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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Ditto… ish.

    In my dream I mixed up some constraints of the real-world system. I still came up with an elegant solution that would have worked if the dreams constraints were true. Except they weren’t and the solution was useless.

    Bonus was the dream-solution exposed a “front door” so to speak on the real problem and I felt dumb that I even spent 5 minutes thinking about it.


  • Plug a USB-C screen into a USB-C port. Will it work?

    Maybe? If the manufacturer has wired the port to the GPU for DP/HDMI alt mode it might.

    … but you’ve used this display on this laptop before?

    Try another port! Nope, still nothing.

    Maybe it’s the cable? Rummage around through your cables and try a few out. Hope you don’t have any from the 2010s because there’s a good chance they’ll ruin your device.

    The screen works! But performance is terrible, why? It’s running in DisplayLink mode.

    You give up and suffer through.