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What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? (pawb.social)

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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.

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[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Portable consoles. They're dead now or replaced by indie shit. No, the switch doesn't count, if it can't fit in my pocket isn't portable.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Counterpoint: A modern SBC Console from China (Retroid, Anbernic, whatever) will play a library in the thousands of titles, WHILE fitting in your pocket AND having a modern screen.

[-] stingpie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Countercounterpoint: Emulation is not as cool as the real thing. Especially for the PSP because it was basically a tiny DVD player.

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 7 points 4 hours ago

The indie shit is great tho. Analogue Pocket is an outstanding gaming device to run a whole bunch of portable console games (and some originally non-portable consoles too, like Genesis/Megadrive)

And folks are still making and sometimes even selling Gameboy games right now in 2024

Indie is great, and honestly vital when so much mainstream/AAA shit is such shit

[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

I don't wanna deal with crappy controls or needing to install and research roms online

[-] noxy@yiffit.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

controls are very very good and it's intended for use with cartridges. no roms needed - hell it's actually a little extra effort to run rom files on it.

https://www.analogue.co/pocket

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

I think indie is pretty cool. Its at the point where you can basically design a console by yourself. You can emulate up to ps2 on some of them so you got all the classics in your pocket.

[-] jeffers00n@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Very much agree. I'd love if Valve would consider filling this niche considering the great success of the Steam Deck. A small clam-shell handheld sized like the GBA SP or the DS.

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