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I despise the modern phones and internet
eti:
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--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on December 22, 2022, 06:24:37 pm ---like drinking beer, you think its good.. but its not.
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Says who?
I enjoy drinking beer in moderation, it tastes good, it's an enjoyable social activity, there are certainly worse things I could be doing with my time.
Just like with smartphones, moderation is key.
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Beer is vastly overrated. Abstinence from it is underrated to a far greater degree. It does nothing to help except addle one’s mind. I used to drink my fair share - nothing good comes from it. I’d rather drink water, orange, milk or coffee.
themadhippy:
--- Quote --- It does nothing to help except addle one’s mind.
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it stopped people getting cholera,and kickstarted forensic science
Mechatrommer:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 29, 2022, 08:32:08 am ---
--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on December 22, 2022, 06:24:37 pm ---like drinking beer, you think its good.. but its not.
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I enjoy drinking beer in moderation, it tastes good, it's an enjoyable social activity, there are certainly worse things I could be doing with my time.
Just like with smartphones, moderation is key.
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not everybody can control it wisely as you did... much like gun (in the hand of police/army vs in the hand of normal/random people).. although its debatable if society can tolerate some random killing, we dont, and we are happy that random killing using gun is almost unheard of around here. i would not like deeper into this off topic... because this is a "choice"... we can always choose any other "X" to drink as enjoyable social activity, but its a tradition choosen by the people before.. continued by people of today... says who? says (i mean "proven" by) google/statistics... "moderation" as you said is quite an optimistic solution in some society groups/classes. around here, i see nothing better out of people who drink beer (90% people i heard will go drunk and bad things happened) it started as "enjoyable social activity", but when somethings went bad, having a bad day, lose job etc, beer is the solution (in the end... not)..
AndyBeez:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 29, 2022, 05:24:44 am ---...
Sometimes it's easy to feel nostalgic about certain tech, but CRTs are actually one thing I don't really miss at all. I do have a few I keep in storage for old time sake but I would not even want to use them unless I decide to build a retro PC setup for fun or something. CRT TVs are also good if you want to break out the NES and play duck hunt.
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Agreed. As a young I.T. Guy, I ranked monitors only second in the silicon hell of tech torment to 1990s laser printers. The worse lumps were Ilyama monitors which, for some reason of CRT purity, had extra magnetic shielding. The business had dozens of these, all for DTP and Photo-crapping. At least these were 10 kilos lighter than the offerings from IBM, which were used to access the then Mainframe.
I too retain one CRT in the guise of a 14 inch Philips TV for that real Atari console gaming experience. I guess for the young generation it must feel like playing pinball on a real pinball machine?
james_s:
I still have and use lots of CRT displays, I've always liked them and still do. We had some Llyama monitors at a place I worked in the early 2000's and they were superb, nicer than anything I had at home until much later. I finally retired the Trinitron monitor from my desktop PC in 2015 because the new PC I built had poor support for analog VGA. I still have a Trinitron XBR TV downstairs that is mostly used with classic console games and a collection of classic arcade machines that are all CRT. There's also a handful of vintage computers with CRT monitors, I find that LCD just looks weird on a vintage machine. CRTs look better to me than LCD, the only thing LCD offers is compact size and perfect geometry, which are big features but if I could have a good quality CRT without the bulk I'd choose it in most applications.
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