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Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by GJim » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 8:54 AM UTC

throwaway2037 wrote: post #342

jszymborski wrote: post #327

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I had a similar experience with Dell after they wanted the price of a new laptop for a replacement laptop battery. This was for the Dell Studio back when battery packs were made to be swappable by simply sliding a latch. After that phone call to customer support, I made a similar vow to never buy another Dell product. These days, I use a Framework laptop.

You couldn't buy something from eBay or TaoBao/Alibaba?

If Sir is buying his lithium batteries and/or power transformers from the likes of eBay, Alibaba and Amazon, then Sir may wish to check his fire insurance is up to date.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

vel0city wrote: post #490

alias_neo wrote: post #432

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> too long to boot, it's fucking 2024 what is your BIOS doing it needs more than 2s to boot? Me crying in first-gen Ryzen/x370 with my upward of 20 seconds POST time.

Why does it take that long to post? I've had multiple Ryzen 300-series motherboards, none of them take anywhere near that long to boot outside of using something like some server-grade HBA that has its own boot step.

I have no idea, but it's a known issue, memory training maybe? It's a gaming PC so nothing special going on, ROG HERO motherboard, 32GB DDR4 (4x8GB), GTX 1080Ti.

I haven't used it much in recent years, I built it for gaming but had kids a couple of years later, now I game on whatever is convenient in the small burts I get; which is also the reason I haven't bothered upgrading it.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

ChoGGi wrote: post #470

alias_neo wrote: post #432

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> too long to boot, it's fucking 2024 what is your BIOS doing it needs more than 2s to boot? Me crying in first-gen Ryzen/x370 with my upward of 20 seconds POST time.

You'll love ddr5 times.

Sarcastically, or seriously? Is the issue due to memory? Training or something?

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by throwaway2037 » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:41 AM UTC

GJim wrote: post #521

throwaway2037 wrote: post #342

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You couldn't buy something from eBay or TaoBao/Alibaba?

If Sir is buying his lithium batteries and/or power transformers from the likes of eBay, Alibaba and Amazon, then Sir may wish to check his fire insurance is up to date.

I have bought many third party rechargable batteries from those sites over the years. Yes, slightly lower charge capacity compared to original, but no fires. And, yes, I know my sample size is small!

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by kalleboo » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 12:44 PM UTC

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #287

lbrito wrote: post #194

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Do you have 20/20 eyesight, and how tall are you? I use glasses (myopia) and can kind of tolerate the edges of my 32" 4k monitor, but I can't fathom craning my neck all the way up to the edges of a 55"+ display. Not to mention font sizes.

Isn't it good for a little exercise? Maybe we should have 300" monitors so we jog from one edge of the screen to the other as we type code :)

How about a 2000" monitor so you can run alongside Mario across the whole map on screen at the same time? https://youtu.be/X5OIucMnw7M?t=809

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by achalxyz » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 1:31 PM UTC

I have used a Samsung 43” 4k smart monitor with my mac mini for sometime as a replacement to multiple screens and it was a productive experience. However, I had to stop in 2-3 months as my eyes would get dry and itchy at the end of the day. Using such a large screen at such a short distance isn’t great for the eyes I think.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by GJim » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 1:59 PM UTC

throwaway2037 wrote: post #524

GJim wrote: post #521

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If Sir is buying his lithium batteries and/or power transformers from the likes of eBay, Alibaba and Amazon, then Sir may wish to check his fire insurance is up to date.

I have bought many third party rechargable batteries from those sites over the years. Yes, slightly lower charge capacity compared to original, but no fires. And, yes, I know my sample size is small!

One ebay sourced Chinese transformer that blew its back off (!) letting our the magic smoke and tripping the RCB was enough for me.

These days I'm older and wiser.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by bbor » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 2:10 PM UTC

kennethrc wrote: post #505

bbor wrote: post #338

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Same, though I'm also on 49" (5120x1440). They're selling them for extra cheap on Amazon with extended (36mo) warranties because they're prone to breaking, but I had the Samsung contractors out here this month and they did a great job fixing mine that randomly died one day -- for free! If you're a chill soul, I'd say it's worth the risk. I sound like a shill, so Samsung plz hmu. $999 for a beautiful OLED monitor that…

> OLED I use mine for productivity only (I don't game at all) and it seems the consensus is OLED's no good for things like Kconsole/xterm (-style) windows and general text readability, though.

Huh, interesting! The pure blacks are gorgeous to me, but it’s possible I don’t know what I’m missing. Never noticed a problem with size 8 font

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by illiac786 » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

dllu wrote: post #174

Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…

Do you use macOS with this and if yes, do you often share your screen? I find large monitor unusable for screen sharing on macOS in general as it will share a lot of blank space and the window you want to share, making the window minuscule for anyone that does not have an 8k monitor like you.

Admittedly it’s a macOS issue.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by biddendidden » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 6:09 PM UTC

dllu wrote: post #264

itronitron wrote: post #256

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I'm curious how much heat this thing puts off, and whether there are particular display types that generate more heat than others.

Yeah it does emit a bit of heat. I think around one or two hundred watts? I haven't measured it directly. I have a mini split air conditioner in my home office.

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