All of those screens have a CCFL, it’s basically a miniature version of of those old tube lights. If that one reaches its end of life it gets dim and yellow and needs to be replaced.
The A22p also accepts the IPS displays from an A31p. I modded mine with one of those, so now I have a Windows 98 notebook with an especially beautiful display. 🥰
I’m still rocking an A22p! It was my first notebook in 2003. People went mad when I brought it to school because of the 1600x1200 screen. I used its S-Video output so the whole class was able to watch movies on an external CRT TV. :D
There’s even a docking station with eGPU support - before it was cool!
I don’t have it anymore (sadly), but for a while I owned a Hitachi TX200 projector.
All of the fans were standard PC fans and easily replaceable. The polarization filters came on little extra modules, you could take them out, replace them and realign them easily. The service menu had an option to shift the pixels for each individual LCD to counteract for pixel-drift and you were also able to calibrate the colors for multiple zones. It’s a great projector and can run for many years with a few replacement parts.
Sadly, it was only 720p and Hitachi never made a higher-resolution model. :(
That work environment sounds like hell. Literally. If I woke up one day and had to work like this, I would think I never woke up at all and Lucifer finally started torturing me.
AI is ruining my ability to think and sucks the fun out of writing code. I am so happy our boss doesn’t force us to use it.
I work for a small advertising agency as a web developer. I’d say is mixed. The writing team is pissed about AI, because of the SEO-optimized slop garbage that is ruining enjoyable articles on the internet. The video team enjoys it, because it’s really easy to generate good (enough) looking VFX with it. I use it rarely. Mostly for mundane tasks and boilerplate code. I enjoy using my actual brain to solve coding problems.
Customers don’t have a fucking clue, of course. If we told them that they need AI for some stupid reason, they would probably believe us.
The boss is letting us decide and not forcing anything upon us. If we believe our work is done better with it, we can go for it, but we don’t have to. Good boss.
A lot of manufacturers just didn’t give a rat’s ass about 64bit drivers. Those devices are the ones that are usually stuck on Windows XP. That happened well into the Vista era (which already came with a 64bit edition*), it’s infuriating.
*XP also had a 64bit release, but it wasn’t widely adopted.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Pro. It’s one of these curved phones with glass on the back.
The front glass is hardened Gorilla Glass. The back glass breaks when you’re looking at it wrong. Because of the curved soapbar style, the phone easily slips out of your hand, shattering the back glass.
I am very delicate with my phones and never broke one in all of my life. The S8 was the final boss for me, though. I had to have the back glass repaired two times, one time it just fell off of my bed which is only 15cm above the floor. Fuck you, Samsung.
AI startups need more power
The only point I disagree with. Apart from a few special usecases, the AI BS can go to hell.
Steck die scheiß Waffe weg!
ShadowMan from 1999. That’s one of the (if not the) first narrative action adventure games I ever played and a big part of my childhood. The mixture of blood, gore, creepy music and enemies and great setpieces (you play as the walker between the worlds of the dead and the living and can switch between them) fascinates me to this day. When I was a child, it gave me quite a few nightmares, but I still finished it. It’s an absolute masterpiece.
NightDive recently remastered it and it’s even better now.
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul
And Pluribus now!
VFX, not SFX. In our company, the team shoots real-life videos and then puts effects on top. The most recent project I saw was a movie for a manufacturer of paper colors. The artists made a big tower in one of their factories explode into a wave of paint, it looked pretty (but it was only a few seconds long).