TigerHawk

Interesting. I am kind of half looking for a new OLED display as my main monitor. I have a CX 48" OLED and it has pretty terrible burn in after ~4 years of 10+ hours a day usage, even after hiding the taskbar and setting screensavers and stuff right from the beginning. I feel like there was nothing and then suddenly it showed up about 6 months ago out of nowhere. Could have been so gradual though that I didn't notice until it was too late. only shows up when there is a bright blue background such as a clear sky or similar, green blocks of some kind of grid outline clearly visible right dead center in the middle about 1/4 of the display across. Gonna need something to replace it soon and I will probably downsize.

You can try reading my post instead of ignoring information that contradicts your opinion...

I was under the impression most manufacturers were instead researching into miniled instead since it would be functionally similar but no risk of burn in. I haven't heard anything about the technology in a couple years now, though.

FWIW for those worried about OLED burn in: I've been using the 48" LG OLED 4k/120 TV as my main monitor on my PC since 2020 and have 0 burn in. I just checked on a blank white screen and a blank grey screen a couple weeks ago because I was curious. Facts: This is a monitor that sees a minimum of 10 hours screen on-time every single day of the week with browsing, gaming, office work, etc. It is no exaggeration to say I live, sleep, and eat in front of it. OLED Light 90% Contrast 90% Brightness 50% Color 80% all you have to do is set your task bar to auto hide, and set a screen saver for like 15 minutes when idle. I do not feel this is unreasonable(no the screensaver does not come up when consuming full screen content). It is used as a monitor 100% of the time. I do not use any of the built-in smart/TV functions. It is only a monitor running at 4k/120 via HDMI with Gsync enabled. GPU it is connected to is a 3090. My TV has done a total of two(2) pixel refresh cycles in the 2 years I've had it(purchase date 10-2020) Unless I am somehow extremely lucky, and I think I am a pretty damn extreme usage case, burn in does not happen as easily as you think. This is over 7000 hours of screen on time with no burn in, as I rarely let my PC go idle unless I am cooking or having a shower or something so the screen saver is up for probably less than 1 hour a week. Screen is powered off when I leave the house or go to bed. On the topic of the monitor, this is actually pretty sick. My buddy was just looking at getting a nice 27"-32" high refresh QHD screen and we were disappointed IPS is basically as good as you can get still and there were no OLEDs. this is gonna be a pretty big seller I bet. Expensive to be sure, but a lot of people will buy it. Once you go OLED you can't really go back.

How long until someone has a cracked version of the HVAC software/infotainment(wherever the software button is hidden) and it just enables all features. Pretty fast I'd wager. Just like Tesla. Edit: This is why, frankly, you should not trust any manufacturer who starts burying HVAC features in the infotainment. It just lends itself to software locking out something that is physically present and ready to use in the device to milk money out of you. From VW to BMW to Subaru. If it doesn't have physical HVAC controls or other features that have been physical for decades and instead it buries them in a screen, I don't trust it.(glossy black "touch" controls are shitty too but at least they can't be software locked out for $$$)

This whole thread is giving me a serious "What year is it?" Vibe. I was pretty big into IRC at the turn of the millenium but around 2004 or so I left and never want back. I even worked at a few servers for awhile. I remember everyone and their grandma using that Invision script I think it was to customize their mIRC client. Nerds brandishing their e-peen with the PC spec reporting script to see who had the most ram. XDCC bots were the place for people to pirate movies and music. I remember getting a full 5kbps one time on my dialup connection. What year is it?

Does EA even develop anything anymore? Or are they just a publisher these days taking 80% of profits from the development studios under their umbrella? I think EA Sports™ is a developer, but EA themselves? I mean, I am not sure ubisoft is going to do a better job than EA, but its different and they deserve a chance at least.

I mean this is neat, but inb4 they just start saying they do not support anything but their own devices, so you have to rent it or don't get service.

I have to wonder if the rumour from Videocardz is true, about the December release of the 20gb model. nvidia and board partners could be witholding dies to slap on those models for higher markup, and they probably predict those to be the biggest seller, so they just aren't making that many 10gb models right now. Not the only reason for the shortage, to be sure, but could be a significant contributor.

IMO if they want to compete with google they should have to put in the decades of R&D and work google did to get where it is today. You can't tell me Microsoft can't afford it with Bing. If Apple wanted to, they definitely could. If the old search engines wanted to compete back in the day, they should of had a clean ad-free front page like Google did. I still remember an old comparison from like...idk 2006? Comparing Google to Yahoo and Ask Jeeves and Lycos and all of them. All full of ads and other bs and Google is just a plain white page with a search bar. There is a reason people chose them back in the day. Don't get me wrong, I am not naive enough to think google isn't making serious bank on selling statistics and userdata from everything people search. Common searches from domains in this part of the world, etc. I am just saying it doesn't feel right for people to get a free ticket on the back of someone who invested billions of dollars and probably millions of man-hours to get where they are.

I mean...I get the whole anti-monopoly thing but seriously, Google is the most used search engine for a reason. It gives the cleanest, most relevant results for like 99% of searches. Try anyone else's search engine and its usually a waste of your god damn time because they don't index pages even half as well. If they want to complain Google has a monopoly on search engines, how about you just make your own damn search engine better. It's like a fat guy complaining an athlete is faster than him at the 100m sprint. How about you just work harder and try to keep up instead of trying to feed the athlete abunch of cheese burgers so you might have a chance.

