#Tech Tech Tech Tech
river ice
CRTs provide an unique image that you cant get on modern display
simply by the way they work
valid rivet
CRTs provide an unique image that you cant get on modern display
What's the unique image?
I never looked into it
river ice
did you think people when they were watching TV that was on 480i or playing Atari games felt like it looked bad?
no
it looked incredible
because they were media created for those displays
valid rivet
iirc my grandma had a CRT
because whenever you touched the screen
you would hear an electrical buzzing sound
valid rivet
https://youtu.be/Vg98w_ulzDc
anyway watch this video wise good shit
to prove how dangerous AC is?
river ice
ye
valid rivet
I do wonder tho if it's actually worth it to restore my ps 1 and ps 2 in the age of emulators
tidal lotus
CRTs provide an unique image that you cant get on modern display
What exactly? (I believe you are talking about motion blur )
From what I know is that OLEDS have deeper blacks
The only thing that crt beats oled is response time
Please don’t try this till you don’t have any prior experience
Just an advice
tidal lotus
CRTs worked by firing a beam of electrons at the back of the television screen. Occasionally, this would have the side-effect of charging the glass
It is the static you are feeling
What exactly are you asking about?
valid rivet
What exactly are you asking about?
What type of signal that is
Since I have seen it a lot on various devices
is it just an alternative to AV?
tidal lotus
What type of signal that is
Like “how do optical signals turn digital?”
Or you are asking about optical audio
tidal lotus
fiber optic cable is used to send an audio signal between two devices
In theory it can transmit both analog and digital data
digital is much easier to work around
So in practice it’s used for digital signals
was the best format for sending high-quality digital audio back then
But now it’s replaced by HDMI
valid rivet
always forget that HDMI handles both
open saffron
@broken rapids how're you liking the phone?
broken rapids
I love it so much, it was definitely a major change from my huawei, it has a super unique design and I loved tweaking with the settings
The camera zoom sucks tbh but I never really zoom in anyways
open saffron
aw damn
open saffron
I love it so much, it was definitely a major change from my huawei, it has a sup...
that's great!!
broken rapids
I didn't have gesture navigation before and it makes my life so much easier and fluent
open saffron
I love gestures
broken rapids
Zenfone 10 comes out this year
Depending on how it is I might sell this again and buy the new one shkdjd8
I couldn't wait
open saffron
I love it so much, it was definitely a major change from my huawei, it has a sup...
does it have some unique stuff from stock? as far as settings?
open saffron
Depending on how it is I might sell this again and buy the new one shkdjd8
loool yeah?
tidal lotus
Why would consumers need this?
Or even gen6
Biostar already released a gen6 variant motherboard lol
Looks like a cash grab
Gen 4 is enough
Wouldn’t pam4 cause higher bit error rate
It’s signaling is more sensitive to noise
Very interested how they would handle encoding and decoding and it’s effect on cpu
More beefy cpus on their way?
Also what do you all think about Apple vision pro?
Closing down the iPhone lineup after 15 is a very risky move, would hurt them severely
Do you plan on buying one, do you think that AR is the future
(I think it’s still too early for something like this)
But again lots of fucking morons will get one, even if they need to get a loan
Apple can certainly push it as the new standard given their influence
Also there’s already a problem (Smartphones are getting too many cameras and are too large)
This makes me remember apple’s iphone 5 launch event
(How they promoted small size phones)
And how absurdly large did new iphones have become now (Perfect sized phones are a niche nowadays)
vale flint
how are we on to gen 7 already 
Can you even buy pcie 6 drives yet?
tidal lotus
800gig ethernet baby
I think it’s probably for enterprise
But yeah even pci gen 5 drives makes no difference on consumer platforms
Direct storage will take time to implement
tidal lotus
how are we on to gen 7 already <:despair:934613294579318844> Can you even buy p...
Bandwidth doubles every 2 years
So i think, it would arrive sometime in 2025
But wouldn’t be too surprised if it didn’t happen, technology is arriving it’s stagnation point by current standards
Also gen5 ssds requires so much cooling
Gen6 ssd would probably need an aio for it
valid rivet
Thinking about looking for a CRT lately
But I would have no idea where to put it/not sure my table would hold it
tidal lotus
Crt’s are really heavy
You would need a firm table
tidal lotus
broken rapids
should I use fedora for coding? I am learning C next semester and we HAVE to use Linux but I'm not sure which distri
tidal lotus
You can use any distro for development
generally it doesn't matter, but it does help to have the exact same versions of everything for testing
broken rapids
i want to play around with virtual machines thats wh
open saffron
yeah whatever distro suits your needs should sork
as long as whatever IDE you want to use runs on it then should be fine
broken rapids
i want to use vim 💀
open saffron
oh that'll work on any then lmao
have fun, I've always avoided learning the keybindings lmao
seems to be a good workflow for a lot of people tho
also I ended up flashing a custom rom
I'm finding magisk more appealing than the rom itself tho
open saffron
also I ended up flashing a custom rom
tried lineageos and paranoid android and tbh I was a lil disappointed
I think custom roms are good for extending the life of certain devices but I was looking for customization options and they're not the best for that anymore
magisk is tho, I'm gonna use that with my phone's stock rom
open saffron
@broken rapids have you started using vim yet?
I'm thinking of giving it a try with neovim
thought this dashboard thing was cool
I like how this person uses it
broken rapids
omg that DOES look epico
i didnt have the chance yet but i will try to spend my summer getting accustomed to it
idk if the word is used correctly here
open saffron
yeah that fits
I was between vim and emacs but I think I'll go with vim cuz emacs seems to require a lot of setup
I think I would spend more time customizing it than actually using it
broken rapids
god i know that feeling lsjdf
open saffron
yeahhh
that's how I am anyways but I think it would be worse
emacs is an operating system basically
like
you can have an email client, web browser, etc
broken rapids
i never heard of it personally but what you are saying makes me more interested in emacs than vim
open saffron
I mean it depends on what you're looking for
vim is more straightforward I think
but both are pretty extensible
if you want some more info
broken rapids
hmm
midnight nymphBOT
broken rapids
i can use vim keybinds in almost any IDE
open saffron
tru
they're pretty universal
you could also program emacs to use vim keybinds but
kinda counterintuitive
open saffron
have any of you used NixOS? thinking of switching over to it from Arch
open saffron
yeah it uses smth called declarative configuration which I don't understand completely but basically all the system configuration exists in one configuration file. so it's much easier to setup your configuration on a new device or when reinstalling. also if you install smth or make a change that breaks things, it's really easy to rollback to the previous state. same with new system versions and stuff. you can also test packages without installing them? it handles dependencies and stuff differently too. idk it sounds more streamlined and more open to experimentation to me
there's the full operating system and also just a package manager that can be used on any distro
this article laid it out better I think
tidal lotus
yeah it uses smth called declarative configuration which I don't understand comp...
That’s really useful
open saffron
yeah!!
I'm thinking of trying it out along with wayland
just looking into it more
idk if it's got the support/community that arch has tho
tidal lotus
I love this
open saffron
if your eyes aren't bleeding, what's the point?
severe phoenix
have any of you used NixOS? thinking of switching over to it from Arch
I can't believe I'd never seen this thread.
I've also been wanting to try Nix.
For work stuff.
open saffron
I can't believe I'd never seen this thread.
you should hang out in here more!
open saffron
I've also been wanting to try Nix.
yeah it looks neat, complicated tho
I'm waiting until I have the time to sit down and figure it out