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My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Unfortunately the author won't be able to comment on HN since he got banned 10 years ago. As a result, he created another site some might know https://lobste.rs https://jcs.org/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news

Anybody wanna invite me to lobste.rs ?

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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> Since the LG UltraFine exposes a USB HID device to control its brightness, I wrote a driver to attach to it and expose the brightness adjustment through wsconsctl display.brightness. Wow, that is impressive both from the device _and_ from the author. I wonder how many displays support controls over USB? Personally, I hate having to manually adjust my display's brightness in the evening. Edit: This got me curious an…

I'm surprised more people don't know about ddc (which works over displayport). Been using it with this gnome extension on Fedora for a while now. https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil

I use a wrapper script around ddccontrol. Combined with backlight, I can set both monitors at once.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

#123

Unfortunately the author won't be able to comment on HN since he got banned 10 years ago. As a result, he created another site some might know https://lobste.rs https://jcs.org/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker_news

Anybody wanna invite me to lobste.rs ?

Sure. email in my profile.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Doesn't using a single DIMM for memory really kill the performance? I thought basically all Intel & AMD CPUs have two channels of memory controllers. So for optimal bandwidth on the memory you need to use a multiple of two memory sticks.

It's perhaps a bit worse in terms of raw throughput. It likely doesn't impact the user experience in any perceivable way, though.

On a chip with integrated graphics, though, throughput starts to matter a bit more.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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I am using exactly the same monitor right now (it has a tendency to burn-in with pink edges, so I put it on my living room for occasional "different desktop" usage with my laptops). It is pretty amazing.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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I'm surprised more people don't know about ddc (which works over displayport). Been using it with this gnome extension on Fedora for a while now. https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil

I use a wrapper script around ddccontrol. Combined with backlight, I can set both monitors at once.

For anyone in macOS, I highly recommend MonitorControl (https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme).

No affiliation, just a happy user for nearly 2 years now.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Or people who argued that “the eye can’t see more than 60fps”

Or people who argued that "4k is pointless, you can't see the different with 2k anw".

For me, there's only a difference for the text console. For GUIs I have to halve the resolution to make things usable so it doesn't really help anything.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Maybe my perceptions are out of date, but cleartype, while technically allowing higher font dpi, had a rainbow/screen door effect that stood out like a sore thumb for many of us.

The effect depends on the screen technology you use. Windows guesses the pixel layout, but you can tweak ClearType to fit your screen better. You can open a wizard that takes you through six steps and asks you to select the rectangle with the best text (out of six rectangles) to tweak it to your liking. When the subpixels don't align, ClearType can be ugly as hell, but for me the default guesses always worked out.

It can still be seen with the correct subpixel layout.

Re: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)

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Your comment made me check my own (LG Ultrafine 5k) and it’s 140W… That’s crazy. I love this monitor, but am interested in a high quality, lower power option if anyone knows of one.

Did you really measure these 140 W or does the power brick says 140 W?

My LG monitor has a brick that goes to 65W, but the measured power consumption is ~20W at the wall. ~12W in short idle (screen turned off less than ~1 min ago). ~0W in deep sleep, which is where it spends most of its time.

I am running on minimum brightness, since I'm indoors.

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