 by lenaschimmel@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T21:42:49Z
       
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       @foone Thunderbolt 1 uses mini-dp connectors, and a direct computer-to-computer link is definitely possible with that. With Apple computers, you should get something like Ethernet when they are booted, and the option to mount (and even boot) the hard disk of one computer on the other one ("target mode").But I have no idea if Thunderbolt-over-actually-an-HDMI-cable is supported.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6XigFhmWpJluQhHc by justanotherblue@wandering.shop
       2024-08-18T21:55:22Z
       
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       @foone
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6XoCyXXrtui02KeG by websterleone@meemu.org
       2024-08-18T21:56:11Z
       
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       @foone Theoretically it shouldn't break anything, but the devil's in the cheapness of implementation.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6YM7HLERuat101mi by leonerd@fosstodon.org
       2024-08-18T22:03:37Z
       
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       @foone I've often wondered why no laptop ever seems to support being used as a simple HDMI monitor by directing video sent in to the HDMI port up to its internal display panel, bypassing the local GPU entirely
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6ZWeJdM8mgCNerCK by gudenau@fosstodon.org
       2024-08-18T22:16:42Z
       
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       @foone If it's not nothing you just found a really bad mistake in the laptop(s) that died.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6c4XocEL1FnCRK2i by EndlessMason@hachyderm.io
       2024-08-18T22:13:46Z
       
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       @leonerdDigital lines don't like it when one device drives a line high while another drives it low@foone
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6c4Ya7Nj16AWfG5I by foone@digipres.club
       2024-08-18T22:45:08Z
       
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       @EndlessMason @leonerd yeah they do. it's like play-fighting for them
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6cOboz2uTc0aBBKK by thomas@twinports.us
       2024-08-18T22:48:33Z
       
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       @fooneRecord a video if you try, my bet is on not much, but poor design of the adapters or devices port power handling could result in magic smoke from so many places.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al6scOxzEdIxSczOSW by annmygdala@todon.nl
       2024-08-19T01:50:55Z
       
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       @foone Do it!!