We do not seem to have any evolved reaction to this discrepancy, as there are no scenarios in our normal environment with this kind of flicker where it's a sign of danger.

Hence it seems to only result in a headache at worst, and sensitivity varies.

I should elaborate. Simulation sickness is caused by discrepancy between observations of eyes vs inner ear.

When encountering those, our evolved biological systems conclude we have likely ingested something psychoactive, and evacuate contents of the stomach to prevent further poisoning.

CRT problems are caused by discrepancy between what cones and rods sense. Cones mainly populate focus vision, have significantly lower light sensitivity (are not meaningfully affected by CRT flicker). Rods are far more prevalent in peripheral vision than in focus, and are far more sensitive to even minor changes in lighting. They are what sees the flicker.

>How on *earth* do you survive going to the cinema?

Went once. Never afterwards. Felt weird. Never actually connected the dots until you pointed this out due to insufficient personal experience.

Parents never went either to my knowledge. I should probably ask them if they have the same experience I did.

Finally, it's pretty easy to figure out how it works. You look at the CRT screen displaying a white image. Then you turn your head away so you see it in peripheral vision only.

You will see flicker up to some refresh rate that is unique to you. For me, I can tell the difference up to about 82Hz with focus vision only, and I only stop seeing flicker in periphery at 120Hz. This is why I overclocked my last CRT monitor to that.

VR headsets cause simulation sickness. Symptoms are different, as are causes.

If I am getting a device that is AI enabled, what do I get? Does it do more for me? Not right now as a far as I can tell. I don't have any apps that require AI running on my device. It's because with AI the industry is putting the cart before the horse. If you buy the next gen graphics card or double memory, you know what the result is going to be. What if your device comes with an NPU? What capability does that bring to the device for a consumer? I'm a techie and I know what a NPU does, but I have no reason to want one in my device other than to have one.

Now all that would change if I could add extra features and talk to my phone and have it run on the edge without having to be connected to a network. I would want an NPU if there was some cool application that required it. Right now I can't think of one.

I was thinking about changing my phone, the first thing I wanted to know how to avoid AI, how to disable AI, how to make sure there is no AI on my equipment. Thank you.

Toyota hybrids are basically everywhere now. In many places in the world, you can't even get a non-hybrid toyota any more.

Notably, they hold value better than any other hybrid or EV, and better than most ICE cars.

Mirai was never a mass market car. It was a test bench that barely sold any cars. The fact that you have to scrape barrel this hard to find a toyota with poor resale value matches the "nazi musk" shit. Your boy NYC mayor just did the same gesture, and your silence on him being a nazi is deafening.

Courts already have this authority with discovery process.

Because we can only hope the actual target of this proposed legislation is the Congressional lawmakers who are currently allowed to engage in Insider Trading.

Nancy Pelosi should have been bitch slapped into next century for not only dismissing the obvious concerns, but for being the spokeswoman to justifying Insider Trading as some kind of fucking Congressional job perk.

No. I don't give a shit who's more guilty of this today. Or what color their political pom poms are. Much like fraud, there is little to debate here.

Convergence artifacts at the edges and generally imperfect geometry due to beam geometry vs screen shape are generally the main issues with CRT used in modern computers.

It's worth noting that games like SM2 were specifically built with CRT feature set in mind.

I.e. natural smoothing due to poor geometry handling, near instant display at specific low refresh rates, etc.

Modern games typically offer much higher refresh rates, and expect pixel perfect geometry.

The actual problem with CRT flicker is twofold:

1. How much of your peripheral vision is seeing the screen (affected by screen size and distance from screen).
2. Your specific susceptibility to CRT flicker.

For example for me, 85Hz was the lowest I could have without headache for even a small PC monitor. 75Hz and I'd get a headache within 30 minutes. 60Hz was borderline unusable, headache in minutes. My last monitor was a 100Hz unit, and I overclocked it to 120Hz as soon as I got it. First monitor where I needed zero breaks for flicker headache no matter how long I had to use it.

My parents had to upgrade to early 100Hz TVs for the same reason back in the day, so it's probably a genetically determined feature.

At the same time I knew people who could use large 50Hz TVs as a monitor screen just fine for hours from close distance. It's very much an individual susceptibility.

Notably 60Hz CRTs are horrible for gaming. Headaches from flicker are a norm and you only get 60 images a second even with nanosecond-grade display speed.

If you insist on having a CRT for gaming, consider getting 100-120Hz refresh rate ones that came at the very tail end of CRT manufacturing cycle. Granted you'll have to lower resolution further to get to those refresh rates on most such monitors, or overclock the monitor leading to even lower MBTF and noise issues.

Sure, but the problem people have with these is generally cost. OLED is the expensive high end, and it's primary downside nowadays is durability. It's a monitor for a two-three year period, and then you have to switch as UI burn in starts to set in even with regeneration.

These strobing monitors are typically in the OLED price range, and when they just come out, they tend to be well into OLED price range.

That means there's no sense to buy one. Just buy an OLED if you have that much of a budget for a monitor.

CRTs are irrelevant for this discussion because they're not made for this purpose (and were basically never made in those resolutions). They're also smoothed out due to geometry issues, making them significantly less viable for the primary buyer group of very high refresh screens - competitive CS players.

You're arguing against something that has already been done successfully for years in things like narrative driven games that tend to have far more text than smut novels.