Why (oh why etc) can’t someone design a better way to attach peripherals? No, not some clever Bluetooth advance or wizzy technology, just a nut that doesn’t come undone when you screw / unscrew monitors, serial connectors, printer cables,… to the back of a PC.

Years ago I had this problem as I was often working on serial comms solutions and customers (and colleagues) insisted on tightening the screw that held the adaptor to the back of the PC. In these modern times there aren’t so many serial ports in use but I’m often swapping monitors even with my Belkin switch and (especially with my Belkin switch) you need to screw the cable down as it is so thick it untwist itself & pulls out. A real irritation with my laptop as it cleverly (hah!) realises there is no external monitor and switches to internal display only - requiring much fiddling with display properties to get back to the correct twin head resolution.

Processors advance, peripherals advance, cases advance but we still seem to have these crappy little nuts. Captive ones rather than screw in ones would do the job. Is there a solution out there? Maybe I just get naff PC’s!