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   Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:46 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:44 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     @Vril_Oreilly @Elliptica @a7 @Royper I looked into buying a CRT TV to play old games on.

     I ultimately decided against it because I didn't want to have to move a heavy piece of shit used only for one thing that I could emulate on a LCD monitor with whatever effects in the emulator to make it look like a CRT anyway.

     it ain't worth it. I don't miss the fumes or the whine of old CRTs either.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:44 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @Vril_Oreilly @Elliptica @a7 @Royper >CRT fumes
     what
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     Royper (royper@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:45 JST Royper

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     @Vril_Oreilly @a7 i’m kind of half surprised that there isn’t some modern made retro ball gaming mouse option out there
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:45 JST Anime Wong

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     @Royper @Vril_Oreilly @a7 I think it's just objectively worse in every way, and not even the nostalgia people would argue against it.
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     Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:37:45 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     @Elliptica @a7 @Royper Kinda like CRTs :rei_smirk:
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:45:48 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Vril_Oreilly @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey I wish SED tech has taken off. This is from 2007. They'd probably be close to modern thickness today, but there's some physical limitations from how they're manufactured and function.
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     Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:45:49 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     @BowsacNoodle @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey LOOK AT THE FANCY CITY SLICKER WHO DOESNT USE A COALBURNING TV
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     @BowsacNoodle @Vril_Oreilly @Elliptica @a7 @Royper I remember there being a smell that was more noticeable in a room full of CRTs, like at school.

     There's still a smell of like ozone in a room full of computers, but less without the bulky monitors.

     I am probably misattributing that to CRTs and it was probably just it being a room full of computers, tbh.

     Still not worth it eitherway, imo.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:46:51 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @Vril_Oreilly @Elliptica @a7 @Royper Yeah definitely the ozone smell. It helped with nerd funk even if it wasn't healthy.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:51:49 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @lichelordgodfrey @Vril_Oreilly @a7 @Elliptica @Royper Many such cases. Like color e-ink.
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     Lichelord Godfrey (lichelordgodfrey@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:51:50 JST Lichelord Godfrey

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     @BowsacNoodle @Vril_Oreilly @a7 @Elliptica @Royper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-emitter_display?useskin=vector#History

     reading this, it looks like it was strangled in the crib partly due to legal problems involving patents.

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     Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:22:02 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     @BowsacNoodle @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey I've been getting a lot of ads for these little e-ink phones. I hope they do well, I really like e-ink technology.
     
     https://shop.boox.com/products/palma
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     Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄 (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:25:59 JST Festive Vrilliam ⛄️ 🎄

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     @BowsacNoodle @Elliptica @Royper @a7 @lichelordgodfrey they even have monitors :blobdrool:
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:26:03 JST veff :trash:

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     @Vril_Oreilly @BowsacNoodle @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey A phone sounds weird. Half the reason why I got an ereader was for the dimensions of a small book. Making that even smaller would be terrible

     On the other hand, if the tradeoff is a much faster refresh time, I actually could consider swapping over to one

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:27:45 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Vril_Oreilly @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey This is super cool, but I think the next rev will be a lot better. First thing I look for is battery life in an e-reader.
     >[one reviewer said] when just reading, with the backlight set at 30%, the battery was dropping at 8% per hour, which results in a total reading time of about 12 hours. This would make it about the same as an iPad Mini, but the Mini is a much more speedy and capable device.
     This is a cool piece of tech and refined would be even better. Take away the camera, for example.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:39:09 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Vril_Oreilly @a7 @Elliptica @Royper @lichelordgodfrey Oh dang they have a color e-ink tablet with detachable keyboard for $650. Hot dog, that sounds nifty!