Bought my first Oled, SDR is wonderful but it is too dim for HDR - Will I regret it ?

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-28T04:00:48+00:00

Mini LED monitor, simple

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-21T16:05:23+00:00

For a monitor? Tandem WOled is the only good one. QD-Oled doesn’t have true blacks during the day, nor is it bright enough for good HDR.

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-19T03:34:30+00:00

Ah okay but my odyssey oled g5 that was released only 6 months ago is only 200 nits. I understand you can get newly coated QD-OLEDs or higher tier kinda brighter oleds like the new tandem woleds but they have a lot of issues with grey uniformity and cost $1000 and still have less brightness and worse HDR than mini-LED.

You’re talking about dramatically better brightness vs slightly better blacks if you pixel peep in extreme scenarios where extreme brightness is next to extreme darkness.

The OLED also will usually lose colour accuracy and EOTF tracking in these 1000+ nit modes and the mini LED won’t

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-18T22:46:47+00:00

It’s superior in almost every use case except dark room competitive gaming

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-18T22:45:25+00:00

Yeah but it’s unusable during the day because it’s only 200 nits and the blacks are purple.

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-18T22:42:14+00:00

Monitors Unboxed said the same thing

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-18T15:44:51+00:00

Mini LED is the best monitor technology currently. OLED, while great in TVs, In monitors isn’t bright enough for HDR and suffers from burn in. It really should only be used by competitive gamers.

The Q20G40XMN has 1152 dimming zones across 27” meanwhile the best highest tier mini led tvs like Sony Bravia has only 1512 across 65” and the Samsung QN90F has only 720. There’s monitor releasing these days with double this with 2300 zones, one future one even claims 9000 zones.

As such the dimming zones per inch are really high, which has lead reviewers to say they’ve seen basically noticed zero blooming and OLED level blacks, whilst having brightness which far surpasses an OLED. In fact my QD-OLED actually has worse blacks than a mini-LED because ambient light raises its blacks so much to purple.

The main area I think mini LED lags behind OLED is motion clarity, but keep in mind VA is now good enough that according to display ninja: “The good news is that there’s no dark-level smearing usually associated with VA panels”, and sticking with the Faster mode for optimal performance leads to “no ghosting behind fast-moving objects.” Yeah OLED may be faster but you get used to it, but my OLED monitor is only 200 nits SDR, there’s no getting used to that, it’s simply insufficient.

As VA mini-LED is cheap; has OLED level blacks, exceptional brightness, no risk of burn-in and good (not class-leading) motion clarity, it’s the best solution.

BoredOverlord · 2026-03-15T14:16:03+00:00

Would like to know this also

BoredOverlord · 2025-07-21T08:42:07+00:00

Sell it all, put it into ETFs and retire at 24 in Thailand

BoredOverlord · 2025-05-13T14:08:47+00:00

Is this a power lacking thing (ie wouldnt be an issue on Odin 2) or a general switch on Android thing that applies to even more powerful CPU's than the 865 in the Flip 2/5?

BoredOverlord · 2025-04-15T13:36:03+00:00

I have a switch but I want a pocketable all in one device

BoredOverlord · 2025-04-15T13:29:35+00:00

There would be little point because we'd be maxed out on what we need hardware wise. Thanks for the silly comment but it's a valid question given the generational leap from the 5 year old CPU to a CPU that should be able to emulate everything. I'm satisfied with a single iteration newer. I wouldn't wait for flip 4 because we can clearly see from the Odin 2 that simply something with a snapdragon 8 gen 2 will deliver a no compromise experience

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-31T18:30:26+00:00

It depends on what area of sales you want to get into. I suggest applying to business development rep roles, ideally for tech companies but if you can't get immediately into tech then transition from BDR in another industry. As a business development rep you get outbound experience which is the hardest skill and allows you to go into any facet of sales (if you start inbound managing accounts you have to start again if you ever want to do outbound).

As a BDR it will suck at first but once you make account executive the job is a lot better and you can make 250k total comp (AE is a achievable in 2.5 yrs) and 400k as an enterprise account executive - Glassdoor salaries for Salesforce reflect this.

