I saw a 16:9 CRT in the trash a few years ago, it had just started to rain, the time it took to arrange secure transport it was soaked, so I passed. I didn’t feel like I could deal with the size and weight of the thing if I had to repair it as well.

But they do show up now and then.

I’m as atheistic as they come but I’ll maybe ask a demiurge for that to happen.

The sheer amount of AI slop shorts on YouTube must be generating entire dollars in revenue by now. Who isn’t entertained and eagerly awaiting the next five million videos of the same scenario over and over again?

If you have a better way of generating videos of absurdly obese Olympic divers doing the bomb from a crane, I’d love to hear it.

Way ahead of you Luddites

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https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/ukwjwa/anyone_remember_this_scam/

first link died for some reason, probably not enough RAM

Goodness, how am I supposed to store and stream more entertainment than I could watch in a lifetime now?

Computers are too powerful and too cheap. Bring back COBOL, painfully expensive CPU time, and some sort of basic knowledge of what’s actually going on.

Pain for everyone!

But the stories of Russians under my bed stealing my washing machine’s CPU are totally real.

Good, do Fark next.

HDCP?

Did you just make up “hate” from an imaginary argument you made up? I am simply baffled by the behavior and “needs” of people these days. In what universe is limiting “remote streaming” a problem? How many hours a day do you need to be entertained for?

It’s more like I’m surrounded by compulsive hoarders and chronic upgraders, for what? You can’t watch any more movies than you have conscious free hours in a day. I don’t get it anymore.

Computers used to solve problems, now they are the problem.

I thought you were going to say “by wearing a kilt”.

Food is essential, the new shiny way to gobble more RAM to display a blue mushroom in a button isn’t.

Or… we could learn to code software so the average mouse driver doesn’t require a gig of free RAM, 10 gigs of swap space, and 15 CPU cores?

Just a thought.

So how am I supposed to get pictures of absurdly obese gaily dancing IT nerds in kilts now!?

Sorry, I didn’t read your reply, I was streaming every movie, album, book, and magazine in existence to every location in the universe at all times. Even when I blink I have 16K screens inside my eyelids.

This is normal behavior in 2025. If you cut off my terabit stream, I will writhe on the ground and scream.

I am not in any way addicted to digital hoarding or continuously upgrading systems that have already exceeded the capacity of any normal person to watch a movie since 20 years.

Said the needle to the arm. You’re all addicts.

Seems pretty simple to parse, what is causing you an issue? What is not clear?

Imagine being so addicted to having every nanosecond of your waking life filled with noise and colors that this announcement means anything.

Well if you know of a better way to generate pictures of comically obese bearded men gayly dancing, I’d love to hear it.