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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by fl4regun on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:50PM (#49246308)
TV's for one, have become insanely cheap. You can get 4k TVs for like, nothing, especially after inflation adjustments from the 2010s. Bigger panels, brighter screens, too bad we started shoving stupid and annoying OSes and Ads in them.
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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by bluescrn on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:22PM (#49248429)
TV quality isn't what it used to be, though.

Got a fairly expensive LG OLED and after 5 years it's developing clusters of dead pixels down one edge. And even if the hardware doesn't fail/degrade, the software is often enshittified (ads pushed to smart TVs)

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by servo_sausage on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:35AM (#49255005)
OLEDs are an odd example... Their warranties are generally just as good, and the lifespan due to burn in is still improving.
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