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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Do not disassemble a CRT on a whim. Even if you’re being careful, it can go wrong. There’s strong magnets, glass under pressure, capacitors that can hold a deadly charge for a long time, and toxic chemicals.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Strong magnets? That's not something I've ever come across having worked on several CRTs

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They are part of the deflection yoke. If you saw that chunky core wrapped in magnet wire on the skinny end of the tube that's what that was. They aren't always permanent magnets, most of the later model TVs used electromagnets, but it's how the electron beam is moved across the screen. All of them will have very strong magnets somewhere by design.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    They may not get your face, but that thing is pretty recognizable. Maybe do a mass produced guy fawkes mask instead?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Don't those old monitors have high voltage components that you can use to make a DIY tazer, if not kill yourself in process.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes. The capacitors can carry a high charge for a long time. Much longer than you'd think. Also there is a pressurized glass tube with very strong magnets which could lead to sever pinching or breaking the pressure tube.

    It's definitely not something people should do without knowing what they're doing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Not just the capacitors, the tube itself is a capacitor that handles multiple kilovolts, so you can easily hit the wrong side of the flyback transformer or poke the wrong part of the tube and get fried.

    Not just an "Ouch, don't do that again", more of a heart just stops.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    CRT taser sounds like a very poor idea

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Fun fact: Anything with a big capacitor/s can be use to make a DIY taser, sometimes it's as easy as removing the case to expose the circuit board and pressing that against your enemies.

    Brings me back to when everyone in my highschool got really into DIY tasers. Some of us still carry the burn scars.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Me and my friends figured out you could buy big CRT televisions for about $12 from thrifts once flat screens were a majority. We used to smash them with baseball bats in the woods. Did this over and over because it was cheap thrill. Never realized how dangerous this potentially could have been.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    We had a guy in our city rob a bank, wearing a hoodie, but it exposed a bit of his face, which showed him to be Caucasian.

    Later they realized that he had used a stretchy fabric hood with a face printed on it. They sell them on the Internet, often with celebrity faces. When pulled over the head, it clings to your face, and looks a lot like a real face, if you don't get a close look. It fooled the little local cops and news for a minute. It might work well to fool facial rec, especially when all the protesters are described as looking like Kobe Bryant.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The big brain play is to get a stretchy fabric hood with your actual face on it because why would anyone do that? If they question you, say that you're being framed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've wondered about the ethics of wearing a mask with a different race. It's supposed to throw off the authorities further, but the ethics of blaming it on a black person are clearly questionable.

    OTOH, the whole idea is to throw off the authorities, so it makes sense to do that. Then again, aren't they going to see right through that, and know it's really a white guy? Cops? Probably not.

    I'm just thinking I'll get one with a woman's face, and really blow their minds. Or maybe one with Trump's face, but that just offends my own sensibilities.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The key is to breathe in the microplastics deeply.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Y’all on microplastics, I’ve been on that macroplastic grind since I was three. I eat a Lego every day with breakfast. My body may die, but it’ll be preserved like a majestic twinky.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That poor CRT monitor deserved better than that.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ok but what about Gait recog ?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You'll still need to get around gait recognition.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A few shots of spirit can fix that.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A rock in one shoe and a buttplug askew…

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Until ai recalibrates & notes that as your disheveled state.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I find this cute! ♥️

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean, sorta, except then you'll be the dude with the white plague doctor mask, so....

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trying to decide what’s worse: trying to breathe or the feel of adhesive and sharp bits of plastic against my face.

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  • Hide you face but it's not "grey man"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hmm. Yeah I can see how someone could look at the back of a CRT and envision the sloping down of a forehead into a long beak.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    But where did the bottom piece come from? It has tiny holes all over and i cant picture any part of the case that has that contour. And its never shown in any other pic

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bottom of the mask is the part cut out in the top right picture. It comes from the slope on the top back part of the monitor.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No the top right is clearly one of the face pieces, you can even see where half the eyehole is cut. It also has a large portion without the little holes in it just like the face pieces.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You're right, I clearly didn't look at it close enough.
    However, I think I am correct for the source of the material. Now that I look closer I'm pretty sure that the top right picture is actually of the monitor turned on its side. And then he would have taken the matching cut from the other side of the monitor for the other side of the mask.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    And face coverings are now illegal in public.

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