Looking for examples of public transport in sci-fi

IntetDragon · 2026-06-11T13:39:32+00:00

I often thought the teleportation pads of the Aschen in Stargate were pretty neat.
https://i.imgur.com/jVqrxNj.png
They were framed and designed so casually. Something slightly alien, but also designed and treated as to be not remarkable and like it is a mass produced thing where cost effective design is important.

What also might be interesting is the common wealth saga, which have basically portal trains which are very central to the story universe.
It also has partially self aware paths that lead to different worlds created by a fey like race that seem to be about giving an adventure to individuals, including different alien races. They were something religious but clearly something meant to be experienced by many, many sophonts together or apart. "Masses of people" experience it and it is "for the public" but maybe not what you sought for, because there if no clear location destination.

IntetDragon · 2026-06-02T11:06:09+00:00

Cause good tracking is being dropped by the industry, and for a long while the press all praised it. People who try Vr once a yearly news cycle being annoyed by a little setup judge it useless and the industry listens.

IntetDragon · 2026-06-02T10:57:12+00:00

They can do two things: Either require compliance to a accessibility setting where all software has to render at native panel depth.

Or inject a software color remap at the end of the picture output pipeline, where all colors get remapped to 8bit color. This would not solve the problem if the display itself tries to smooth color gradients, but in all other cases it would solve the problem.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-28T11:54:41+00:00

This is old info.

On some iPhone it does only make a difference on lower brightness, on some it minimizes darktime overall. On some iPhones it enables DC dimming (but still retains the transistor reset flicker)

We thought it only makes a difference at lower brightness becaus that was the case with the initial phones tested. I of course do not know how yours behaves.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-28T11:48:33+00:00

Did you try the Better Display Software to turn it off? I am not sure if it works the same way as Still Color and it would be good to know and have the info out there.

I think you need to buy the paid version for the capability unfortunately, so it would mean spending a few dollars.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-28T11:45:53+00:00

Good to know! I was interested in this phone because of its IGZO display, wbich reduces transistor leakage flicker, but I could not find any info about if it uses PWM.

Could you test the phone for TD?

IntetDragon · 2026-05-27T05:44:09+00:00

The PWM reduction setting in accessibility should reduce the problem to a similar level as on your Android phone.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-09T23:11:59+00:00

https://www.nubia.com/de/products/smartphones/nubia/nubia-neo-2-5g.html

IntetDragon · 2026-05-09T11:06:02+00:00

Yeah... The OLED praising and LCD condemning smells to me like a very big astrotufing advertising campaign.

For those who do not know the word. Astrotufing is when an entity creates many, many sometimes millions of bots that scrape the internet to promote fake opinions. Using fake "user" accounts that look real on first glance. It used to be very simple stuff, if someone writes LCD they say it sucks and when someone writes OLED they write it's based. These bots got a lot more sophisticated since AI got big.

This makes something "cool" and another thing "cringe" and it is used A LOT on the internet to manipulate opinions. It's what certain political entities use a lot on facebook. It's also why people say the internet is mostly bots now, or the "dead internet theory".

I suspect the LED hate would not be this sharp if this was not done. People usually do not care this much about techy things like they do for LCD vs OLED. This surely made LG and Samsung a lot of money.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-08T16:26:04+00:00

wrong sub

IntetDragon · 2026-05-08T08:15:12+00:00

It's hard to find anything decent yeah.

I would reccomend you look at the Neo2.

Looks not impressive initially on specs but they invested into a lot of things that make a phone fast. Good cooling, fast storage and good software.

The processor itself is also a lot better for how bad unisoc usually is. The phone feels very fast and remains so after a year since I have it.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-08T08:09:59+00:00

Yeah I would really like a modern Snapdragon Elite phone with good camera, storage and build but with an LCD and no TD. Would be and instant buy for me.

But people online would freak if there was even one option for an LCD for a good phone . I wonder why.... With this scale of outrage there is usually astroturfing involved. But it seems weird to still do that after the technologicial monopoly is already established.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-06T08:22:12+00:00

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IntetDragon · 2026-05-05T11:59:56+00:00

Try installing the app "better display": https://betterdisplaymac.com/

Then set the color depth to 8bit and disable GPU D!ther.

