JustARegularNerd

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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel it always has been rigged, it's just that the rigging has always been so incompetent

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll add to this too, taken a while ago of my old car in an Australian shopping mall, and Nissan Patrols aren't even the most egregious here.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

No, this is victim blaming - Samsung does something very anti-privacy and anti-consumer and you blame the user because of the way they use their phone? You are detracting responsibility from the company that has started doing this.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I thought you were going to link to a Trabant, but I'll also be with you that any vehicle in Robert's fleet is more durable and better designed.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It was posted to the Reddit thread (I too reached into the depths to find it).

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's what my previous job did exactly - I put my application in and answered some custom questions they had. My future supervisor calls me and we talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked me to come in for an actual interview. Did the interview and next week found out I was hired.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. Study laptops are on Linux Mint Debian Edition, gaming PC is on CachyOS currently but it changes all the time, had Bazzite on it beforehand

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine you could filter it with uBlock right?

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't afford to donate to them currently, so have a Lemmy silver to go towards you !lemmysilver

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I've found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.

It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can't really go obsolete.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up - it'll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn't want to blow it up when it could've been prevented easily by maintaining it.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you both for the advice, this was exactly what I needed - I know absolutely nothing about CRT maintenance but I have tinkered inside plenty other electronics before.

Before I do anything on it I'll be doing all the research I can to ensure it's as safe as possible and avoiding areas that can't be discharged, and otherwise hunting within my friend circles for a CRT guy who can help me with it.

Edit: this will all serve as a lesson for me taking on a more ambitious project I have, an iMac G3 that doesn't post. Unsure at this stage if the CRT works or not in it, but I believe something is wrong with the PC's PSU currently

 

Last week I made a post asking if I should buy an old vintage monitor.

Well, I went back to the recycled goods store this week and it was still there, so $30 later I have it, and it seems to just work*

There's very little about this monitor on the internet, so I'm thinking of documenting as much as I can about it, especially as it's Osborne branded so there could be some interesting history behind it.

* The power button is stuck on, and it does an occasional unsettling arc sound and the image slightly distorts for a millisecond. I believe the latter is fairly common among old CRTs but I don't know much more than that.

 

Hello!

I came across a cosmetically good condition CRT monitor at the local recycled goods shop, but I can't seem to find much information about it.

It is an Osborne MPV 1024 14" CRT monitor. I was able to find a manual for it on the Internet Archive, and an old forum question about using it with a then new Windows 95 machine, but that's about it.

The thing that confuses me though is that I wasn't aware of Osborne making individual computer monitors, or peripherals of any kind. I also don't seem to see anyone online talking about these monitors.

I want to find out if it's rare or otherwise special in some way, or if it's just a generic CRT monitor of the 80s/90s that just reused the Osborne branding.

 

I have an older Intel laptop that has a 1600x900 display, and I find that if I put the machine to sleep, connect an external monitor with a higher resolution, and then turn it back on, the login screen doesn't adjust to the new resolution and it reveals what I had open (see photo).

However, I'm not that familiar with Linux Mint (even though I've daily driven Linux for nearly 10 years, I very casually use LMDE) and I'm not sure if this is a Cinnamon problem or if the lock screen is under a different program.

Looking at Linux Mint's webpage on reporting a bug (https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html) they seem to mostly use Cinnamon as an example, but I don't want to report this issue as a Cinnamon issue if it's the wrong project.

In case this is platform specific, my device's details are below:

  • Host: Dell Latitude E6420
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-2630QM (Sandy Bridge)
  • GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
  • Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64
  • DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4
  • WM: Mutter (Muffin)
  • Display Server: X11

I've never filed a bug report in my life before, usually I just put up with the issue until it's eventually fixed, but I feel this is a moderate security issue that should be flagged.

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