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The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it works fine except each time i get up from my chair the screen flashes white

Wha... how? What?

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ESD. the air is extremely dry here

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Put a ferrite core (or ferrite bead) around your cable to lessen the impact ESD has on your video output.

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

good tip, I'll try that!

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are a lot of passive adapters out there that seem like black magic at first.

Obviously has drawbacks, but you can also do displayport/hdmi to VGA passively.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is not passive, they have to "translate".

Oh, you may have got me.

By passive, I was trying to say that no external power/additional connection/etc is required. But, the port is technically powered and that is enough to make it not passive.