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9 August 2024
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I feel like I'm a million years old for getting this reference.
It’s amazing that we don’t have to deal with this anymore for a lot of consumer electronics. Or someone running the microwave, disrupting an antenna signal.
Microwaves will still cause problems with Wifi signals, though it's becoming rarer with the advent of 5 and 6 Ghz protocols.
More “recently”: GET OFF THE PHONE, I’M IN A CHATROOM!
Middle of a game of StarCraft and gone 😭
NOOOOOOO I WAS ZERG RUSHING
that’s why i made the call
Explain for a youngin?
Analog TV were a lot more susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and would go all fuzzy.
Old vacuum cleaners had motors that put out a lot of EMI, so every time someone in the house would run the vacuum the TV would start acting up. (Wasn't just vacuum cleaners: any appliance with a big motor could, but they were usually far enough away from the TV to not be an issue)
Better shielding on appliances and the switch to digital/LCD TVs that weren't susceptible to that form of interference all but made that problem disappear.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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