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Alexstarfire, in Health "care"

Need a money back guarantee.

hydrospanner,

Right?

You didn’t resolve the issues or mitigate their effect?

Sounds like you didn’t deliver, therefore no pay.

SecretSauces, in I always expect the story to be resolved for some reason
@SecretSauces@lemmy.world avatar

Million dollar spin-off idea. Solved Mysteries

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I would watch this.

Furbag, in Spare a dollar?

For those of you confused as to why being $1 short of the price would translate to $377/mo… This particular calculator factors in things like property taxes, homeowners insurance, HOA fees, and other recurring expenses that are paid for annually, but are typically deducted into an escrow account each month along with your mortgage payment so that you aren’t hit with a surprise bill for thousands of dollars at the end of the year.

Ghyste, in Spare a dollar?

Not a meme ffs

sebinspace,

Oh, the content Nazis finally migrated from Reddit

Ghyste,

Hurr durr people care about a community not becoming a dumping ground… Don’t waste my time.

neidu2, (edited ) in Duh !

I’ve scrolled past this meme countless times, but somehow I didn’t think of this before now: What does an composite video signal sound like?Anyone have the hardware to test it out and record the sound for me?

I’ve opened serial terminals to serial mice, and I’ve abused /dev/dsp with random binaries I’ve fancied at the moment, but it never dawned on me to plug the red or white RCA jack into the yellow port in the mame of science, and now I only have audio RCA…

EDIT: Composite video, not s-video

dustyData,

In the worse quality TV, putting the composite video into an audio line would make the speakers do a short distorted buzz, then cutoff. The higher quality TVs won’t even flinch. Their internal processing was fast enough to detect the wrong thing was connected, that the signal modulation never even made it to the amplifier. But to our ears it was probably just a bunch of electronic farts.

LazaroFilm,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

I do t m ow what it sounds da like but i know what it looks like. It’s basically modulating for every line of your TV high is bright and low is black with a marker for each line.

wolfshadowheart,

I can’t comment on how it sounds but I can recommend video feedback synthesis!

possiblylinux127,

If I remember correctly it does not make ant sound. Another commenter says its due to advanced audio processing.

9point6,

S-video was a mini DIN connector which wouldn’t have fit into one of these RCA jacks.

If you’d put composite video (the yellow RCA cable in this setup) into one of the audio jacks, pretty much all TVs would not do anything with it as an incompatible signal. If they actually tried to turn it into something, it wouldn’t be audible. Composite video generates a signal at something like 5-10Mhz, human hearing tops out around 20Khz (250-500x lower)

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Just need to overclock the human auditory senses, duh

possiblylinux127,

You clearly haven’t seen my on Caffeine

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

Oh God, why did you capitalize that? Why is it capitalized???

I’m afraid

Natanael, (edited )

You can always drag out the signal to frequency shift it or something similar. It’s done all the time in astronomy as an example to create visualizations.

Waveform example here;

ques10.com/…/sketch-composite-video-signal-wavefo…

wla.berkeley.edu/~cs150/sp99/…/compvideo.htm

Chobbes,

I guess it depends how much of a frequency shift you do, but I imagine with the blanking intervals it will mostly just sound like a nasty sawtooth wave?

9point6, in Duh !

Europeans: is this something I’m too SCART to understand?

Diprount_Tomato,
@Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world avatar

What? We have these in the European countries (Not “Europe”)

9point6, (edited )

Anything during the 90s to early 00s sold in Europe came with a SCART connector as the main AV connector. If it wasn’t a direct-from-the-unit SCART cable, there would have been an adapter block to turn the RCA into SCART.

It wasn’t uncommon for cheap TVs to only have RF and SCART.

Also “is this something I’m too X to understand” is a meme format, I’m aware of other connectors.

4am,

If I may interject here, but in actuality the system users are using is not, in fact, “Linux” but is actually GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux

Blackmist,

Component, composite, s-video and stereo sound in one cable. Although it did mean that you’d have to be careful because a cable to something like a PS2 might only implement the lowest quality of them.

Kusimulkku,

We had this too though. SCART just was more common.

Chev, in Health "care"

Usually nobody talks how much it costs when it’s free.

SomethingBurger,

I went to the hospital once and had to pay for parking! I will never financially recover from this.

EdgeRunner, (edited ) in Duh !

The struggle was to get the wires and to plug different devices, with differents standards, between them.

Today just go amazon, eBay, I don’t know what else, and you get directly the good line, with the good input/output.

Today the standardization is also well done.
Its just plug n play literraly.

comrade19,

I came into things right when they were well established. Composite and component were so reliable right before HDMI replaced it

Pr0v3n, in Duh !

I mean to be fair, usually these were tucked away in the back of a heavy, wooden TV cabinet where it was dark and difficult to reach into to match the colours, even with a torch; and you couldn’t just feel your way around the back to plugging them in because they all felt the same.

blanketswithsmallpox,

Kids be like wtf you didn’t have flashlights yet?

