Lapis the Nevrean

It fascinates me to see new motherboards including DVI ports in this day and age but they're not actually "true" DVI-I ports so they may as well have included a second HDMI or a DisplayPort because new Shitty Office Monitors expect DisplayPort nowadays. It's insulting to me as someone that actually needs an analog video output sometimes. I should be able to put a passive VGA adapter in that DVI port but I can't because it's just a DVI-D port.

I have a build with a Ryzen 3000G that needs to run a CRT because its life purpose is to play arcade DDR games, and I have to use a VGA adapter, but there are no genuine and fully standards compliant with no corner cases DVI/HDMI/DP to VGA adapters. I have a pile of them; one forces "cinema style" colors and can't drive a dark image at true black, one fritzes out and displays garbage on the screen, one doesn't support higher refresh rates... And then I have a second build that's driving a really picky TV and not even that computer's native VGA output from the DVI-I will drive it correctly, I have to use one specific active DVI-D to VGA adapter, just to get a goddamn 1366x768 image that displays correctly.

These adapters are all sold by sixletter Amazon virtual companies and they have the same gross squircular shell made out of shit plastic and they are only tested to drive 1024x768@60 and it's a crapshoot if they will handle 1366x768 or 85 Hz which are basically the only two reasons why you would ever still want to use a VGA monitor with a new computer. Either "it's a cromulent TV I want to use to watch movies" or "it's an also-cromulent CRT that I want to run small and fast for that low latency good-good mmm".