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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 06:35:44 JST pistolero
   A single bead of sweat rolls down my pasty torso, tracing the contours, illuminated only by the glow of an SVGA monitor. I say to her, "Come here, sit on my lap while I wait for the compiler to finish running." Her lips taste of Red Bull.
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     w0rm (dsm@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:29:57 JST w0rm

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     She pushes her clear-framed lenses up her nose, "Actually, sweaty... I only fuck interpreted code rockstars."
     
     Here are 5 ways to make your code more attractive to women. (Number 3 will astound you!!)
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:32:18 JST pistolero

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     @dsm Women always say they want an interpreted code guy but they run off with the kernel hacker.
     
     > Here are 5 ways to make your code more attractive to women. (Number 3 will astound you!!)
     
     I am prepared to purchase.
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     :segasaturn: (takao@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:32:30 JST :segasaturn:

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     Bloat. Next thing you'll tell me it's not an amber monochrome display :rokalife:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:33:56 JST pistolero

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     @takao I don't think they made amber SVGA displays, unfortunately. As soon as there were colors, everyone wanted all of the colors; Windows XP proved that this was a mistake.
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     dobó istván (istvan@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:49:41 JST dobó istván

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     @takao @p Those are expensive these days.

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:51:54 JST pistolero

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     @istvan @takao Sadly. Not easy to do small-batch CRTs, I guess. Probably easier to buy a white monochrome display (still made for medical equipment, and cheap second-hand) and cover it in amber cellophane, but definitely not the same as a warm phosphorous glow.
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     Gabry ᗜˬᗜ (gabryx86_64@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 18:25:15 JST Gabry ᗜˬᗜ

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     @p the type of relationship i need

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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:28:11 JST Judge Dread

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     @p In The Veldt Ray Bradbury predicted that people would always want more colors, higher resolution and bigger screens.
     
     First time I laid eyes on a Sony Trinitron 32 bit color display I knew monochrome was done.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:28:11 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread Color sells better but sometimes monochrome is preferred: searching the Electronic Bay for monochrome display have mostly second-hand medical equipment.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 22:43:46 JST Judge Dread

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     @p I used to love high res grayscale screens. But mainly because video cards could barely handle color at the time.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 23:22:37 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread I mostly deal with text. Monochrome's pretty nice for that, much easier to read. If most UIs didn't rely on color so heavily, I would keep the saturation cranked down to zero on the monitor. (The menus controlled by the buttons on the sides of the monitors are depraved, so I usually leave it set to normal color. It would be nice if there was a toggle, though. OSX has a setting for this but I don't use OSX, and X11 doesn't do this. Linux *does* have an EDID override mechanism, but I haven't tried playing with that. You can do this if the monitor connects with a VGA cable by just clipping some of the pins, which means that it's probably trivial to create a toggle for color by cutting the cable open and wiring up a little switch that disconnects the color pins, but you can't do this kind of thing with HDMI/DVI.)
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     Patrick Cooper (patrickcooper@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 17:52:25 JST Patrick Cooper

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     @p @judgedread Fun geek fact: zinc sulphide doped with manganese is one of the most efficient phosphors discovered and is stable, well understood, and cheap. It happens to emit an amber color, which is why you see amber monochrome displays.
     
     Given a choice, green is the preferred monochrome display color because the human eye is most sensitive to it, which is why all the non-amber monochrome displays are green.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 17:58:23 JST pistolero

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     @PatrickCooper @judgedread
     
     > zinc sulphide doped with manganese is one of the most efficient phosphors discovered and is stable, well understood, and cheap. It happens to emit an amber color,
     
     I'm taking notes.
     
     > Given a choice, green is the preferred monochrome display color
     
     Of the people that have used monochrome displays, I do not know of any that preferred green to amber; I certainly prefer amber. (I do know plenty that use a green foreground in their terminal emulators, but I think that's usually an affectation, since those same people keep trying to jam colored text into the output of the code they write.)