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Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

infernal machines posted:

the biggest problem everyone had with it was the software sucked rear end, which stands to reason, it being an android device

yep

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Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

infernal machines posted:

the biggest problem everyone had with it was the software sucked rear end, which stands to reason, it being an android device

oh yeah, by all accounts absolutely irredeemable garbage even taking into account it being android. a shame, i was kind of expecting microsoft to do some weird wsl-style hybrid, which also likely would have struggled to be good, but would have *also* been kind of interesting

# ? Jan 2, 2022 21:21

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

windows mobile with an android emulation layer would only work so far as you'd have to either use goog services which would suck or emulate goog services which would cause other problems.

# ? Jan 2, 2022 21:53

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

# ? Jan 2, 2022 22:09

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

imagine setting your resolution to anything less than the maximum possible

# ? Jan 2, 2022 23:26

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

imagine calling resolution "screen area"?!

# ? Jan 2, 2022 23:31

Raluek: Nov 3, 2006; WUT.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

imagine setting your resolution to anything less than the maximum possible

usually thats only achievable at 60Hz, and gently caress that flickery garbage

maximum at 85Hz, now we're talking

# ? Jan 2, 2022 23:56

mystes: May 31, 2006

Lol index color sucked

# ? Jan 2, 2022 23:59

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

remember when we all tried slackware and it let us do 1280x1024 on a 14" at 50hz interlaced and we thought it was cool for nine minutes until our eyes started bleeding like we were in a 90s scifi horror film

# ? Jan 2, 2022 23:59

Bluemillion: Aug 18, 2008; I got your dispensers
right here

Progressive JPEG posted:

gently caress yeah gonna play some Simcity 2000

# ? Jan 3, 2022 00:00

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Bluemillion posted:

gently caress yeah gonna play some Simcity 2000

there are much, much worse ways to spend the first sunday of 2022

# ? Jan 3, 2022 00:23

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

mobby_6kl posted:

Then Microsoft has a phone just for you!

the only thing wrong with this is it's made by microsoft and runs android

# ? Jan 3, 2022 00:37

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

i remember buying a uhd monitor for my mbp but it didn�t support that kind of bandwidth, so the internet�s solution was to force it to run at 24hz.

my solution instead was to return it

# ? Jan 3, 2022 00:44

Sombrerotron: Aug 1, 2004; Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

imagine setting your resolution to anything less than the maximum possible

i used to have a 17 inch iiyama crt that went up to 1600x1200 but practically speaking you couldn't go much higher than 1024x768 for everyday windows use

it was all right for various 3d games tho

# ? Jan 3, 2022 03:29

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

i had a trinitron that would work at the 1152x864 at 75hz which was a fine compromise for me for years in the 1999 to early-mid 2000s? range that i kept that thing

i specificially remember both the figures on it because 1280x would bump it to like 65hz or something that was undealwithable

# ? Jan 3, 2022 03:33

nurrwick: Jul 5, 2007

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

imagine setting your resolution to anything less than the maximum possible

i had an NEC crt that if i ran it at 1280x1024 instead of 1024x768 it loving screamed at me, it may have been something wrong with it or it may just have been the aforementioned 60hz vs 80 or 85 or whatever the lower res ran at

for a very short whole after i got my first lcd i had buyers remorse for getting something that could only run 60hz but since it turned out fine in the long run, i assume that was refresh rate trauma

# ? Jan 3, 2022 03:45

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

they didn't really do a good job describing how the refresh rates of LCDs worked completely different than CRTs since there weren't "scan lines" per-se anymore.

# ? Jan 3, 2022 04:05

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

what does that mean? i have noticed movies and poo poo being really annoyingly frame-y in my old age and thought it was just my old eyes somehow but maybe the transition to LEDs is what i'm noticing

# ? Jan 3, 2022 04:46

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

Corla Plankun posted:

what does that mean? i have noticed movies and poo poo being really annoyingly frame-y in my old age and thought it was just my old eyes somehow but maybe the transition to LEDs is what i'm noticing

a CRT monitor, like a tube television, draws the image by magnetically directing an energy beam at the screen in horizontal lines very rapidly, then going line to line vertically slightly-less-rapidly.

it's called scan lines, and the refresh rate is how many scans you get of howevermany lines per second.

at low refresh rates, like 60 or less, you can see it flickering as the whole screen gets bright and dark each scan

an LCD displays the entire image at once, with no scanning involved. the refresh rate is how often it updates the status of the pixels. they don't flicker unless there's something else very wrong.