Peter1986C,
@Peter1986C@lemmings.world avatar

Torches in this context are flashlights.

blanketswithsmallpox,

… Yes… That’s the joke.

get_off_the_phone,

You gotta remember that in the Old World, 100 years is not a long time. It’s only like 30 years. So in the 90s, they were 100 years ago and hadn’t invented flashlights yet so they used torches instead.

dukatos,

No mirrors back then, too /s

Asswaterpirate, in Duh !

Just do it in alphabetical order. ®ed, (W)hite, (Y)ellow. If it doesn’t work, do it reverse because it’s upside down. Two tries max.

ouRKaoS,

Oh, there’s the problem… this TV has 3 inputs aligned vertically so I’ve plugged each cable into the video spot of 3 different inputs…

Time to power clean 100lbs of CRT back into a dedicated piece of furniture!

painfulasterisk, (edited )

Exactly, is similar to plug in an USB-A, two tries max.

I thought this was implied and there was no need to add “/s” since we all struggle with this type of USB configuration.

Spider2013,
TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

The most relatable modern human experience

bitwaba,
jose1324,

Damn that’s smart

wazzupdog,

That would be great it that was standard, too many times i came across a tv that had the audio channels reversed.

dylanTheDeveloper, (edited ) in Duh !
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Nah uh parrallel and serial ports were worse because you have to screw the little feet in

hemko,

And some asshole tightened those with screwdriver and you’d kill your fingers trying to open it

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

I remember trying to plug them in and feeling like I’m screwing it in, and letting pressure off and it just flops out. Break time.

possiblylinux127,

And then you get the people who rip the connector out because they don’t understand screws

captainlezbian, in Duh !

The problem with RCA cables wasn’t the colors, it was the fact that the back of the tv was huge and you really wanted to not have to get back there. HDMI you can install by feel

Itsamelemmy,
Spider2013,

Wtf?

tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ouch

Antitrust7668,

How does that even happen? 😆 These people destroying their things willy nilly

colforge,

These were clearly all done by either children or by adults who never learned to moderate their use of force. All gas no brakes. Zero sense of finesse.

Sanyanov,

I’ve read the last sentence with the air of connoisseur

Buddahriffic,

Or have 0 patience and gets frustrated easily and gives in to the monkey brain solution then eventually calms down and swallows their pride and brings it in to get fixed.

frezik,

Want to know something even better? PS5s showed up on eBay like this within a month of release. Good money to be made if you were handy with a soldering iron.

tdawg,

Is your cable not fitting? Try applying unreasonable amounts of force today!

hroderic,

Also some devices would have like 5 sets of these connectors. You’d be playing around with the remote and plugging and unplugging stuff until you found the right one.

LinkOpensChest_wav,

You can? I can’t. They have to be perfectly aligned, and I can’t get HDMI or DP cables to connect without visually seeing the outlet and plug.

JackbyDev,

You have a chance to install by feel though. RCA you have to see the colors.

LinkOpensChest_wav,

Ok this is true, although if I had to reconnect a device pretty often, I’d be able to feel out the location of the plugs. But otherwise, yes.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

I can’t even feel out the location of my wife’s vagina and I’ve been reconnecting to that for years.

Props.

LinkOpensChest_wav,

We people with bad vision find a way lol

Earthwormjim91,

The first time….

After that you know which order they are in on your tv and you can just reach your hand back there. Once you have the first one in it’s easy.

JackbyDev,

I’m not really plugging and unplugging things often enough to memorize it.

captainlezbian,

It’s a pain in the ass and I usually fail, but sometimes it works. Though far more importantly, it’s easier to get behind a flat screen with a swivel base than a big crt. RCA cables were on their way out when bigger tvs stopped weighing so damn much and taking up so much depth

Perfide,

It’s tricky but it is doable, unlike with RCA where you have to plug in 3 identical connectors with the only identifier being the color.

zyratoxx, (edited ) in Duh !
@zyratoxx@lemm.ee avatar

The real struggle (for me) was mixing up VGA and Serial

TheBlackLounge, in Duh !

They’re often too tight or too loose, and you have to reach behind closets so you can’t see the color to match, and you have to put them in at weird angles.

simple,
@simple@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t used a single TV/receiver back in the day that worked first try. You’d have to twist that one port, pull the other one out slightly, or constantly try to push it upwards to get a good signal. Kids really don’t know how good they have it with HDMI.

DagonPie,
@DagonPie@lemmy.world avatar

I completely forgot about that but youre right. I remember plugging these cables in at my aunts house and needing to balance a vhs tape on them to apply down pressure so the signal on the tv wasnt black and white.

lugal, in Oh, you guys want my opinion? Well...

There is a picture where a boy sits next to a commercial with talking people and first you think he is part of the group but then you realize he’s sitting next to the tv

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