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Yeah if you've ever been in a cab with a driver who's got a Bluetooth headset and seems to be having a constant bored conversation the whole time, barely acknowledging you when you get in and leave, it's likely his wife on the phone for the aforementioned reason. Idk why it's common but it's a thing
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Jonny 290 posted:can we all agree that these were the absolute worst ones the fact that these still exist is just so incredibly dumb. why yes i want something bigger than wired headphones, with all of the sound quality of wireless. just polluting all online shopping search results
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Jonny 290 posted:they remind me of the cab drivers that have to stay on the phone with their wives all day to keep convincing them that they're not out cheating on them lol i always thought this was the case, but i felt weird about the assumption. i could never understand how anyone could have such a boring/nonsense open phone call going forever
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carry on then posted:playsforsure microsoft dropping playsforsure, making the content unplayable
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Giant CRT monitors with huge bezels with plenty of room for stickers and pins, with a nice flat top with room for all your tchotchkes and caffeine drink containers.
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i had to keep my crt tops clear of poo poo because my cat had firmly staked out that area as his own I’d argue the fall of the CRT has probably been the hardest on the feline world
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seeing 1600x1200 in the monitor preferences and wondering what kind of king or millionaire could ever own such a luxury
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mediaphage posted:lmao what it's real. back when i lived on the road i would just use lyft/cabs to get everywhere rather than getting a rental car. it was usually african / middle east immigrant dudes
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Jun 27, 2021 18:53
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Sweevo posted:seeing 1600x1200 in the monitor preferences and wondering what kind of king or millionaire could ever own such a luxury back around 2005 i had a dell 2001fp, and for a brief time was king poo poo of nerd mountain. that was a good-rear end monitor. funy tech poo poo: that dell lcd replaced a beat to poo poo gateway-branded 17" trinitron that had probably been lugged to a few too many LAN parties. holy gently caress that was a dramatic improvement.
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SO DEMANDING posted:back around 2005 i had a dell 2001fp, and for a brief time was king poo poo of nerd mountain. that was a good-rear end monitor. summer 2004 my work monitor was a Sun 19" Trinitron that had started to go a little dark and hard to read, and yet work was too cheap to replace it when I asked I go on vacation for a week, I come back to find one of these 2001FPs on my desk instead. Office mate tells me while I was gone the monitor suddenly made a really loud electrical sound and then started smoking, so I was finally given a new monitor I had coworkers who only half-jokingly asked me what I did to make my CRT spontaneously combust so they could get a new one too, because apparently that was the only sure-fire way to get a replacement request approved
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im using two of those 2001FPs right now good-rear end tech poo poo i just remembered: the sony CPD-G400. 19", 1600x1200, 85Hz. i was king poo poo when i had two of these in high school. still the nicest monitors ive ever owned.
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Scope posted:Giant CRT monitors with huge bezels with plenty of room for stickers and pins, with a nice flat top with room for all your tchotchkes and caffeine drink containers. i stuck a digital watch with a busted strap on one to know what time it was quickly in fullscreen games lol
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Jun 27, 2021 20:46
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SO DEMANDING posted:back around 2005 i had a dell 2001fp, and for a brief time was king poo poo of nerd mountain. that was a good-rear end monitor. I got a 20 inch 1680x1050 LCD in 2004 and a couple of my friends gawked and said it was the biggest computer monitor they'd ever seen.
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Sagebrush posted:I got a 20 inch 1680x1050 LCD in 2004 and a couple of my friends gawked and said it was the biggest computer monitor they'd ever seen.
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Sweevo posted:referring to bytes as "octets" «je pleure en français»
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah if you've ever been in a cab with a driver who's got a Bluetooth headset and seems to be having a constant bored conversation the whole time, barely acknowledging you when you get in and leave, it's likely his wife on the phone for the aforementioned reason. Idk why it's common but it's a thing my friends and I joked they were running sex chat lines Programmer Humor posted:microsoft dropping playsforsure, making the content unplayable I wanna say that I remember getting some prompt in win media player about this and it went and removed the DRM on existing tracks. It only worked if you played them though.
