I've looked it up and apparently the term is still used in parts of Germany and is a recognized job title in Austria ("Radio- und Fernsehmechaniker"). Anyway, looks more like a linguistic rabbit hole rather than a technical one.

When I was a kid, I knew someone whose job used to be "television mechanic." Is that term just a leftover from the electromechanical era or were there actually mechanic TVs at some point?

In a year or so he will pad himself on the back for "rawdogging a podcast" on a flight

Prince of Persia. The original. On a monochrome ember-colored display. Once we upgraded to a color display my parents were both shocked and amused by the gruesome bloody death scenes. The animation is still very pretty

If anything, it's better not knowing the game since you don't know which characters may stick around, become important etc

No more unicorns, Scotland's national animal be damned

Great pose! 👍

Putting a USB camera on a drone is a good way of crashing it when it loses remote control. Don't ask me how I know