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  Becky is not a bear (renewedrebecca@oldbytes.space)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 00:22:26 JST Becky is not a bear

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  @equalitytime @thomasfuchs I wonder how Phil is doing now. Probably retired.

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  @thomasfuchs Dude is the perfect embodiment of a man named Phil.

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  AlisonW (alisonw@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 00:23:44 JST AlisonW

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  @thomasfuchs
  Screen frequency was a massive issue for those of us in front of monitors for long periods. Most nights I'd get headaches from the effect. Now we get 100Hz+ refreshing.

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  AlisonW (alisonw@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 01:11:28 JST AlisonW

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  @thomasfuchs
  I was using the old monochromatic monitors in the 70s and 80s. I be ancient ?

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  Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 03:10:31 JST Luke Kanies

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  @thomasfuchs I read the copy as saying the image on screen decays more slowly. That is, not refresh rate or display lag, but lag of the decay of the projected image.

  So, I think, it’s saying that the next frame will arrive just as the previous frame is decaying from the glass, so there will not be a blank spot.

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  Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 03:29:21 JST Luke Kanies

  • Thomas 🔭🕹️

  @thomasfuchs yeah. I never used monitors much from that era. But no doubt I’d rather increase my refresh rate than reduce the decay rate

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  Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 03:35:04 JST Luke Kanies

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  @thomasfuchs sorry, I was too distracted by his accent, and by the fact that he kept pointing at his glass monitor with a screwdriver.

  But yeah, I vaguely recall that. Just never had to deal much with it, thankfully.

  I was the guy going around the office after hours testing the convergence on people’s trinitrons, because I noticed it and no one else did so I would always steal the best ones