Perfection is the enemy of good
Perfection is the enemy of good
Posted Oct 15, 2025 17:59 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)In reply to: Perfection is the enemy of good by pizza
Parent article: The FSF's Librephone project
Most analog CRTs I've used (both computer monitors and TVs) had on-screen menus. I'd have to go back to my very first computer monitor and my very first TV (that TV had fully mechanical controls, including a nice rotating knob to choose the channel with a fine-tune collar around it) to find an analog CRT without some form of built-in software.
Posted Oct 15, 2025 18:09 UTC (Wed)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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I had a CRT TV towards the end of the CRT era that had literally one chip in it, and might well have had software in mask ROM not internal flash. That would count, to me, as genuinely hard-coded software per RYF terminology, since an embedded mask ROM (unlike embedded flash) needs you to replace the entire chip to rewrite it.
Perfection is the enemy of good