These people def play or played EVE online, sitting in Jita. Scam as old as the internet.

Same. I've had ATi and then AMD many many times and I always end up with some stupid driver issues and whenever I have nvidia it is always smooth sailing, except for that one time when a driver update almost killed my GTX 260 because it made everyone's fan profiles flat, no spin up at high temps. To their credit, they fixed it real quick at least. I do really hope AMD can compete at the high end this time, and by compete I don't mean similar performance +/-10% but 300x the heat and noise. Looking at you, 290X! That being said, I was expecting to say something along the lines of "To at least get nvidia to lower their obscene prices" this time once again but the 3080 for 699 is downright reasonable for 2020. The 3090 though................

My work laptop here in Canada is a Toshiba but after we updated the bios earlier this year/late last year, the boot up splash says Dynabook. This must of been coming for awhile cause these updates are circa late last year. All of our Toshiba laptops now say Dynabook in the bios and the bootup logo, all models going back a few years now. It seems some of the bios updates did absolutely nothing but change the logo from Toshiba to Dynabook...........

Man....I was just entering adulthood when the PS2 came out. Feel so old right now....its not even nostalgic for me because it doesn't bring me back to childhood.

Do we have any news about this causing delays for the Galaxy S20 release? I had it preordered at bestbuy for the bonus items and just got an email last night saying my order will be delayed 2-3 weeks "due to overwhelming popularity".....yesterday was supposed to be the shipping date with the 6th being the release date. I can't find any news on it at all yet, but its still early morning in north america.

I just don't see the point of it....would you use it for some kind of compute work? But its a laptop and the formfactor would have all kinds of issues with heat and limiting performance and all that.... What would be the use case for this to exist in a mass-produced form? I could see some kind of show-off device for a convention but to be available to purchase...... Who is this thing for where they wouldn't just be using a workstation/server machine instead at a much reduced price? Imagine leaving this thing in your car and having it stolen. My buddy just got his wallet stolen cause he left it in his car overnight like a dummy.

Huh. A laptop for over $20k? Neat. I'd rather spend that on an unfinanced brand new 2020 model year car, though.

I mean, do bad guys ever have a product placement on them? Maybe a car but they are always using what appears to be a generic phone, you never see them drinking coke or pepsi or whatever and if they have alcohol its always in a special multi-use bottle as they pour it into a glass, never the original wine bottle or crown or something. Not really surprising to me, just apple is more of an everyday product for most people so it stands out more

Wow that's pretty scary but it seems to be a vulnerability more regarding hardware, not WPA2 as a security protocol. If it was the protocol itself, everything would be affected. Just looked up the hardware on my home router and its Qualcomm so I am good to go, providing all my receiving devices are clear as well but its somewhat hard to find what radio your TV uses......or hell my consoles too. I have to look up everything.

This is pretty awesome. I wish I could have done this with Wolcen but it was on steam. I might rebuy it later but right now and for the foreseeable future it is a huge buggy mess where half the stuff doesn't work. Reminds me of Anthem, which I also bought into cause I'm bad at this. I have to wonder if it is going to make developers/publishers reconsider having their games on GOG though. Too risky and open for abuse?

This is pretty awesome and I'm excited to see what can be done with it. Inb4 bought from dude and patented by some huge corporation but keeps selling for 200k/tonne and no one can ever use this method.

The irony of this is not lost on me and I am finding it quite hilarious. But yeah didn't expect to see Canada up there. Part of my humble Canadian nature, perhaps.

Oneplus wants to have a word with you. The Oneplus One came with Cyanogen as the pre-installed base OS. I had one, and it even had "Cyanogen" engraved on the back of the sandstone grey rear panel. Sadly I sold the phone a few years ago or I would take a picture. Late models of the One lost the Cyanogen label, though, and they broke their partnership not long after and Oneplus created OxygenOS instead. I heard of the Essential phone awhile back but never really looked into it. Was it basically an upstart phone maker like OnePlus was ~5-6 years ago but had their own OS? Edit: Photo from google. Credit to Oneplus.com

I mean, to be fair...all you need to do to get around the missing headphone jack is a little dongle adapter. While there are a lot of bulky horrible/cheap ones, there are some nice slim ones that work well and some phone manufacturers even pack it in the box for you. Expandable storage is not really something you can conveniently add like that after the fact so I think its the more important thing they are cutting out. That being said, personally on-board phone storage has been enough for me ever since we progressed to 64gb models as the standard. I do take some videos and photos, but I tend to delete the old ones after a few months and even with all my music I'm usually around 20-30gb free on a 64 gig phone. With the new standard being(probably) 128gb or higher, I honestly don't see an issue. One exception being those 8k videos on the S20....if you take a lot of those you'll probably need the 512 model + the expandable storage(at least in north America it has an SD card slot) Missing headphone jack kind of sucks but honestly really not a big deal with the wide availability of quality dongles on places like amazon. People seem to think that no headphone jack means wireless headphones only, and I understand the aversion to wireless. Charging them and keeping track of them can be a real hassle sometimes but jesus just use a damn dongle for Christ's sakes and quit your crying about it. That connector came out in the 50s and as much as I'd like to keep it around for ease of use, too, losing it in modern 2020 smart devices is not a big deal with the alternatives available.