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JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks agoThe heavy part truly cannot be overstated. I recently got a tiny CRT, not even a cubic foot in size. It’s about the same weight as my friends massive OLED TV. Of course, OLED is particularly light, but still. It’s insane!
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And it’s a vacuum tube. How does nothing weigh this much?!
Plasma screens weren’t much better, at first. I had a 30" one circa 2006, maybe three inches thick, and it you’d swear it was solid metal. A decade later we bought a couple 32" LCD TVs, then a few more because they were so cheap, and the later ones weighed next to nothing. Nowadays - well, I walked this 55" up and down a flight of stairs by myself, and the only hard parts were finding somewhere to grab and not bonking any walls.
don@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
The vacuum itself might not weigh anything, but the glass strong enough to resist the implosion the vacuum would cause has to be pretty thick, which is where the weight is
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And that scales nonlinearly with volume, so smaller monitors are even denser than big monitors.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
it’s all the magnetons
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
🤣 that’s so true, how much can a damn vacuum weigh?