# ? Jan 3, 2022 04:49

TITTIEKISSER69: Mar 19, 2005; SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS

I have a 19" Soyo LCD monitor that I won in 2005. For a while I also had with it a 22" ViewSonic CRT. 1280x1024 with 1360x1024. Also figured out a registry hack to get Windows XP at 168dpi.

# ? Jan 3, 2022 05:29

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

i was using the original 14" CRT on the 486 for a while but switched it to an old viewsonic 4:3 LCD after i was getting headaches. much better, had forgotten how uncomfortable CRTs were after a couple hours

# ? Jan 3, 2022 05:33

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

speaking of headaches, anybody remember dlp projectors? did they ever stop making those? god they were such loving trash

# ? Jan 3, 2022 05:38

EIDE Van Hagar: Dec 8, 2000; Beep Boop

Progressive JPEG posted:

speaking of headaches, anybody remember dlp projectors? did they ever stop making those? god they were such loving trash

for front projectors they�re still the best game in town

# ? Jan 3, 2022 05:52

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

dlp is a really cool thing in concept. all those micro mirrors flipping around dozens of times per second.

in practice i can see the rainbow every time and man is that annoying.

# ? Jan 3, 2022 06:07

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

more than dozens, DLPs vary pixel brightness by rapidly toggling on and off for the duration of the frame display. the ratio of on time to off time is how bright it's perceived

# ? Jan 3, 2022 07:02

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

Corla Plankun posted:

what does that mean? i have noticed movies and poo poo being really annoyingly frame-y in my old age and thought it was just my old eyes somehow but maybe the transition to LEDs is what i'm noticing

maybe your tv still has motion interpolation on, which you should turn off immediately

its like the one thing all of yospos can agree on

# ? Jan 3, 2022 09:47

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Progressive JPEG posted:

speaking of headaches, anybody remember dlp projectors? did they ever stop making those? god they were such loving trash

good DLP projectors are very good, and it�s still basically the defacto standard since laser projectors are expensive as heck yet

most people get a bad taste for DLP projectors because their experience with them is limited to the garbage Dell or similar projectors that their work uses that are only ever designed to display static PowerPoints and nothing else. �business� projectors are trash, through and through.

an actual media projector built to display movies, TV and games is going to be an entirely different experience, assuming it�s built by a big name and isn�t one of those wish.com specials with a single overdriven led powering it.

if you want to talk trash projectors go to your local big box store like target and look at the wide selection of $50-ish projectors they have. literally all of them are a medium sized LED COB shining through a standard def LCD screen and into a plastic lens. people buy these things thinking they�re going to get a $1000+ projector experience and holy lol is it bad

e: look at this lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiprcXje51c

Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Jan 3, 2022

# ? Jan 3, 2022 13:52

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

NoneMoreNegative posted:

cya later Shitlords

hell yeah jet jaguar

# ? Jan 3, 2022 13:54

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

fun projector story: a few years back I was looking for a projector for my basement, because I was tired of the aforementioned business projector I was using at the time with its garbage contrast, blurry motion and �1080i capability� (really 1080i or P, downscaled to 1280x800, approximating 720p).

I was surfing Facebook marketplace at work, as one does and I spotted a really nice projector for sale for $35. the ad said �works, want it gone today�, so thinking it was a total scam, I messaged the seller just to see.

to my surprise she replied back almost instantly and had more pictures of it and answered my questions. she also lived very near to my work so I popped out over lunch to meet her. we met, I inspected the projector, and all seemed well.

however, I couldn�t help myself, so I said �I have to ask, why are you selling this for $35, that�s a really good price�

she goes �my husband cheated on me, I�m leaving him and I�m throwing out everything in his man cave and getting his poo poo out of my house, I want this thing gone�.

so that�s the story of how I got my projector. shout out to that scummy dude who bought a nice projector and then banged someone who wasn�t his wife.

# ? Jan 3, 2022 14:10

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

fun projector story: a few years back I was looking for a projector for my basement, because I was tired of the aforementioned business projector I was using at the time with its garbage contrast, blurry motion and �1080i capability� (really 1080i or P, downscaled to 1280x800, approximating 720p).

