6 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

People in my area keep getting rid of some amazing kit. Last week I was walking back from our local coffee roaster—like a gentleman—when I chanced upon these two panels covered with autumn leaves by side of the road. Clara said words to the effect of “uh oh, more stuff we have to take back?” Yes, yes indeed. I’m sorry. The widescreen is a Dell something something. I don’t know what the model is, and I don’t care much to look it up. I hate 1080p for robbing us of the vastly superior WUXGA and its glorious 1920 × 1200 resolution we briefly had in the 2000s. And besides, it only ran for a few minutes before it made like a Matrox VGA card playing Commander Keen and started glitching. I fear that reference may be a bit too niche. The NEC though, well that was another story. First, it weighed an absolute metric tonne. I can only assume, like Hi-Fi gear, that weight is correlated with quality. Maybe the liquid in the crystals is denser, or something. I only narrowly missed dropping it once,…

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