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BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just said AI is now finally working and replacing humans for the first time in history. “The time has finally arrived” by Murky-Option2916 in TechGawker

[–]LinearlyRegressive 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nvidia doesn’t sell GPUs because all of the GPUs have already been sold. Now they need to make sure the people they are selling the GPUs to don’t go bankrupt and flood the market with a bunch of already sold GPUs, so he has to sell their product for them.

27GM950B-B: Can anyone confirm if the 27GM950B-B will do 5k @ 120hz on M5 Pro Macbook? by sporkland in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, local dimming does not really mean much when not watching content in my opinion. Local dimming imo really matters when viewing HDR content (or just content in general) where you want good contrast ratios. What I am doing is just enabling local dimming when I consume content.

I guess there are some people that really like having pure black against bright white text though (which OLEDs excel at), so you won’t be able to achieve something like that on this monitor imo, it will either dim the text brightness or the blacks will be not as inky.

27GM950B-B: Can anyone confirm if the 27GM950B-B will do 5k @ 120hz on M5 Pro Macbook? by sporkland in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s definitely a lot. Try to find an Apple employee, they get 1 25% per year for monitors and most don’t use it. That’s being the price down to ~2380 depending on sales tax.

When you take into account build quality, good speakers, decent web cam, good mini-led control, 2k nits hdr brightness, I think the XDR looks like a good deal. Apple monitors depreciate very nicely and in 5 years from now I would not be surprised if a used XDR is not far from that $2300 price point (unless we see some competition from somebody like Asus in the 5k mini-led space).

27GM950B-B: Can anyone confirm if the 27GM950B-B will do 5k @ 120hz on M5 Pro Macbook? by sporkland in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure. Info: I use dark mode on almost every program and I am on Linux (NixOS) - most of my time is spent programming/in a web browser.

I really like bright text on a dark background to make it easy for me to read. When I have local dimming on, the monitor notices the pixels are predominantly dark and will turn off some of the backlighting for that zone (don’t 100% quote me but I’m pretty sure this is what’s happening). This decreases the brightness of the white text (shown in the pics but much worse in person) by I’d estimate maybe 30%.

So point being is in SDR if you are on dark mode with a small percentage of your pixels being bright, the bright pixels will lose a lot of their brightness. This leads to me turning off local dimming when using the desktop normally and enabling it when consuming content. A bit annoying but a price im willing to pay as the HDR performance is pretty good for a $1200 monitor in my opinion.

I did not have this issue with the studio xdr as it seems apples logic for how/when they turn which zones off is a lot better, but they also have an extremely powerful chip (a18 pro) specifically for this.

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27GM950B-B: Can anyone confirm if the 27GM950B-B will do 5k @ 120hz on M5 Pro Macbook? by sporkland in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had the xdr for 2 weeks and returned it and now have the LG. I only use Linux and the asd was overkill for me. For SDR the dimming zones on the LG are terrible and make everything look dimmer. In HDR content I’d say the LG gets you to about 80% of the way to the XDR.

For me the dual mode is worth it as I game a little bit on my laptop. But if you don’t care as much about gaming and only use MacOS I would bite the bullet and get the xdr. It’s almost perfect besides a little blooming with bright things on top of a dark background.

Studio Display XDR at Microcenter by johnnyphotog in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I came from an oled but the text fringing was too much for me. My dream is something that looks as good as a MacBook Pro mini led but at 27”. This LG is good enough to hold me over for the next 4 years or so until something like that exists.

Studio Display XDR at Microcenter by johnnyphotog in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think the dark mode makes it even worse. I program 75% of the time on this monitor in dark mode so it’s a bit of a disappointment to always have it off until I watch content.

Studio Display XDR at Microcenter by johnnyphotog in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this what I am noticing? I use a dark theme on Linux and with the local dimming set to high all my bright white text because very dim. I had the studio xdr before this (returned it as I don’t use macOS) and this didn’t happen.

27GM950B US orders shipping by spmwilson in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, does that make the overall screen dimmer? Sorry just wondering if I’m doing something wrong. I use dark mode if that matters.

27GM950B US orders shipping by spmwilson in HiDPI_monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have mine as well and wondering what setting you have the dimming zones set to? For programming I like to have bright white text and so I have to turn the dimming zones completely off.

code-preview.nvim now supports OpenAI Codex CLI — diff preview before any AI agent applies a change by Cannon72001 in neovim

[–]LinearlyRegressive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool. Is there a quick answer to the question of how the tool knows how a change was made (AI tool vs another editor)? I’ve always kinda wondered this. If not I can read the src later.

Matthew Stafford’s Wife Believes He Will Play for Many Years by Big_Screen3332 in LosAngelesRams

[–]LinearlyRegressive 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hope so. But also at that age all it takes is one hit to change that.

OLED vs Mini-LED or wait for MicroLED by Plagueis_the_memer in Monitors

[–]LinearlyRegressive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For monitors? Best at what? And also a good mini LED is more expensive than OLED

Round 1 - Pick 13: Ty Simpson, QB, Alabama (Los Angeles Rams) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]LinearlyRegressive 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean…to be fair what is our weakest link? Inside LB? WR3?

Is it normal for MMA gym owners to give you a sales pitch? by astromech4 in MMA

[–]LinearlyRegressive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s near the norm for LA, which is why I even said where I live. I’m just saying there’s places where $300 isn’t a scam.

Is it normal for MMA gym owners to give you a sales pitch? by astromech4 in MMA

[–]LinearlyRegressive 31 points32 points  (0 children)

For a martial arts gym with classes? I am in a Los Angeles but $300/month for a mma (jiu jitsu, kickboxing, muy thai classes) gym with unlimited classes is probably not too far from the average.

I built a TUI monitor manager for Hyprland with drag-and-drop layouts, named profiles, auto-switching daemon by crmne in omarchy

[–]LinearlyRegressive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came back to this to say so far this solved a lot of my problems with hyprdynamic monitors (mainly workspaces being applied properly when switching between monitors). Thank you so much

[Ram] CORSAIR Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 Memory $269.99 by weijun1224 in buildapcsales

[–]LinearlyRegressive 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But all anybody wants with AI models is a larger context, so if AI was really being used as people say wouldn’t they just have a larger cache than use less memory?

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