Were you there for this?

We went from the twin lead coming from the antenna on the roof, to the coaxial stapled along the outside wall, coming in through a hole in the wall near the TV and connecting to a box, which connected to the antenna in. Then the VCR comes in and the TV got a coaxial in. Then we had the RCA component in on the TV, along with RGB. That’s where CRT input ends.

There’s the TOSLINK, but I think that was only for audio hardware.

Then HDMI, and probably other ones I’m forgetting.

I was there for all of it. Including the rabbit ears antenna on “portable” CRT TVs. And, the Sony Watchman.

Do I remember? I’m fucking 60, I remember everything y’all ask about and much more. I remember when my 16" 1024 X 768 monitor died and I rushed to Staples before they closed to pay $400 for a 14" monitor, which was as much as I could afford at that moment. But, how far back do you want to go? MS-DOS 2.0 on a 12" amber monitor (I didn’t like green)? I was there.

My current “big” TV is a 1920 X 1080 14-year-old 55" Toshiba dumb TV.

I got a 27" 4K monitor a few months ago, when my old monitor died. I have my second, old 1920 x 1080 monitor next to it. Yes, I can tell the difference, but only in text, not in video.

I wouldn’t mind having a 100" OLED 4K TV, but for two things. I don’t want to pay for it, but I would pay for it, except I’m afraid it would die in a couple of years, because my experience has been that new appliances are crap. So, I’ll just stick with my old TV, and be happy that it’s much better than my 27" Sharp CRT it replaced.

Now excuse me while I go look at new TVs.

What sort of “reviews”?

TBF, porn is the foundation of the entire internet.

I don’t care for many types of parquet flooring patterns done in wood, especially basket weave, and to a lesser extent, herringbone.

Kids have a way of happening.

A hundred years from now, there will be a small dip on the chart for this time, that’s it.

“… in Google Docs”

Well, there ya go.

The finger works pretty universally.

Yeah, I’m fine with giving up something I never used.

And, from what I’ve read many of the people who use it for work only do so to appease their idiot bosses.

Wha?

They could just stop putting it in right now, and then “transition to natural colors” when it happens.

They could even come up with some stupid fiction about why it was happening--the parrot has sensitive eyes so they had to turn off the color, and then they learn that a little color is okay. Or a bad guy turned off the color in froot loops land, and the parrot had to defeat the bad guy and turn it back on, but they can’t turn it up too high, or the bad guy will return.

There’s a short downward slope at the peak, and then it just drops straight down. Assuming you don’t just die at your desk at work.

Maybe most of their business is online.

Also, I imagine most of their walk-ins come in to buy a specific book they found on their website, rather than wait for delivery.

If keeping the books pristine didn’t offset whatever they lose by letting people browse didn’t work for them, they wouldn’t do it.

Maybe, also, the store is located a culture of higher than normal germophobes. People who are overly worried about touching things other people have touched.

I disabled watch history and the default front page is blank for me--tells me to enable watch history. The only place I see recommended videos now is the side bar that shows on the video watch page, which are more relevant than the default home page.

I only watch on desktop, it might be different on phone.

I’m glad they do this so I know to avoid their channel. I know their content is likely not something I’m interested in spending my time viewing when I see the thumbnail following whatever the current trend is.

I’m not too interested in the fluffy stuff. But on the occasions I am, it’s easy to find.

For instance, sometimes I like to watch travel vlogs. I avoid the ones that have thumbnails showing the face of the vlogger in every thumbnail, with just one exception, Dale Philip. He also has the most subscribers of anyone I’m subscribed to, by far.

The internet allows people in small minority groups to gather virtually and speak loudly as one. Be they trans people or fucking idiots.

I think what surprised us all is just how many fucking idiots there are. I mean, before the internet, there was always one or maybe two in a social group the other’s needed to keep in check. They were dispersed somewhat evenly throughout society. But, now, they just find each other online and there’s no one nearby to watch over them, or tell them they’re stupid and to shut up.

Depends on the advice. If they’re talking about their mistakes, that can be informative. But, if they discuss their mistakes and then say “… and this is what you should do, instead”, that’s just unproven speculation on their part.

But, at the end of the day, relationship advice is mostly useless, because only the most general advice works for everyone. The specific issues between two, complex people can’t be understood and advised for by listening to one side of the story for a few minutes.