EmX_3000

Old but low-hours plasma TV. They also have the most incredible contrast ratios, a million to one. They also typically have "all the inputs" so you can plug nearly anything into them. RF, S-Video, composite, component, VGA, HDMI. No fussy scalers or anything else needed.

What a brilliant machine, it easily has the most active scene of any retro computer going at this point. It's a bit of a shame about the BASIC not taking better advantage of the hardware though. OTOH a lot of the brilliant programmers of today's era cut their teeth on the C64 (and Apple IIs) and probably had to resort to assembly code at times thus honing their skills. I had an Apple IIgs and it lacked an advanced BASIC to take full advantage of the video and sound capabilities. In fact home computers with a really good BASIC tuned to the computer's hardware capabilties were very rare.

I always thought you should encrypt any really sensitive personal information any way you can, then if you store or send it later hopefully it's not compromised. Even when your storage media is supposedly secure. What's the harm in that, there are easy to use tools to help you along. Some professions, like with lawyers and accountants, you'd think they'd all do this as a matter of course but they don't. Big and small tech too. So why not encrypt all your personal data at the source, the home computer / personal compuer and just call it a day? Can you do that on your platform / tech stack?

It's not vapid. Half this web site at this poing is people saying "I-i made this" when AI made it for them. HALF. Nobody cares, it's old news. These stories are not relevant to tech, they're not thought-provoking nor is there anything to learn from them. It's about as cool as reading about some MIS directing a code sweatshop to make his or her latest web site.

I've been dabbling in 6502 assembly since the 1980s. Sometimes your BASIC code just isn't fast enough you know.

It's not really that cool to get a bot to do this work for you, anybody can ask for that assuming they have the tokens to burn.