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[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i have an old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.

i grew up on old floor wooden console tv's and had one up until 2014 when it died and discovered that neither replacement parts nor repairmen existed anymore despite the tv being manufactured not very long ago in 1992.

i haven't bought a tv ever since then and my plasma died after only 8 years, so i don't have a tv anymore; but would instantly buy one they made another console tv.

[โ€“] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i keep wanting to rip the guts out and install a 40 inch tv with some self hosted stuff in the cabinet, amplifier etc.

it would be cool! but also that thing is cool as it is

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

i thought about doing this multiple times, but each time i remember that i'm considerably less handy than i like to think i am and that my hubris lead me to almost killing myself when i changed the breaks on my car myself. lol