It would not surprise me, but I did hear that Francis appointed something like 80% of the Cardinals who will vote to replace him soooo… 🤷‍♂️

The origjnal is a Philco Predicta from around 1958 or so. The Philco brand existed for years and years, first as a maker of radios, then as a maker of televisions.

The retro-futurist Predicta line ran for just 2 years, 1958 to 1960.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta

It definitely gained a hold though and has been featured in both the Sims and Fallout games:

In the 90’s, the brand was acquires by a tiny company called Telstar who hand-made reproductions using Phillips parts, that’s who made mine in 2001.

25", full color, with composite, component and S-Video inputs. It even supports 480p video!

Contrary to popular opinion, mods don’t scrape all the threads looking for removable content.

We remove it when we see it, and sometimes it takes a report to make that happen.

Wasn’t there also a problem with the music rights?

I was looking for an original to restore but there are problems doing that:

1. They are FULL of paper capacitors. All of which have to be replaced.

2. Once you do that, the set is still black and white and has no modern inputs, coaxial and dipole only.

So in my research, I found a tiny company in Dousman, WI who bought the Philco Predicta license. Not sure if they are still making them, keep in mind this was all 25 years ago. Was $2,500 + freight shipping.

http://predictatv.com/

I think she started with Y-Y-Z. :) Sorry, Rush joke…

https://youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc

Yeah, bought them as speaker stands.

My (now) wife freaked out coming to my apartment the first time. Turns out, she’s a huge Rush fan:

In my living room at the time:

All I hear is “Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

70% sure she just married me for the TV.

Problem is it can’t sort by number of there are text values in file name. “11” is a number. “11.” is not. :) Fun with computers!

It’s also why stuff like this exists:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

Substack blogs are not allowed.

Filenames are text, not numbers, so 11 comes before 2. So does 111, 101, etc. Anything starting with 1 is before 2.

In order to sort “properly”, you have to name your files properly.

00
01
02
up to…
99

If you have more than 100 files in the same folder, the you have to go back through and re-name them:

000
001
002
… 099
100

It’s sorting correctly.

11 comes after 1.

The problem is the data needs to be fixed. 01, 02, 03…

If Modi suddenly died, you bet it would be pinned. Same in Politics if Trump died.

I’d add a variant on this:

Games where you spend hours unlocking death traps in tombs that haven’t been opened in 500 to 1,000 years only to find the mercenary opposition has already beaten you inside.

Looking at you Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, etc.

My launch deck still runs fine, what did you do to it?

Your comment was removed for endorsing transphobia, now you’re temp banned for repeating it.

So… we’re never getting Hi Fi Rush, are we?