He's passionate and found his "calling", so yeah, zealots can be tiring. He also happens to be right, and I appreciate that he's sticking his neck out for that conviction. If he ran for national office, I'd vote for him. He's exactly the sort of bulldog we need to stir up Congress. However, unless he learned to catch flies with sugar, I don't think he'd be very effective-but, maybe he could do that.
We went from the twin lead coming from the antenna on the roof, to the coaxial stapled along the outside wall, coming in through a hole in the wall near the TV and connecting to a box, which connected to the antenna in. Then the VCR comes in and the TV got a coaxial in. Then we had the RCA component in on the TV, along with RGB. That's where CRT input ends.
There's the TOSLINK, but I think that was only for audio hardware.
Then HDMI, and probably other ones I'm forgetting.
I was there for all of it. Including the rabbit ears antenna on "portable" CRT TVs. And, the Sony Watchman.
Do I remember? I'm fucking 60, I remember everything y'all ask about and much more. I remember when my 16" 1024 X 768 monitor died and I rushed to Staples before they closed to pay $400 for a 14" monitor, which was as much as I could afford at that moment. But, how far back do you want to go? MS-DOS 2.0 on a 12" amber monitor (I didn't like green)? I was there.
My current "big" TV is a 1920 X 1080 14-year-old 55" Toshiba dumb TV.
I got a 27" 4K monitor a few months ago, when my old monitor died. I have my second, old 1920 x 1080 monitor next to it. Yes, I can tell the difference, but only in text, not in video.
I wouldn't mind having a 100" OLED 4K TV, but for two things. I don't want to pay for it, but I would pay for it, except I'm afraid it would die in a couple of years, because my experience has been that new appliances are crap. So, I'll just stick with my old TV, and be happy that it's much better than my 27" Sharp CRT it replaced.
Vacuum up the internet, provide generative "AI" for people to spew tons of garbage on to the internet. Everyone hates AI, and advertisers don't want ads showing against AI slop. AI can't accurately detect AI and kills real content providers that advertisers want to show ads for.
I don't know why I'd buy another appliance specifically to heat water, when I have a general purpose microwave that can do it just as well.
Here are the three things I use my microwave for in order of amount of use:
Heating water for coffeeCooking vegetablesThawing meat
I run my microwave about 17 minutes per day total for those three tasks.