Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : boraxman
From : Otto Reverse
Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 16:55:38

 bo> I had a 20inch Trintro flat screen CRT.  1600x1200.  It weighed as much
 bo> as the desk, but was quite an awesome screen.  Sadly it died and I moved

That must have been one sweet monitor. Those Trinitrons were some of the best tubes (tv or monitor) out there.

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

From the "Hi, we're from the government and we're hear to help" file.  Seems to be universal the world over.

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

Yeah I've seen that here too. I always thought it was businesses disposing of them and because they were once depreciable assets that they got zero bucks for when they "disposed" of them, they cut the cords to prevent a "scrounger" from getting any value out of it.  Petty indeed.

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