• Chriszz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In most cases only the first one applies. Rarely ever see monitors that aren’t powered independently. Also sounds like chatgpt wrote this.

    Edit: apparently everyone skipped over the part where I said I rarely see them

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      They exist but they are rare. Most of them are USB powered small monitors.

      If you’re connecting your laptop to an external display it’s usually via a hub/dock (powering your laptop too, making battery drain irrelevant) unless you’re connecting it to a display in eg. a meeting room without connecting power separately and then GPU load matters

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      I’m having a 15" mobile external monitor for my business trips, which is powered through my laptop. At least for those mobile displays, this is quite typical. Often you just need one USB C convention for power and video