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ummm actually *tendrils come out of my mouth and suck away your will to live* *pushes my glasses up* 🤓

@scout @zens@merveilles.town umm i'm very aware of retr0brite (as it was originally spelled) it has not stopped retro nerds from admonishing me that my consoles yellowed "because i left them exposed to sun" (i did not)

@zens@merveilles.town the question of "is it UV or is it oxygen" is an interesting one as people in retro communities swear up and down UV exposure is what yellows plastics and i've had a dreamcast yellow to smoker teeth tinge completely light-sealed in a closet

UV affects thermal paper and keeping it dark should in theory keep it longer, but you're still fighting against the chemical stability of the paper itself regardless

i'm not sure, for thermal paper, if oxygen plays a part

@zens@merveilles.town the quality of the image "burn" also influences it, a very finely dithered picture faded quicker than a highly contrasted text print for example

@zens@merveilles.town longevity also depends on the quality of the thermal paper, i've printed on very cheap receipt rolls and had it fade in months whereas using a high quality fax thermal roll lasted for over a year so far under the same conditions

@zens@merveilles.town i imagine you can make it last longer if you can laminate it in something that blocks UV light, but it's still not going to be a stable print

@zens@merveilles.town not that i know of, anything of the sort about increasing the longevity of thermal prints boils down to "scan it"

@suricrasia only one i've used is dokuwiki, it's much simpler than mediawiki for good and for bad

even if you don't set out to make enemies they're bound to show up anyway

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i took a vga capture cause i was too lazy to make a proper screenshot on the real w98 machine i'm using and then manually uploading it via ftp to my other machine

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@eggboycolor is it perfect? absolutely not but to say that it "fails in critical details" is a hell of a disservice

the one thing NTC did wrong was leave designers in charge of the business end of the model and selling them at a loss

@eggboycolor i really enjoy mine and self-adhesive rubber bumpers is all it took for the keyboard to be usable

not to mention even DS/3DS cartridges that use NAND can die over time if they're not powered with a certain frequency, if you have no power running through it you have no power running through it whether the eMMC controller has smarts in software or hardware

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