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  • one of the few upvoters here 😂 this is mostly not wrong. most people don’t give a shit, don’t be mad just because you don’t like the truth. however, I’m still gonna blame billionaires, or by extension anyone with the mindset of trying to become a rich person. all of these rats actively undermine democracy using highly effective lobby campaigns. you can only blame the plebs to some degree. they’re stupid but also too stupid to fix it. meanwhile most people with higher education have no sense of compassion and just afford themselves a few more blissful years. we’re cooked, guys, time to finish what you wanted to do in life and get ready for the bad days 😂







  • SitD@lemy.lolOPtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldHDR Confusion
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    4 months ago

    Ah cool, I didn’t know that there are layers of capabilities for different requested brightnesses. Thanks for your in depth reply! I’m also a 1000 nits enjoyer but I don’t switch on any lights - I like when my eyeballs get blasted with colors. 😂


  • SitD@lemy.lolOPtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldHDR Confusion
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    4 months ago

    Hey there, thanks for the comprehensive reply, I learned a lot. Also, your blog is fantastic, I’m always happy when there’s a new post =)

    Question about the last point: I feel like in SDR mode, the OLED is pushing brighter images. I almost feel like it’s underselling the capabilities at 270, but does so to give pixels a rest every now and then, in the hope that the bright spots don’t stay stationary on the screen. It’s a wild guess, I have no idea.


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    4 months ago

    I’m using all of them sometimes. ^^ Washed out colors are not an issue on AMD anymore as you said it, but on nvidia I can’t seem to fix it. I wonder if this is happening to absolutely everyone, as the arch wiki makes it sound like nvidia 545+ has been reported working…

    About the contrast: I wish I could, but I found that the factory default was 70% and it did seem to often cause noticeable dimming because the image was too bright for the max avg luminance. It felt weird and I think it’s because Alienware, like many manufacturers, just can’t resist blasting the consumer with overtuned contrasts to get a purchase out of it.





  • I’m on endeavour, though i also really liked manjaro. in terms of nvidia+wayland I’d say it’s very flaky.

    • vrr works SOMETIMES. i have to log out and in 2-3 times into my account until the option shows in the settings, and also functions as proven using vrrtest-git
    • standby corrupts cuda and you’ll need to modprobe or reboot to fix it.
    • hdr shows up but looks really grey and colorless for me, but it might be my monitor’s edid being faulty. kde’s sdr color vibrance option didn’t help.
    • external screens are dropping frames, down to 30fps, where it was fine on windows with 60.

    Keep in mind this is a 3060 laptop gpu. that means it could well be due to mux switching or whatever else. nonetheless i think nvidia seems more reliable on xorg as of this point in time, and I’m not going to buy another nvidia gpu.

    this might not apply to desktop cpus at all but i thought I’d share these in case someone else has the issues as well and knows a fix, or knows for sure it’s better on desktop, so i can reconsider my stance for a tower build 🤔


  • SitD@lemy.loltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy do you still hate Windows?
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    4 months ago

    there are too many little details to point out but windows just controls your experience too much. for example on a widescreen i don’t want to be forced to have the taskbar on the long edge. and up to including w10 the taskbar placement could be chosen. in windows 11 it’s forbidden… i installed a software to hack this but of course then explorer.exe breaks every 10 minutes.

    the spirit of computer technology is a universal tool. Microsoft strongarms the user to be a tool. so no thanks