You’re from the US, aren’t you?

(Yes, I noticed the “$” sign that makes the list quite narrow but there are many countries where people don’t usually start deep in the red.)

Around 2010 but cheap. I still use it though, the browser built for 2G has very low data usage that goes well with my free 1 MB/day plan (mobile data is expensive in my country). The most annoyingly limiting factor right now is SMS memory (around 50 and just 1 draft that gets lost if it gets full), so I got in the habit of deleting every 2FA code etc. as soon as I use it.

By the way, Nokia 3410 (2001) had like 1 MB of user flash, but still only about 30 events and 100 messages because the “partitions” were fixed, and 20 Java apps (up to 50 kB each) was somehow more important than 10 000 events and 5000 messages. Most users would welcome the latter of course (plus a search feature, it gets tedious with the buttons if you have 100 and only see the sender and ✉️/📂/📨 icon in the list).

I don’t like computers judging me. Do the job, don’t get in the way. I once had a feature phone where the calendar greeted me with:

Today

Your calendar is quite empty! Would you like to add an event?

No, clanker, I don’t have anything here today because you can only remember 30 events and have been replaced with paper. Shut up and show me the what day of the week the 25ᵗʰ is.

Landing on a “leader board” is easier in German. Just look how cheaply you can acquire a “Leiterplatte” and jump on it.

So do CDs. 💿 If you have a player with a see-through lid, you can see the disc rotate around 2.5 times slower on the last track of a near-74/80-minute disc as opposed to the first. This might not apply with modern (2000+) and/or portable ones with cache (ESP) − MP3 support is a good clue it has the advanced electronics for that. And yes, CDs’ track starts at the center to enable shorter, smaller disks.

Players regulate the motor speed based on the data clock (and burners too: there is a pre-recorded “timing” signal even on blank CD-Rs) so technically, a constant-angular-velocity CD could be pressed and played on most players, just with no real benefits.

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That’s true for pretty much any panel size. Especially in 2002, when the TV had barely a processor inside.

Yup! A display you can touch and scratch.

Yup, in my country it’s basically just in specialist shops. Thanks to SCART (universal European RGB A/V cable) and PAL (576p for movies), DVDs look better here than in the US, quite good up to about 40".

This photo was taken after Line 21 subtitles were available (1990s or later). And the TV needs more service than that: vertical linearity and convergence, at least. I can’t judge color decoding in this scene, maybe the tint is just wrong or the red cathode is weak.

Look up how a CRT works. As the beam draws picture fields, it moves downwards across the screen driven by a 59.94Hz sawtooth wave. The generator of this sawtooth wave needs to be synced to the vertical blanking interval between fields. “Vertical hold” refers to how long the oscillator waits before the window in which it can accept the sync pulse. Too soon and the picture scrolls down, too late and the picture scrolls up (however, slightly too late, as long as 1/59.94 seconds is still within the window, is fine and the picture can stabilize after one slow scroll up).

Seeing almost two copies of the picture means V-Hold is very late and the vertical oscillator is running way too slow. About 30-40 Hz, very flickery to the person taking the picture!

Most do but as a higher-frequency (15kHz) oscillator, it has smaller components that don’t drift as much and so the control is a trimmer inside only calibrated as often as a tube needs swapping. On transistor sets, that’s like, never, so they glue the trimmer to avoid misadjustment during transport.

It seems to me that 100 cm is still kid-sized. I’d happily pay double for a 150cm one.

Wart ihr zusammen auf 39c3?

Similar to Horde chess but with an actual king

https://lichess.org/variant/horde

And the what???

The complete title is available on PieFed, which is where the user is from and has a higher character limit:

I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs of transgender people and their identity, and engaging in transphobia?

I wouldn’t be too harsh on OP, I (shamefully) used to have similar views before growing up and becoming an ally. This is a trans-friendly echo chamber but to add people to our side, we need to engage in empathetic discussion with those who have only known outdated perspectives on gender, like my Catholic parents’. See my other comment.

On a lighter note: there are people who understand time pretty well but magnets? How do they work??? (Yes, a real gap in physics)

Reddit being Reddit

The complete title is available on PieFed, which is where the user is from and has a higher character limit:

I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs of transgender people and their identity, and engaging in transphobia?

PLEASE don’t criticize OP for asking what you might see as an insensitive question. I don’t think they have bad intentions and they should be commended for seeking explanations.

I also used to be ignorant or skeptical about gender, back when I was a Christian. But I think you can figure it out like I did.

Basically, trans rights mean that gender is no longer purely about biological sex (and now we know even biological sex isn’t binary, look up intersex people). And gender isn’t really scientific, it’s how a person feels and presents.

If you spend time around queer people (online can be enough) and listen, you’ll develop an understanding of different perspectives on gender. These spaces are meant to be safe (that kind of warmth dragged me in) but therefore please refrain from confronting people there. You might have uncomfortable questions but that’s what [email protected] is for, as opposed to, say, [email protected].

But yeah, to this day I find some queers’ attempts to make the world more inclusive rather unreasonable, like most neopronouns that have been attempted in the heavily-gendered Czech language.

Feel free to ask more questions in this thread or privately, I’m sorry that my peers are so unwelcoming.

Also, you’ve exceeded the character limit so “ir identity, and engaging in transphobia?” got cut off from your title. Unlike on Reddit, you can still edit it on Lemmy.

Baphomet

Are we talking about the same tattoo? It looks like a woman in a dress in your newest post.