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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This article (haven't watched the video yet) makes me feel ancient.

Like, it's clearly written by someone who didn't live through the CRT era. It seems to be repeating things they heard but didn't understand and, frustratingly, that includes not mentioning what the actual rating of the monitor is in KHz, which is really the only thing that matters.

I'm old and my knees hurt. That's the only point I'm making here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I, too, miss the days when you could write literally anything in XF86Config and that’s the signal it would send to your monitor. There was a warning in the docs that you could easily fry your monitor by sending a signal that it couldn’t handle that would cause physical damage so please be careful.

Also, the good monitors came with an all-plastic screwdriver attached on the inside of the case, so that you would have one available that you couldn’t electrocute yourself with on the big capacitor since at that point you’d already revealed that you planned to open the thing up and start fuckin with it.

It was wonderful days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Can't wait to play highly competitive game (moon buggy) in 700hz on my gaming rig (amstrad)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

PC gamers be like "framerate dropped to 675, unplayable"