theunknownmuncher @ theunknownmuncher @lemmy.world

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Tell that to my eyes lol. It's easy to see flickering of 60Hz on a CRT displaying a white screen.

It's totally normal to perceive flickering at 60Hz

You're describing a typical budget CRT, and like typical budget flat screen panels today, they did suck. BUT...

CRT is a superior display technology and high end tubes have only recently been maybe matched in quality by specifically OLED. Manufacturers did not switch to flat panels because of superior quality, they did it because they are much cheaper to manufacture, handle, transport, and are more appealing to consumers due to energy use, weight, size/aspect ratio, and less configuration.

I have a Trinitron tube, which runs at 1600x1200@85Hz native (nearly the same number of pixels as full HD) and can be run at significantly higher resolutions, or lower resolutions at significantly higher Hz.

You mention flicker, which is a problem for typical budget low Hz CRTs, but is not a problem for better, high Hz tubes.

wider color gamut, more accurate colors, higher contrast ratio

Plainly incorrect. OLED is the first flat panel technology to basically match a CRT in image quality. CRT shows true black and near perfect color, they also can display any resolution without interpolation because they do not have pixels (a 720p image/video will look absolutely terrible displayed on a 1080p flat screen, but perfect on a CRT), and CRTs partially activate posphors for a more accurate image detail than the equivalent discrete pixel resolution. My Trinitron tube's detail is only limited by the spacing of the aperature grille, not the number of posphors. So comparing resolution is kind of apples to oranges. And this is why old low res games did actually look better on a CRT than they do now when played on modern flat screens. Example (this example uses a slot mask, not aperature grille, but still shows the effect of partially activated posphors):

There are real benefits to OLED (weight, size, wide aspect ratios [wide aspet ratios are only better for watching movies or TV though, worse for playing games or productivity/web browsing], energy use, gimmick refresh rates, gimmick resolutions like 4K and beyond), but picture quality is not one of them.

The biggest benefit to a CRT for me, besides true blacks, is input latency for competitive gaming. I don't understand how people can play games on flat screens with the cursor lagging behind the mouse's true position/movement. I guess you just get used to it and your brain adjusts for it, but having only really gamed on CRT, it is horrible any time I sit down at a friend's computer to play something.

I still use a CRT as my only computer monitor (its significantly better than LCD; OLED is maybe equivalent to CRT picture quality nowadays)

I love cucumber, and I enjoy chewing on watermelon rind

https://kfocus.org/ these are really nice laptops with full linux support

It just added a hash of the password to your posts so that others could verify which user made the post. These hashes were easily cracked though. The username could be anything you want. There was no account creation

wouldn't it be so much fucking easier to just bring him back?

There's a reason he had fled to the US and was protected with asylum, and a reason that the US was not supposed to deport him back to El Salvador. He was probably dead as soon as he was sent back.

Bear, no contest

So here's your chance to clarify your statement and represent it the way you intended

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

Your choice example of technology to support IP laws is.... something that was created publically and is a collection of open, public standards 🤦🤦🤦 do you think the internet is patented...? By who??? Lmao

The internet is literally the peak example that proves IP laws are unnecessary for innovation and actually inhibits it. And yes, good observation that IP laws predate the internet. They are antiquated by it and no longer relevant in a post-internet world.

No no no the world has always worked the way my flawed ideology requires!!!!

that technology never would have existed in the first place

Oh gee, a wildly incorrect assumption

So... what, are you denying that open source software exists because people have to pay bills...?

Was this said sarcasm? I can't tell

You're on the internet...

This is the kind of culture you get and deserve when you allow corporations to control your country and culture

Somebody convince me to try them!

Don't bother, they've been garbage since 2008. Putting the same name on cash grab trash and riding the coattails of genuinely great originals. Stanard EA