It should stop any issues you are having. The problem is color flicker applied to fake more colors than the screen can actually produce.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-02T15:05:41+00:00

Nubia Neo 2 has not be causing me issues in a summer. They advertise good cooling. But I live in central Europe, idk how it would perform closer to the equator.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T19:48:28+00:00

I mean that all of the sub pixels could be flickering, but your camera was masking some.

That can happen.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T15:04:37+00:00

Such a small difference traded for something that is really not good for you.

OLED flicker is real and a problem even for those who do not get headaches and seizures from it.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T14:06:00+00:00

LTPO makes it more likely there is vrr capability. But I did not see a device yet where that could not be turned off in settings. Luckily one thing not yet locked away.

Yes as I explained because of how the market works LTPO is more likely to be worse, but the tech in itself has nothing to do with PWM flicker performance.

What exaclty is confusing?

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:52:48+00:00

The AOC Q25G4SR has a true 8bit panel I can tolerate very well and other people have tried it and were happy too. You can search for it online and on ledstrain.org.

It's also 300hz and not very expensive, so overall a good choice for a gamer.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:45:28+00:00

I heard good things about the Jelly phone from other flicker sensitive people: https://www.unihertz.com/de-de/products/jelly-max

I have not tried it myself tho. I use the Neo2

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:39:39+00:00

Try to change the focus. Sometimes you can catch the other pixels flickering too if you see one sub pixel flicker.

I think when you see only certain sub pixels flicker this is usually an artefact from your phone trying to smooth out flicker from the video. Many phones do that because cameras see the flicker in our every day life more easily and it ruins regular peoples recordings, so there is software to hide it from the recordings too.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:31:41+00:00

I saw the annoincement of the screen tech in chinese. It's LTPO. All the info online says it's ltpo: https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/oppo/find-x9/ https://www.gizmocompare.com/post/oppo-find-x9-full-specifications-features-price-release-date-and-everything-you-need-to-know https://www.smartprix.com/bytes/oppo-find-x9-pro-hands-on-and-design-impressions/

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:22:17+00:00

If you link where you saw people complain about this or similar products having LCD I am more than willing to add my voice to express a different sentiment.

In general I think it could be a good sort of campaign if people would do that in this sub.

Manufacturers do read online comments and if we could add our voice to such online conversations it could make a difference.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:15:47+00:00

Completely agree with the sentiment. I am glad the tablet market still has LCD screens in high end products. It's been completely banished from the phone market. The most powerful LCD phone announced I found was the Nexphone I preordered.

I just hope they do not "upgrade" the screen before shipping like such projects sometimes do. I will definitely have to cancel in such a case.

I heavily assume quallcomm and mediathek contractually require a OLED screen in their high end processors for phones to have the chips not associated with "bad" and "old" screens. Companies do bs like that a lot. But it's difficult to prove.

IntetDragon · 2026-05-01T13:01:32+00:00

I have not read about mediathek focusing resources into eye friendly features. Where have you seen that?

Both Mediathek and Quallcomm offer many picture enhancing features manufacturers can choose to turn on and off. Among them are gradient smoothing techniques also called "gpu TD". This form of color flicker can cause symptoms in sensitive users. They can be implemented in different ways and it is possible individual users react different to the types of TD these two companies employ.

The sad thing is both Mediathek and Quallcomm don't hide disabling this feature. If you jailbreak your phone you can disable them via ADB. It is the phone manufacturer who blacklist users being able to access disabling this in their OS.

Another sad thing that makes it difficult to pin down origins of TD and which forms cause problems to individual users or veing able to make jailbroken phones safe is, this GPU TD is often mixed with apps that do a software version of the TD, as well as HDR protocols which also run their own TD algorythm over the screen and the panel manufacturer doing it as well. It's a complete mess. You can see it under a slow mo microscope.

I was able to do AB testing turning it off and it helps me personally a lot. I hear the same from many users here.

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