• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    We have several crusty 1366x768 monitors kicking around my workplace, and none of them in regular use because they’re awful. I am reasonably certain part of why they’re so awful is because they are indeed repurposed cheap laptop panels slapped into even cheaper shells. Supporting evidence here is that they’re all significantly and suspiciously lighter than our other monitors. At least this helps with their usual use case, which is carting around to be portable temporary setups for diagnosis and troubleshooting. Every time we need a spare monitor the boss inevitably winds up ordering whatever the first option is on Amazon when sorting by price, and that’s how we wind up with these.

    I notice several of them also run off of wall warts with really weird voltages. I think one of them we have is 8.5 volts.