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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by userbinator »

ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

The Internet seems rather reluctant to explain what exactly "pixel cleaning" does, but based on the vague useless "explanations" I could find, I suspect it's a sort of "flat-field correction" where it calibrates the pixel drive current to darken the less worn and/or brighten the more worn ones so it eliminates the burn-in effect. This obviously leads to a vicious cycle where more worn pixels are driven harder and hence wear faster...

IMHO OLED is a planned-obsolescence dead-end anyway; LCDs can last literally decades, maybe with a backlight replacement, but OLEDs are designed to fail in a few years. I have a few (rather expensive) pieces of test equipment with OLEDs that became unreadable after only a few years and had to be replaced (fortunately with a regular LCD, and some firmware patching), while others with old-school CSTN/TN LCDs are still fine.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #87

Two weeks ago I told Claude “I have a on the LAN at . Assume direct control of it.” And about 8 command approvals later I had a new firmware running on it. Mind you, it found and used an existing firmware flashing library for this family of devices. But it felt amazing to do in 20 mins what would probably have been hours and hours of research and tinkering that I wasn’t interested in. I just wanted a WiFi lava lamp.

Surprising. I have hit its BS guardrails a lot lately, working on my vintage computers from the 80s and early 90s. Just about done with Claude.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by [deleted] »

fwip wrote: post #76
frio wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it’s impressive work from the LLM and a TS implementation is novel, there’s at least a couple of pre-existing Python REs eg. https://github.com/jya-dev/supernote-tool :)

It seems like most of these "an LLM solved this in only X hours! " could have been "I found an open source solution that did what I needed with X minutes of web search." Which doesn't mean that the LLM definitely couldn't have accomplished it without the prior art (in either the training set or explicitly in a a web search). But it does seem to be a trend.

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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

SoftTalker wrote: post #79
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That feels like it should only require a single person working on the product to experience and demand an immediate fix.

You are making a subsistence living in China writing TV firmware on contract to LG. Why do you do anything other than exactly what they ask for?

Sure, someone at the bottom of the totem pole may not have autonomy to make decisions. There are others who can dictate policy. Is there no LG salesman who wants to take home this unit and becomes embarrassed about the behavior? A LG VP who might have this very unit on the desk?

The second day of owning this monitor and seeing the same message should be a wake up call to everyone in the LG product line to fix the annoyance.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by NegativeLatency »

ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

Or update the firmware to do it every n hours or screen blanks or something automatic with no nag

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by mrheosuper »

As FW engineer, I am both horrified and intrigued.

The fact that there are so many devices lack even basic security features horrified me. A webcam that activity light can be turned off remotely, that's a big no no for me.

But the use of LLM is also very interesting, we may put LLM in the loop to harden our devices.

Sorry community, but it's our job to make the reverse engineer harder.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by diabllicseagull »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #2

I'm hopeful that in the future we can end planned obsolescence from devices that require companion apps which eventually get shut down. Just vibe reverse engineering replacements.

we could have ended planned obsolescence decades ago if we put strong policies in place. I would really like a systemic solution instead of every-man-for-himself vibe coding. I've been following the "stop killing games" movement for that reason. fingers crossed.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Barbing »

simonw wrote: post #88

We have a Samsung Frame TV. I told Codex to scan our network to find it and then build a custom tool for updating the image gallery that it uses when it's in "art" mode. It did that, and now I can tell a Codex session controlled from my phone to "use this image" and it shows up on the TV a few moments later.

Neat. What’s the lift from here to get a zero-token spend image upload?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by kulahan »

Aurornis wrote: post #54
ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last. You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care. Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for the alert is a strange self-defeating protest next to the explanation that it was a pretty expensive monitor.

How is it strange that among the 900,000 1-minute tasks you need to complete on a given day, this one is low on the list?
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