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.

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    29 days ago

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

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      29 days ago

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

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        29 days 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.

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          28 days ago

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

          Hope you have a good one :)