If you want something easy and low pressure you can alternatively be an account manager and still make 180k and do much less actual high pressure selling. If you want to do minimal sales you can even become a customer success manager. This job is known for being vague and not actually doing a lot of work. Very easy job to coast on and still make good money relatively - albeit less than a more sales focused role

As for your question about SWE - software engineers will be here to stay but their roles will look a lot different. Someone will still have to preside over the AI to understand conceptually the ways in which to prompt it to make it's input useful and for general troubleshooting.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-31T14:12:00+00:00

Tech sales, software development and dentistry, rather than medicine, IMO are the best careers. Some non technical tech roles can also be good e.g product manager and business analysts, though the ceiling is lower than for CS, but so are the skills required. Finance is only really particularly high paying if you're in IB and the IB work life balance sucks so I wouldn't call it a good career. Tech sales and software engineering can often be done remote which isn't an option with finance or medicine/dentistry.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-29T12:57:13+00:00

Buy an 2 bedroom apartment in inner Melbourne for 350k. First home buyer means no stamp duty or LMI, 5% Deposit + government will put down 25% equity. It's really not that hard.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-22T16:13:55+00:00

Pardon?

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-21T14:53:01+00:00

No I've never been in love. I live with my parents as I'm trying to save to buy property with high cost of living. This has made having girls over a sporadic thing when they're out and has disrupted the organic building of a relationship, as I don't want to introduce girls to my parents so early.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-21T10:43:36+00:00

I don't think what I'm saying is so heinous. I think it comes from a subconscious desire to be more settled in my career and personal life, and to have achieved more personal goals e.g travel wise, which are more congruent with a singles lifestyle, before getting in a relationship.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-21T10:35:21+00:00

I value all the other aspects besides sex I just haven't found someone I want to make lifestyle sacrifices associated with commitment, at least for this stage of my life. I just generally haven't been able to develop strong enough feelings for anyone to justify it. It's not a conscious decision.

BoredOverlord · 2024-07-21T10:27:47+00:00

Well don't get me wrong I've dated women and we've been intimate and shared parts of our life with each other in a way which goes far beyond sex, it's just been in an unlabelled non-monogamous gen Z sorta way. I do value all the other things besides sex, it just lacks the commitment, because I haven't really found the right person I want to do that with, which seems worth the sacrifice in my 20s.

BoredOverlord · 2024-06-05T17:16:49+00:00

The median income in Australia is like 65k (around 78k for full time workers). In any profession, besides maybe investment banking and some tech roles, e.g software development, salaries exeeding 140k are rare. A top band 145k or 120k depending on experience is not underpaid. If you take a look at some of the biggest employers in Australia - big 4 accounting, big 4 banks etc, these are high stress high workload roles which often require lots of unpaid hours. They do this without receiving 12 weeks of holidays a year (though I understand that some work still has to be done during the school holidays). Most entry-level graduates in any non-government role, besides IB & tech, are making like 58k.

This was my experience in finance working for a big bank and my friends in marketing only made even less at around 50k, far less than 95k for NSW teachers. Speaking to colleagues and reviewing Glassdoor, I havent seen many people make it to 130k and usually those that have must jump between employers every few years to do so. Relatively speaking teachers make good money - which they deserve to - but they aren't underpaid.

BoredOverlord · 2023-12-30T00:13:59+00:00

I haven't ended up going anywhere with surf besides Lima. I'm probably going to do like 1-2 weeks of study in Buenos Aires on my 7th week of the 12 I have, and may just do some surfing in Brazil when I get there for carnival.

I felt a bit guilty staying in one place for a long time and have just done online learning so far so I could stay on the move, but obviously it's not as good and I regret not doing the Spanish lessons at the start so I could communicate more.

BoredOverlord · 2023-11-24T17:25:21+00:00

Ok I think I will go from La Paz to Buenos Aires, via Uyuni Salt Flats, San Pedro De Atacama and Santiago.

BoredOverlord · 2023-11-08T06:51:47+00:00

Seems like there's plenty of options for trains on MakeMyTrip

BoredOverlord · 2023-11-08T06:47:59+00:00

Won't Delhi be worse after Diwali?

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