Joseph D. Long
SwiftOnSecurityI'm a millennial in their 30's which means I'm thinking of buying a big old computer CRT monitor and then psychologically conditioning my stress to dissolve when I hit the degauss button.
They took everything from us
JonnySchnittger 
@SwiftOnSecurity they did, and we didn't even notice until it was too late
Freakinbox@JonnySchnittger @SwiftOnSecurity We didn't even have a chance to stop them.. Always slighty too young to be listened to.
Now they are like "Here's the pile of shit... good luck!" lol
Simonoid@SwiftOnSecurity I had an office that had dozens of 21" CRTs. Poor bastards were put next to unshielded desk fans. They faught valiantly 🪦
Dr. Curiosity 💻🔬@simonoid @SwiftOnSecurity
I lost my 21" CRT in an earthquake. I miss it.
I once managed to mildly electrocute myself by sending a text message with an Alcatel phone, pointing its aerial directly into the middle of the screen so I could see the RF distortion. My shoulder went numb. It was stupid and glorious.
leah & tigers & bears, oh my!@simonoid @SwiftOnSecurity ooh, i used to have one of those! it was *massive* - and after a couple of years of my eldest boycat sitting on top of it and batting lazily at passing pointers, the top few lines developed a flicker.
there's no power on earth would make me go back to the CRT era! the *only* saving grace of CRTs was that, being all analogue, you could feed them funny bit clocks and they wouldn't alias them to shreds, which is handy when you're trying to hack a $3 microcontroller to make a screen display at the edge of its output specification - and even then, that's more than made down for with the aperture grille in colour CRTs
Cali 🐘@SwiftOnSecurity *ba-woyoyoy-oing*
rshade@SwiftOnSecurity everything changed when the LCD nation attacked
jwgronk@SwiftOnSecurity light guns. They took light guns, and I didn’t even notice until it was too late.
Ryplinn@SwiftOnSecurity They took my headaches from me. The future is bright and steady.
bskm@SwiftOnSecurity Can recommend
@SwiftOnSecurity I heard that when I read it.
Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮
George PandzikAs a "geriatric millennial," I remember my dad teaching me how to manually degauss the color TV that I magnetized while playing with one of Dad's magnet to see the neat lights. The trick is to run the magnet around the outside of the screen, then carefully back the magnet away from the screen to a distance of about 10 feet while making decreasing spirals in the air over a period of about two to three minutes.
The things you remember from childhood later in life...
Rice@gepandz @SwiftOnSecurity ooo the magnet trick. I went one further, grabbed an electric drill and turned it on round the edges of the screen.
Same effect as your magnet, but with less effort from me 🤣
Dad taught me what his dad had taught him. That was the kids' job when my grandfather fixed the new-fangled color TVs at the time, so they probably hadn't figured out the electric drill trick, yet, or he didn't trust a pre-teen with a 1950s electric drill with a magnet taped to the bit. 😂
Gabriel Adrian Samfira@SwiftOnSecurity omg! The degauss button. I completely forgot about that one!
Lars Karlslund @SwiftOnSecurity but can you handle the disturbance in the force while degaussing?
Also you should start out with a blurry CGA monitor without fancy stuff for at least one full year first, to get an authentic experience/headache.
Dale Hagglund@SwiftOnSecurity I loved that sound.
Gauss ➡️ EF@SwiftOnSecurity Why would you degauss 
Laurent 📸
CRT Monitor Degauss Sound
Farbs
That Anonymous CowardI highly recommend a Sony Trinitron CRT... the degauss was intense.
mnemonicoverload@SwiftOnSecurity You youngin's with your fancy new-fangled degauss buttons.
device ⛧
The Cleric@SwiftOnSecurity ** furiously starts writing virtual degaussing app **
Neil Gall@SwiftOnSecurity It was never that satisfying.
Nick 'The Viking'Tay's onto something here, we're all stressed out because there's no more degaussing
Eli Levenson-Falk@SwiftOnSecurity waving a big magnet near the corners just to feel something
@SwiftOnSecurity I think I may try this
GreenDotGuy@SwiftOnSecurity I'm a millennial in my 40s, so I'd probably be more productive if I had an old 20MB 5.25" hard drive whirr-up to 3,600 RPM and do some head seeks while I worked. The modern silence of everything solid state is weird.
Kite (They/Them)@SwiftOnSecurity holy shit this just gave me shivers
EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him@SwiftOnSecurity I do not miss the days of having to put up with the high frequency hum from every monitor that was on at my workplace.
Christian Scholz 
@SwiftOnSecurity Millennial and “in my 30s” does not compute 😜
Erwin van Londen@SwiftOnSecurity I used the CRT screens to monitor for abnormalities in my environment. My scrips always penciled the same output values when things were OK. If at some stage differences were noted it would show up on the screen outside of the pixel boundaries which were already burned in so I new them something was off. The main issue with this approach was when we got new screens. It took a while for the values to burn in again. 😁
antipode77I must warn you.
These things can be up to 20 kg. (44 lb) heavy.
They are very good at collecting dust due to static electricity.
They require a lot of space on the desk.
They generate a lot of heat.
No thanks. Modern time has some disadvantages, but that's not one of them.
My career in IT started in 1974 on IBM Mainframe.