I was surfing Facebook marketplace at work, as one does and I spotted a really nice projector for sale for $35. the ad said �works, want it gone today�, so thinking it was a total scam, I messaged the seller just to see.

to my surprise she replied back almost instantly and had more pictures of it and answered my questions. she also lived very near to my work so I popped out over lunch to meet her. we met, I inspected the projector, and all seemed well.

however, I couldn�t help myself, so I said �I have to ask, why are you selling this for $35, that�s a really good price�

she goes �my husband cheated on me, I�m leaving him and I�m throwing out everything in his man cave and getting his poo poo out of my house, I want this thing gone�.

so that�s the story of how I got my projector. shout out to that scummy dude who bought a nice projector and then banged someone who wasn�t his wife.

so you asked, 'what else is for sale' next, right?

# ? Jan 3, 2022 14:40

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

good DLP projectors are very good, and it�s still basically the defacto standard since laser projectors are expensive as heck yet

most people get a bad taste for DLP projectors because their experience with them is limited to the garbage Dell or similar projectors that their work uses that are only ever designed to display static PowerPoints and nothing else. �business� projectors are trash, through and through.

an actual media projector built to display movies, TV and games is going to be an entirely different experience, assuming it�s built by a big name and isn�t one of those wish.com specials with a single overdriven led powering it.

if you want to talk trash projectors go to your local big box store like target and look at the wide selection of $50-ish projectors they have. literally all of them are a medium sized LED COB shining through a standard def LCD screen and into a plastic lens. people buy these things thinking they�re going to get a $1000+ projector experience and holy lol is it bad

e: look at this lol

https://youtu.be/iiprcXje51c

up until like 2018 my dad still had a 1080p rear projection DLP TV that he bought for like $7k in 2004 much to my mother's dismay at the time (she divorced him a few years later; he kept the DLP, which was one part of a great bargain on his part all other things in that divorce considered). eventually it developed a yellow circular-ish spot that would have required spending four thou on a new esoteric part and so instead he spent three thou a brand new fancy-rear end 4K OLED TV

we smashed the poo poo out of that busted rear end DLP TV because it weighed like 800 pounds and had many great smashable parts

# ? Jan 3, 2022 14:43

mystes: May 31, 2006

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

fun projector story: a few years back I was looking for a projector for my basement, because I was tired of the aforementioned business projector I was using at the time with its garbage contrast, blurry motion and “1080i capability” (really 1080i or P, downscaled to 1280x800, approximating 720p).

I was surfing Facebook marketplace at work, as one does and I spotted a really nice projector for sale for $35. the ad said “works, want it gone today”, so thinking it was a total scam, I messaged the seller just to see.

to my surprise she replied back almost instantly and had more pictures of it and answered my questions. she also lived very near to my work so I popped out over lunch to meet her. we met, I inspected the projector, and all seemed well.

however, I couldn’t help myself, so I said “I have to ask, why are you selling this for $35, that’s a really good price”

she goes “my husband cheated on me, I’m leaving him and I’m throwing out everything in his man cave and getting his poo poo out of my house, I want this thing gone”.

so that’s the story of how I got my projector. shout out to that scummy dude who bought a nice projector and then banged someone who wasn’t his wife.

Is this like that Porsche story/joke?

# ? Jan 3, 2022 14:44

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

mystes posted:

Is this like that Porsche story/joke?

I dont know? But its a true story

# ? Jan 3, 2022 14:51

mystes: May 31, 2006

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I dont know? But its a true story

A man in California saw an ad in the paper for an �almost new� Porsche, in excellent condition � price $50. He was certain the printers had made a typographical error, but even at $5,000 it would have been a bargain, so he hurried to the address to look at the car.

A nice-looking woman appeared at the front door. Yes, she had placed the ad. The price was indeed $50. �The car,� she said, �is in the garage. Come and look at it.�

The fellow was overwhelmed. It was a beautiful Porsche and, as the ad promised, �nearly new.� He asked if he could drive the car around the block. The woman said, �Of course,� and went with him. The Porsche drove like a dream. The young man peeled off $50 and handed it over, somewhat sheepishly. The woman gave him the necessary papers, and the car was his.

Finally, the new owner couldn�t stand it any longer. He had to know why the woman would sell the Porsche at such a ridiculously low price. Her reply was simple: With a half-smile on her face, she said, �My husband ran off with his secretary a few days ago and left a note instructing me to sell the car and the house, and send him the money.�

# ? Jan 3, 2022 15:00