There was a techno British invasion in the US when The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers were getting a lot of attention. Trent Reznor’s nothing records ported over some works from Warp’s Squarepusher and Plaid, and Astralwerks brought µ-ziq.

I found this classic for $2 used when I recognized the name as someone who remixed Aphex Twin, who we knew from Come To Daddy and Windowlicker. It was weird at first but eventually placed it as similar to some Luke Vibert, who we had also recently discovered… running through classical, breakbeat, hip-hop, drum (& drill) & bass, acid… sometimes seemingly all at once!

I already had GameNative but this is awesome and hilarious. Played some Portal on my old phone. 😳

I was there, chat. I was there 3,000 years ago. The worst part was not being able to unsee the 60Hz flicker of the fluorescent lights. Less like being in a book, more like being in a flipbook animation on the page corners.

Ez-Flash 3 makes you patch all your games that save with a proprietary Windows program. Screw that. SuperChis is the best!

That’s normal for unlicensed ports. It just seems especially silly in this case because the package with the required assets is no longer for sale and it’s also “digital” so there are no copies in the resale market.

But I gotta catch 'em all!

kids these days don’t know proper english smh my head

If these damn things are always-connected, always-sharing your location with manufacturer and their 1793 partners, they are able to have the vehicle direct you to an open charger.

Has anyone done anything cool with RK3568? I have these Odroid-M1 that are otherwise pretty useless.

It’s Odin’s-day, my druidess.

Sony closed Studio Liverpool 14 years ago.

Hilariously, the video cartridges are blocked from working on GameCube Game Boy Player. We can’t have you watching videos you paid for, on the TV!

The capacitors are the same ones that are in every desktop PC power supply.

The flyback is a complex transformer with the thick cable sending the high voltage to the tube’s second anode.

The CRT itself can act like a giant capacitor. Eventually they figured out how to bleed the charge out when the TV is off.

1990s-2000s tubes: I discharge but don’t worry too much. 1980s-1990s tubes: I discharge several times, over the course of an hour or two. Those Sanyos that Nintendo used hold a nasty charge that comes out with a big SNAP!

I have a 27" Trinitron and could barely get it into my car by myself. Probably my best curb find ever.

Edit: 108lbs. And 900 US dollars new, in the year 2000; equivalent to $1,750 today.

I would say “mostly harmless”; a low but higher-than-background level of X-rays are expected from a properly functioning CRT TV. Flying in an airliner will expose a person to many times that amount.

Nobody calls sunlight “radioactive” either but it does expose a person to some ionizing radiation.

Oof. Actual fire? We had a CRT TV that would flash red once in a great while. It was fine until my mom found my brother asleep in front of it, flickering all red constantly, with smoke pouring out the back!

I know now that it was likely just a failed transistor on the neck board. I’ve seen a lot of smoke and some plasma but never a fire from a CRT.

TVs have their own degaussing coil built-in, it’s the short buzz you hear first when the TV is turned on.

If the metal frame around the front of the tube becomes strongly magnetized, that’s when the distortion is “permanent”, meaning it’s not permanent but not really feasible to fix.

I repair arcade games and often mention to curious onlookers: “Fifty years of putting miniature particle accelerators in every home and business!”

In fact, there wasn’t a lot of options for a desktop-focused Linux.

You got it right, here. I used Ubuntu 20 years ago because it was the only Linux distro I found that gave a GUI at all out-of-the-box on an average consumer video card. I still dual-booted for games, OFC.

Does The Guardian no longer provide sources? I wanted to see who voted for and against it.

https://rules.house.gov/bill/119/hr-4795