Funny

Also VGA: Don’t forget to unscrew both sides of me at the same time if you ever want to free me again.

I gave up on screwing VGA cables way before the turn of the century.

I've had some disconnect unintentionally. What was never a big problem. But HDMI connectors are much tighter, and I don't expect to ever see any disconnect. Ditto for DP.

Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.

I've had VGA come out by accident when its not screwed in, mostly when cable routing and I give it a little tug to try and get it up to the monitor. I think the main reason for the screws is that VGA isn't intended to be hotswappable so by screwing it in you were ensuring it wouldn't actually pop out while in use and preventing a potential cause damage to components. While HDMI is hotswappable and is designed with specific tolerances to make it fit well enough that it won't fall out by accident when routing and if it did, it won't cause damage to components anyway so its probably better to just let it pull out if it gets tugged on than to have it dragging the system or monitor around.

Work anywhere that the screen is moved regularly (like several times a day) and it'll happen.

Idk, mine flicker a bit when my cats climb around behind my PC. My DisplayPort cable has no issues whatsoever, but my HDMI cable does.

My old laptop's vga port had no screw holes. After years of plugging cables in and out of that port it eventually became loose and unable to hold onto a cable well enough to provide decent contact. In short, vga cables very rarely fell off but they most certainly did became loose and lost signal quality.

The only time the screws came in handy was when a mild earthquake shook an old crt monitor off the table, and out the window whose lip clearly wasn't high enough over the table. Definitely saved someone a broken neck as people were sitting under it. I didn't set it up, I was just there using it.

Another anecdote for evidence, I have never had an hdmi cable slip, and often have trouble with the ones I've been using for over a decade having to be pushed a little harder than is comfortable in order to fit in. Never warped or twisted, still shiny no oxidation. Just likes to be quite snug.

Of course I don't use very many hdmi cables day to day so it could very well be my cable.

And don't forget HDMI's useless encryption to protect from piracy, the HDCP.

Your TV doesn't support HDCP? Are you using some kind of convertor, HDMI switch, etc.? Shame. Worse case scenario, here's an error message, buy a new TV hehe. Best case scenario: Here's some 480p motherfucker.

Oh, your TV does support HDCP. Cool. But it's only HDCP 1.4. Our appliance requires HDCP 2.2.

display port gang!

No holes? That's what the screws are on there for.

Oh, that's worked remarkably well. Piracy is a thing of the past, and we all live in peace and harmony, with happiness and justice for all, thanks to the undefeated copyright protections afforded by the heroes at DCP LLC.

Hurrah.

Wait, seriously?!

Allow me to introduce to you the greatest connector since VGA:

I specifically do not like USBC because it's flimsy as fuck. Every device I've had that used USB-C so far has had the PCB inside the port break off after a few years because it wiggles around too much. MicroUSB would eventually get super loose and not really stay in, but it never fully broke anything off inside the damn port.

uhhh HDMI can't?

Yup. My DP cables at the back of my monitor are great, but the HDMI or USB-C flicker of I so much as touch a different cable that nudges them