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by jcims 2325 days ago
Pixel clocks... haven’t thought about those in a looooong time. When my old 14” packard bell monitor world act up i would bust open x11config and taze it with a hilariously overdriven clock.

Probably should be illegal.

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There was just a kerfuffle about the HDMI output on the Raspberry Pi being able to jam its own wifi at certain specific resolutions. The dot-clock multiplied by the line encoder landed right in 2.4GHz.
It’s kind of a marvel this doesn’t happen more frequently. The transmitter hack for rpi can jam mobile phones within a short range.
As someone who has read lots of anecdotes (but sorely little actual anecdata) about poking CRTs with out-of-range values and has thus kept well within defined limits for fear of breaking my own stuff... what did this do?
Blitz the screen a bit, nothing particularly satisfying.