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.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    USB 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, A, B, C connectors, large and small.

    Not even counting the various charging rates and voltages…

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      So? What’s your point? All of those are open specifications.

      Next you’ll tell me that Linux is not open source because Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, X32, X64 architectures, server and home versions. Not even counting the various distros derived from any of them nor the different kernel versions.