Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : Otto Reverse
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Feb 21 2022 22:10:49

 OR> I have a 17" CRT but the thing takes up a ton of space ("back in the
 OR> day" I had a 19" ViewSonic) and I'd rather a 14" or 15" at this point.
 OR> But they just don't show up for sale locally.
 OR> 

I had a 20inch Trintro flat screen CRT.  1600x1200.  It weighed as much as the desk, but was quite an awesome screen.  Sadly it died and I moved to LCD after that.  I like LCD but it doesn't quite look the same in terms of the deep black and vibrant colours.

 OR> Roadside pickups haven't been a thing here (Nova Scotia) for a decade or
 OR> more. The provincial government made "recycling" mandatory. The thrift
 OR> shops avoided them like the plague after that as they would be
 OR> responsible for recycling if a donation was unsellable. The recycling
 OR> depots won't let you take anything that someone has dropped off either. 
 OR> So from about 2010 or so onwards all these older PC's just ended up
 OR> being shipped off to some third world nation. The thrift stores are
 OR> starting to take older PC's now. Pentium 4 and up it seems. But still,
 OR> there aren't many.
 OR> 

In Melbourne, Australia, it's against council regulation to pick up hard rubbish from the street.  Another one of the stupid laws we have here.  People will dump garbage on the street to go into landfill, but you're not allowed to take it to give it a second life.  The same people who ban this will talk about sustainability etc.  Still, we pick stuff up but computers are rare now.

Annoying, some people would cut the cables off their monitors.  Don't know why.  Maybe the wanted to salvage a small bit of copper, or maybe they were petty knobs who didn't want other people being able to use it.

 OR> Nice. I bought a GeForce 2 online recently but it has lines and needs
 OR> baking lol.  A project for another time. 
 OR> 
 OR> lol, c'mon. eDonkey via Proton is a must have!
 OR> 

I never actually used eDonkey myself!

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