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clock@f.cz

Karel 'Clock' K.

Edited 5 days ago

You know what's the difference between a vacuum tube TV and a modern flat panel TV?

A vacuum tube TV heats up faster than a modern flat panel TV boots up.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@clock Well, "smart" TVs may be slow and probably spy on you and send unwanted radiation ("advertising"), but at least they limit unwanted radiation to visible and audible bands :-).
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ozzelot@mstdn.social

Ozzelot runbsd

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@pavel
I'd rather get testicular cancer than a TV with builtin spyware marketed as features.
(I currently have neither.)
@clock

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clock@f.cz

Karel 'Clock' K.

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@pavel I was at Karlov Physical laboratories of the Faculty of Math and Physics on a day of open doors and they had an X-ray detector and I asked them to measure the X-rays from ther CRT monitor and they said it's pointless because the lead glass absorbs most and the rests is absorbed in the air between the CRT and the user so there would be nothing left anyway.

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clock@f.cz

Karel 'Clock' K.

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@pavel The unmeasurability of X-rays from a CRT is further confirmed by Food and Drug Administration (FDA): "most TV sets have not been found to give off any measurable level of radiation" https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/television-radiation#2

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clock@f.cz

Karel 'Clock' K.

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@ozzelot @pavel I quickly googled and it seems that the legal limit for CRT TV's under adverse conditions is like 10% of the natural background radiation. I don't think you get testicular cancer from that.

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ozzelot@mstdn.social

Ozzelot runbsd

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@clock @pavel There are legal limits, there are built-in failsafes, and there are extremely unlikely failures of those failsafes.

Just saying, if I had those two options and only those two options...

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @clock@f.cz
@clock @ozzelot Well, that only means that chance of getting cancer from that is no more than 10% :-).

Anyway, my original post was a joke. It was even marked as such with ":-)" :-).
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