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Ctrl+L data:text/html, Enter F11 Lately I had been thinking that task _"fill your screen with colour X (really fast)"_ would make a nice (ugly) interview question, revealing creativity and exploring different approaches. For maximum points I'd expect candidate given task "fill your screen with black" to simply turn it off.
People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…
Mine doesn't have one, it does have a touch activated area that's not findable by touch because it's completely smooth.
1. Pretty simple to implement, you could make this in a few hours 2. Tell's a story and justifies its existence. 3. It has some degree of utility so at the least the creator will use it for a week or two before giving up on the gimmick 4. Easy to understand within 30 seconds, which makes it good for interviews 5. The code is probably small enough that it could be reviewed during interviews
Good project lmao
People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…
Nope, two on my right hand monitor
> The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default
Nope, no button at all on the left
> You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall
reinstall? What is this 1998? If I did have a new computer then when I restore my essential home directory (~/bin, ~/.vimrc etc) any script would be in there
People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…
Maybe if you have a download or some other long-running process that you don't want to interrupt? What I think would be useful is some way to manually use DPMS to actually power off the display. The only thing I'm aware of is using xset on Linux / X11.
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It's a computer monitor, yes. I don't know about a misfeature, I love it. What's dynamic contrast?
I have never seen a monitor that turns off with a black screen (aside from dynamic contrast mode). What happens when the screen needs to turn back on? Does it freeze for 1-3 seconds? > What's dynamic contrast? Shutting certain backlights to raise the contrast between the dark side of the screen and the lit side. It has various undesireable side effects such as the darkening and lightening giant areas unexpectedly. Th…
No, it takes around 200ms for it to turn back on.
> Shutting certain backlights to raise the contrast between the dark side of the screen and the lit side.
Ah, no, there are no sections in this one, the whole backlight turns off and on.
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People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…
> Only 1 keypress per display Nope, two on my right hand monitor > The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default Nope, no button at all on the left > You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall reinstall? What is this 1998? If I did have a new computer then when I restore my essential home directory (~/bin, ~/.vimrc etc) any script would be in there
That UX seems completely unnecessary
> Nope, no button at all on the left
Buttons are nice. You can press them. You can feel them. You can see them.
> reinstall? What is this 1998?
Believe it or not, in 2021, if you've missed the window to do a dist-upgrade before Ubuntu EOLs the release (which is much quicker on non-LTS), there's no easy way to upgrade the distro - the recommended option is to reinstall.
> any script would be in there
What about on Windows? Now you've got different repos for different OSs, which you manage. Any script you write needs to be maintained. The button is universal. No extra effort needed. No maintenance.
You press the button and the monitor shuts off. It's the perfect UX.
People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…
> The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default Mine doesn't have one, it does have a touch activated area that's not findable by touch because it's completely smooth.