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over_clox

@ over_clox @lemmy.world

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I am not a robot. I promise.

  • How did you choose your username?

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  • I long ago lost that monitor and related hardware over the sands of time, moving one place to another multiple times.

    The benefit though was that I effectively quadrupled the number of pixels on screen from the common 1024x768 resolution of the time.

    1024x2=2048, 768x2=1536

    I was basically pioneering early extra high definition video output before it was even a thing.

    The images themselves wouldn't look any different, except smaller as each pixel was only 1/4 of original size, giving me a much larger visible pixel area for image editing.

    It wouldn't have helped gameplay much though, as I had to sacrifice framerate to accomplish that.

    Edit: You definitely can't do shit like that on modern LCDs, that category of overclocking is exclusive to old CRTs.

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  • TL;DR - Much higher pixel resolution, at the cost of framerate.

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  • Oh, I was listening to the answers alright, I just kept hitting brick walls on my search. So I'm gonna copy/paste a comment I left earlier to another commenter to explain my progress...

    "Oh, I've made some progress, I figured out the error it was having.

    Apparently, in this super high-tech year of 2026, websites don't recognize the word Road in an address, it absolutely has to be abbreviated to RD.

    How fucking stupid is that? AI datacenters eating up all the RAM and storage, yet they still gotta force trimming two letters off of a common word.. 🤦‍♂️"

    Road vs RD, like seriously what in the actual fuck? I shouldn't have to debug websites to figure out how to type a fucking address, it's 2026, they should fucking know by now that Road=RD

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  • Oh, I've made some progress, I figured out the error it was having.

    Apparently, in this super high-tech year of 2026, websites don't recognize the word Road in an address, it absolutely has to be abbreviated to RD.

    How fucking stupid is that? AI datacenters eating up all the RAM and storage, yet they still gotta force trimming two letters off of a common word.. 🤦‍♂️

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  • Oh, so Vote 411 was actually a link? Well you coulda saved me digging through AI slop and just posted the link https://www.vote411.org/

    Anyways, that site is useless for giving a list of the potential candidates or anything, it can't even name our Secretary of State. Matter of fact it doesn't give any names at all.

    I searched further and ran across this site. Seems perfectly legit and all, but the goddamn site says my literal registered home address cannot be found.

    https://myelectionday.sos.state.ms.us/VoterOutreach/Pages/VOSearch.aspx

    Isn't the internet/AI slop wonderful?

    I'm so glad that experienced voters are like just go google it, fucking useless.

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  • Name me one search engine that isn't tainted and slap full of AI slop for answers anymore. My goto is DuckDuckGo, and even they've done incorporated AI now. ☹️

    Is it that hard to understand, especially in these times, why I'd prefer to ask questions and hopefully get a few answers from actual humans, beyond 'jUsT goOgLE iT'...?

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  • It was officially rated for a max of 1280x1024, 50Hz progressive. The more common resolution of choice back then was 1024x768, 60Hz.

    Well I wanted a much higher resolution than that, so by absolutely maxing out the horizontal output transistor frequency to 64KHz and doing some quick number crunching, I was able to make a custom display mode of 2048x1536, 25Hz interlaced.

    Although the vertical refresh rate got both cut in half and also switched to interlaced, it still absolutely qualifies as overclocking, because the horizontal output transistor (HOT) is basically the most stressed out non high voltage component in any CRT monitor.

    Running the HOT at the bleeding edge of the manufacturer's frequency rating of 64KHz could and would indeed burn it out prematurely if run too long like that, especially without additional cooling, so I didn't run it too damn long like that, but I just wanted to see if it was even possible.

    The monitor itself was from 1994, so it was effectively all analog, no digital onscreen menus, no signal checking and no error message on the screen to say boohoo video mode not supported, the monitor just tuned itself to the signal and frequencies I calculated and arranged for it.

    It did however have quite a few analog image transform buttons on its front panel though, for things like trapezoid and shear distortion, raster rotation, corner bowing, etc, lots of things most monitors from 1994 didn't have, which meant the CRT yoke had probably twice as many deflection coils as a regular consumer CRT.

    Not bad for a monitor from 1994 that probably never saw anything over 1024x768 in practical use before I ever acquired it. I got literally 4 times the pixels of the typical desktop resolution of the time.

    Was it worth it? For daily use, no. For learning experience, absolutely!

  • TIL women experience pain longer than men.

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  • 8 months, no money, duh.

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  • Or not. Not Google anyways...

  • TIL women experience pain longer than men.

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  • I did it myself. I've been lighthearted about my comments, but if you really wanna know all the details, well it fucking hurt like hell!

    But it drained the abscess and gave me time to visit a dentist.

    Cost? ~$500, Bank? ~$0, Time, ~8months

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  • Thank you, seriously thank you 👍

    I still don't know how voting actually works, when it happens in my area, when it is, where it is, or how to even properly look all that up without AI slop answers now.

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  • Neither are metaphors for me, I've been abused more than I should say. Mostly punched, partly shot at with jammed guns..

    Don't ever doubt someone that sees their life flash before their eyes everytime they sleep and dream, I'm literally not supposed to be alive today.

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  • I'd rather be the nice stranger on the side of the road helping you change your flat tire than to be thrown into the mix of blind color voting.

    Even with that said, I'd still help you change your tire, whether you're red, blue, tan or brown.

    That's just the sort of person I am.

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  • Are you serious? That's not a metaphor, that's a confusing run-on paragraph word salad, possibly AI itself.

    I still choose peace over picking colored sides of a coin that both lead to war.

    I just want a nice peaceful job helping fix things for people or businesses that don't want to see the world burn down.

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  • Oh cool, that sounds fun. Ever been to South Mississippi?

    Guess not, as our library literally kicked like ~200 people out of the voting line for the 2016 elections..

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  • Aight, toss me a list of who is running for what office in Mississippi, cuz I'm subscribed to our congressman and still haven't gotten such a list.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Can you code with no digits?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    You ever been to Disney World?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I'm Single, I'm Pringle, and I'm Ready to Mingle...

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Hose Clamp Security Gate Chain...

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    South Mississippi here, does anyone have any advice on how to get Brownie registered as an emotional support animal?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Jerboa 0.0.84 seems to blindly try to force-open this webpage as a PDF document, when it needs to actually open it up as a webpage for the age verification HTML script.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    You can't legally drink and drive, but you have to present your driver's license to prove you're old enough to drink.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    I asked Google Docs AI to basically write a document about itself. Here's the results (4 pages)...

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    I had potato chips today

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How do people manage to play Rock, Paper, Scissors so quickly?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, thank you AI, I'm sure my mom loves driving on flat tires!

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Brownie chilling out..

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I finished a front end alignment on my roommate's vehicle today, shadetree style. 2005 Hyundai Tucson, 2.7L 6Cyl

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Cover Your Banana

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Cover Your Banana

  • I Made This @lemmy.zip
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    There's a bicycle behind this, I promise..