• statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    My first job in IT 20-some years ago began swapping their CRTs for LCDs and I got to take home a Dell rebadge of a 19” Trinitron. It did 1600x1200 at 75hz. It had a fantastic picture for gaming. I can’t for the life of me remember what happened to it.

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      2 days ago

      After the divorce, my dad got a top of the line desktop with the biggest crt monitor is ever seen at that point. It must have been 19-20". He didn’t know shit about computers, but he knew he wanted the biggest ones when he walked into best buy.

      He never did a damn thing with that powerhouse but watch porn, a fact I unfortunately stumbled upon when clearing all the malware from shady Y2K era porn sites.

      Folks, never Ever learn your folks sexual preferences.

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      2 days ago

      I had one like that. It gave up its magic smoke a short time after I discovered you could enter custom horizontal timings in Linux for higher-than-standard resolutions