I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?

I can’t afford to donate to them currently, so have a Lemmy silver to go towards you !lemmysilver

I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I’ve found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.

It’s quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can’t really go obsolete.

Thanks for the heads up - it’ll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn’t want to blow it up when it could’ve been prevented easily by maintaining it.

Thank you both for the advice, this was exactly what I needed - I know absolutely nothing about CRT maintenance but I have tinkered inside plenty other electronics before.

Before I do anything on it I’ll be doing all the research I can to ensure it’s as safe as possible and avoiding areas that can’t be discharged, and otherwise hunting within my friend circles for a CRT guy who can help me with it.

Edit: this will all serve as a lesson for me taking on a more ambitious project I have, an iMac G3 that doesn’t post. Unsure at this stage if the CRT works or not in it, but I believe something is wrong with the PC’s PSU currently

Welllllllll… A couple points to mention are that it is SVGA but interlaced, so I’m doing a bit of messing with xrandr to get that working but otherwise it is happy doing 800x600 progressive

I also meant that I didn’t need to do any work to it - it has a couple minor issues as mentioned but didn’t have any major components that have failed (like the flyback for instance)

Also yes I’m based in Australia so 240v is standard here

The ultimate plan is to have a full retro setup, and I will piece it together as I come across more components that I think will fit.

The dream would be a PC from about 2000, running Win2k but dual booted with something old like Win3.11 and/or DOS, and period accurate (but still comfortable) peripherals, so keyboard, mouse, and speakers.

Until I get a nice computer to pair with it (that is, not my Linux server), this just felt right to do with it

That was ultimately what I did - apart from a single instance, I haven’t logged into my Reddit account since the API changes.

I feel that any engagement is good to them (even with an adblocker), not to mention when spez said “You’ll all come back.”

I was so sad when my Nexus 7 gave up the ghost (quite literally fizzled and nothing more) but I got a solid 10 years out of it.

I loved how easy they were to work on, the NFC, the unlockable bootloader, the ROM support, headphone jack of course. We didn’t know how good we had it then.

It’s very likely that I saw a repost, but I also remember that imagery on Reddit too, so you aren’t alone (on Lemmy at least) in coming across that post. Wish I had a link or something to help you find it.

I’ve never really given any credibility to the Tiananmen Square denials but that post cemented any possible doubt I could have had.

Hey ChatGPT, I’m a dork who works for a local council and we are cutting costs by removing two bins from a local forestry. Can you come up with a sign that spins the removal of these bins into a positive?

Can you imagine the confusion of a dead animal just falling in your front yard and witnessing that? This coworker’s spawning a whole ass religion

Been degoogled for years at this point:

• Stock Android --> LineageOS or GrapheneOS (no gapps)
• YouTube --> Invidious*, NewPipe
• Google Search --> DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
• Google Play Store --> F-Droid, Aurora Store

I’ve also decoupled from other similar services:

• Outlook --> ProtonMail
• Calendar --> Nextcloud*
• OneDrive --> Nextcloud*
• Windows, macOS --> Linux (after years of distrohopping, I found LMDE is incredibly stable while still being a nice “out of box” distro)
• Google Maps, Apple Maps --> OSMAnd, Organic Maps

I never used any online password manager myself, I went from writing passwords in a literal book to KeePass, to now Vaultwarden* for that

* - self hosted

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Why does that quote from Krasnov immediately give Russia vibes 🤔