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.

  • @Nibodhika
    6•9 hours ago

    The protocol of communication of computer parts is open source? Since when?

    Since forever, which protocol do you think it’s not? For a few examples here’s PCI and DDR5

    What the fuck is USB? And why is that proprietary?

    USB is a standardized connector, with again an open source protocol. Here’s the specification in case you’re interested https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-20-specification

    Regardless, AMD vs nVidia might work together, but not optimally these days.

    I would need a source for that, I’ve had AMD +Nvidia up until very recently and it worked as expected.

    • @over_clox
      -2•5 hours ago

      USB is absolutely not a standardized connector, otherwise it would only be one type of connector, not the dozen or so they’ve made over the decades. There’s nothing universal about it.

      And if it was open source, then why doesn’t VirtualBox release the source code for their USB extension package?