• Wahots@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    Perhaps the smell of ozone? CRTs also produced a tremendous amount of static too. I remember playing with the static on my monitor when I was younger. CRTs were pretty cool. Very weird, too.

    • Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      If you thought the static on the OUTSIDE was fun… Never disconnect a cathode tube assembly from the power board without discharging EVERYTHING first. It’s lethal. https://youtu.be/a6FMpvs71pc

      (Apologies. Idk how to do piped links)

      (Edit: tracker removed. Thank you!)

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          9 months ago

          There’s extensions to automatically redirect. Just post the youtube link, piped users can figure out how to get it to pipe.

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          9 months ago

          I don’t know if it’s the same with piped but in libretube app settings you can set it to open YouTube links by default

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        9 months ago

        Oh yeah, I’ve long heard of their terrifying capacitors and other stuff. I’d never service one x3