the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

final fantasy 7 was already about as subtle as a brick to the face, but it seems like in final fantasy 7 remake they've painted the word "ENVIRONMENTALISM" on the brick, and then thrown in a second brick that says "DIRECT ACTION" on one side and "CORPORATE PROPAGANDA" on the other as a bonus
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three people have picked 25 feet and what

who are you people and how are you so powerful
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@rey cheese pull: desirable on pizza, not so much on tortellini
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USB cable length

@relee @Austin_Dern it seems obvious to us, but maybe that's just because we haven't used any other social media thing to get habits from
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@sharkNserg blend the connie
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@relee If you unboost it and boost it again, that works just fine
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@relee You can just boost it, though?
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everyone seems really excited about the new klonoa game, maybe we should give that series a try sometime. we had never even heard of it as a kid
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@ziphi Other consumer devices that use microwaves for communication, like bluetooth and wifi, produce their microwaves through other, cheaper, smaller means that work just fine at the tiny power levels those use, but don't scale up to 1000 watts very well
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@ziphi The actual microwaves used for heating stuff in a microwave oven are produced by a type of vacuum tube called a cavity magnetron. It's by far the cheapest and easiest way to output that much RF power.
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@ziphi pretty sure most of the vacuum tubes used in those are new old stock; there are a couple startups that make new vacuum tubes but they're very expensive
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@ziphi Yeah, but that's not really a mass market consumer thing, that's audiophile and "i just think they're cool" retro-enthusiast stuff
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@ziphi They're pretty neat! one of the last holdouts of vacuum tubes in consumer electronics; now all that's left are microwaves.
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@BatElite yeah but i wouldn't be too concerned about energy efficiency in medical devices especially, i'd be more concerned about safety and reliability

efficiency is also a consideration but not the first one
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@Austin_Dern the thomas electronics one that is

it reads more like they're saying "we still have all the stuff you would need to make CRTs because it's still used for other things" while specifically avoiding saying "we make CRTs"
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@Austin_Dern i'm not so sure about that page because the first thing they say lists off a bunch of things *similar* to CRTs in that they are also either vacuum tubes or related technologies but the only thing there that is actually a CRT is the x-ray tube
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@Austin_Dern that more emissive coating *could* be something toxic (i think thorium was common at one point for certain gas-filled tubes) but there are nontoxic things that work too
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@Austin_Dern they do use a lot of lead in the glass and a lot of other toxic things in the phosphors though, hence why i thought it might be one of those

everything else i'm pretty sure is no problem, the dag ground is just graphite, the electrodes are just some appropriate metal (not sure which, but it's not anything exotic or toxic i don't think), and the filament is just tungsten possibly with a more emissive coating
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@Austin_Dern i'm pretty sure there are regulatory restrictions stopping them from being made? on top of the obvious lack of a big enough market. i'm not sure where we learned that though
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