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Raluek posted:im using two of those 2001FPs right now if i could find a gdm-fw900 for not a million dollars i’d go pick it up right now
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Jun 27, 2021 21:28
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:i had to keep my crt tops clear of poo poo because my cat had firmly staked out that area as his own My chubby bub has realized that the tower is hot too when I play video games, so she rests herself there next to me. I can give her rubs as she makes grumpy noises about them but also doesn't move and purrs loudly and gets upset when I stop.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:hell yea that was when i got my 2005FPW, which lasted me another 11 years. i still see people using those oh poo poo that was a thing for a couple years, the big choice between standard or widescreen. i, being an intellectual of sophistication and good taste, went with the 4:3 2001fp over the 2005fpd  i think the generation of monitors after that they still had 16:10 and 4:3 20" screens but most people started going with widescreen by then, the 4:3 may have even cost a bit more at that point (or just wasn't on sale as often)
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Sagebrush posted:I got a 20 inch 1680x1050 LCD in 2004 and a couple of my friends gawked and said it was the biggest computer monitor they'd ever seen. now remember that the apple cinema display 30” came out at that time too, seeing one of those irl was a game changer
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yeah im on a 34” now I think I was most productive on 2x 20” 4:3
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Wild EEPROM posted:now remember that the apple cinema display 30” came out at that time too, seeing one of those irl was a game changer
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why can't i buy a 30" 2560x1920 4:3 drat it!?
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i have a sarnsung 20" 5:4 in a rack chassis. it takes up like 10u and it's glorious and still works perfect.
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PCjr sidecar posted:yeah im on a 34” now I think I was most productive on 2x 20” 4:3 a 34" 21:9 is almost exactly the same area and proportions (16" x 12" x 2 versus 31.5" x 13.5") but on a single screen. it's better.
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i gave away a perfect flat 27" trinitron on my move before last and really regret it now.
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mediaphage posted:if i could find a gdm-fw900 for not a million dollars i’d go pick it up right now if you're negotiable on the 'f' part, i have three of them in my garage i need to get rid of they're the sun version, but i have the 13W3 adapters for them too
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Raluek posted:im using two of those 2001FPs right now hell yeah a friend has mine now and its still awesome it’d even do 1880x1440
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Sony GDM-FW900 a 24in CRT that most people ran at 1920×1200 but that could run at up to 2560 horizontal I know a couple folks who had them, but recycled because they couldn’t find new homes for those enormous beasts
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eschaton posted:Sony GDM-FW900 i did and i dont regret it for even one second
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eschaton posted:hell yeah a friend has mine now and its still awesome not at 85Hz, though, and i sure couldnt tolerate the flicker at lower refresh rates for very long one of mine lost one of the colors and the other one was starting to go out (i think it would pop and go black sometimes? it's been like a decade so i dont remember exactly) and i still regret getting rid of them
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Crt televisions never bothered me but for some reason computer CRTs always made my eyes water like crazy. I pretty much sucked it up and dealt with it from 1995-2005. Once LCDs became commonplace I never experienced that again. I have no idea what caused it. I've never needed glasses or anything so I really am perplexed as to what was doing that. Like right now in my mame cabinet I have a 25" crt low res arcade monitor and I don't experience that at all. But if i dug up a computer crt my eyes would feel like I rubbed sandpaper on them after about twenty minutes. Wtf was the cause of that? Refresh rate or something?
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That's from the x-rays getting shot at your eyes.
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white screens on crts were the worst flickery garbage. I had to go to 75 or 85hz before it didn’t bother me. 60hz was unusable for me.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:white screens on crts were the worst flickery garbage. I had to go to 75 or 85hz before it didn’t bother me. 60hz was unusable for me. I was a lot of people's hero because I could offer to make their monitor not-painful to look at
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klosterdev posted:I was a lot of people's hero because I could offer to make their monitor not-painful to look at You knew where the 'On' switch was.
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klosterdev posted:I was a lot of people's hero because I could offer to make their monitor not-painful to look at oh did u stop posting for a while? lol
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