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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • That is a good question, but I suspect if you tried this in real life it would still show static.

    • The waves are amplified with a circuit that attempts to find a signal even if it’s very weak (so you can get a picture even if you’re close or very far from the tv station)
    • At a certain point, the electromagnetic field from the running TV itself would start to get picked up

    I suspect a better thought experiment would be if you just disconnected the input and amplification circuit entirely from the CRT tube, in which case you would probably just get white as the electron beam scans back and forth without any modulation.







  • One thing that worked for me in a similar situation was to enforce an “owner” tag or some kind of registry on everything.

    Basically, if you set something up, change some configuration, whatever - put your email address on it.

    Write a readme.md or wiki or guide too, but at the very minimum put your name down as the owner so that when someone comes along and wants to know if it’s safe to change/upgrade/delete, they can find you and ask. If someone leaves, you can do a quick search and get them to handover/write up anything they were responsible for.