Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter

• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  have you really used a CRT if you haven’t learned how to smack it back into working?

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  • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good ol percussion maintenance

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like they didn’t know how to hit it right to me

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• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think the difference is that they where build to be repairable. Back in the 70s and 80s a large screen tv was a status symbol, and a top end model could cost multiple months of salary and last 10 years or more.

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