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So this all started when @richsrandomret1.bsky.social asked why some handheld PCs have odd colours. Like this:

Using my hard-won extensive knowledge of why colours suck ass sometimes I put forth some theories. The gist was colour quantisation was happing somewhere, somehow and not that some balmy system integrators just liked purple. With only 256 colours on these displays the logical answer is: RGB332.

RGB332 is well known for sucking ass, since it makes some very fundamental tradeoffs: 1. It only has two bits of depth for the blue channel 2. It is evenly distributed across the spectrum and thus- 3. It really, really sucks at grey-dients.