I don’t mean BETTER. That’s a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That’s just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

  • Count Regal InkwellOP
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    2 months ago

    I fucking hate cars, including electric ones… And I still agree. Combustion engines are cool as hell.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thoughts on motorcycles? Totally fine if you really don’t like them either, I’m just curious :)

      • Count Regal InkwellOP
        2·
        2 months ago

        Grudging respect.

        I don’t like motorcycles either, but they are the “noble steed” of my country’s entire service industry, and being a worker in said service industry is a very sucky (and dangerous!) position to be in.

        So I don’t like bikes. But. I respect their riders. Their lives are hard and they are therefore stronger than I.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Interesting, that’s very different in my country so I appreciate hearing your perspective!

          Hope you have a good one :)