• @Soggytoast@lemm.ee
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      1116 days ago

      They’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough

    • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      215 days ago

      yeah my parents had a trinitron, that thing weighed a whole cattle herd. The magnetic field started failing in the later years so one corner was forever distorted. It was an issue playing Halo because I couldn’t read the motion tracker (lower left)