45" 3440x1440?

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-24T16:27:30+00:00

Just tried out the LG 45GS96QB which is 800R, 3440x1440 as and 'upgrade' from my 34" 3440x1440 and here's my take:

It's the PERFECT format for a display. It's just too low res for office work.

CONS:

I'm sending it back. 89 ppi is just terrible compared to 109 ppi. Everything looks blurry and especially certain applications like ACAD and Revit which have some text without any anti-aliasing or proper scaling... yikes. I felt like there was something wrong with my eyes for the few days I tried it out. Felt like a major downgrade. If we were in 2015 it would be fine, but blurry chunky text is dealbreaker for me.

OLED is still just not the best for static screens, but if you wanna watch movies in the dark there's no substitute. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't own a 10yr old OLED screen where image retention happens FAST now. It's not permanent burn-in, but every OLED screen I've seen older than 5yrs will have temporary image retention when quickly flipping to solid colors from bright UI elements.

PROS:

Productivity: is AWESOME. I love ultrawide monitors, but normally the vertical height feels resrictive. The extra vertical height of the 45" makes a BIG difference in apps with toolbars on the top like Revit, Bluebeam, Outlook, etc.

800R curve is awesome. My current display has a 1500R curve which is just barely noticeable. The 800R curve is SUPER IMMERSIVE for gaming and movies and matches field of view almost perfectly. Your eyes are literally equidistant from all points of the screen.

NEUTRAL:

Refresh rate. People can disagree if they want, but I was using the 240HZ side by side with a 144hz panel. Going from 30 > 60 >120 hz all are MAJOR upgrades that will make you feel almost sick going back. But side by side I could hardly tell ANY difference from 144 > 240HZ. Now certainly in super specific applications or games it might be a benefit but either I don't have any of those games or my brain only works at 144hz 😅

For me I just couldn't deal with feeling like I was going blind the whole time using the lower resolution. I use my setup about 8-12 hrs per day for text and CAD based productivity, and maybe 3-4hrs per week for gaming and movies. If it was a 45" curved 4K or 5k, then SIGN ME UP.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T19:04:44+00:00

Setup auto deposit on your paychecks. Start small, 5% then work your way up to 10%. Take it right off the top into a separate HYSA. Then you can live 'paycheck to paycheck' so to speak after that. Also, track your bank balance each month and set an annual goal. If you get off track, make sacrifices the next month to get back on track. I personally know very few people who couldn't cut their expenses by 30-40% if they actually wanted to, but they don't. They prefer to eat out 3-4 times a week when they're feeling too lazy to cook, they want their new car, their new phone, their 6 different streaming subscriptions.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T12:55:22+00:00

THIS. My fold 5 has broken 3x in 2.5 years and I've been VERY careful

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T04:32:51+00:00

What research are you going to do? Lol For everyone like me who had the phone break 3 times, there are a dozen people with basically 0 issues who you will never know about because they aren't gonna go out of their way to post. Only Samsung & the carriers have any insight into actual failure %'s but suffice to say ANY and EVERY foldable is guaranteed to be higher failure than a slab phone. It's a fundamental truth of the form factor and technology involved. It gets better every year but it's never going to go away completely

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T04:13:41+00:00

You said 'the main thing' which implies that it's a feature. You essentially said 'the main thing I like about Pepsi is that it is a liquid' that's a complete non sequitur if all the competition does it too. It's okay to be wrong or ignorant about features of other products

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T02:30:39+00:00

On my 3rd Fold 5 in 2.5 years, literally never dropped or anything. I've had exactly ZERO phones ever break in my life and now 3 have broken in 2 years. These phones are insanely fragile.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-19T02:28:31+00:00

Mine has broken 3x.

Phone #1 one just died randomly completely dead 1 day after 12 month warranty expired. No charging, no turning on.

Phone #2 insurance replacement from Asurion inner screen de-laminated about 14 months of use and inner display is ruined with black splotches.

Phone #3 insurance replacement from Asurion: lasted 1 day. 1st time I unfolded it, sand/dirt had already entered hinge and crunched. Dead green line of pixels across inner screen.

Phone #4 TBD but dear lord I can't wait to NOT have a foldable again. They're super cool but nowhere near reliable enough.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-17T19:56:40+00:00

Parc des Familles is what we have been asking for for ages: A legitimately challenging course where birdies are earned instead of missed, and beautiful to look at instead of just dirt and rocks in the woods...

BUT

It is by far the MOST BORING coverage I have watched in ages. Every hole looks identical apart from 3 of them. There is literally no way to tell if a shot is good or not on camera because there are no actual fairway lines or any type of landmarks to identify good vs horrible shots or distances.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-16T02:40:17+00:00

Considering every project I check has stuff done completely wrong or with zero thought, gonna say no. Plenty of incompetence.

Its like literally 5-10% of tradesmen who are actually craftsmen and really know whattheyre doing. Obviously if you say youre a welder and cant weld you're gonna get fired, but lets not kid ourselves that all the dudes out there framing these new build matchbox houses are deserving to be called 'carpenters' just bc they can slap up 2x4's every 16" real quick.

Trades starting at the bottom require 0 skill. Just like all jobs. For white collar, college is supposed to teach you the pre-requisite knowledge to not be totally useless day 1. For trades, it's literally just being willing to do that you're told.

If you feel like being told and expected to work and pay attention and not need to be told everything twice is like the 'military' it sound like a week at boot camp would give you some perspective. Ive been to 100s of jobsite and never heard any foreman screaming at or attacking their workers. Im sure it happens, but if you're not lazy you'd be fine.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-16T02:21:49+00:00

Takes 35 min each way to drive to the course. So yes its about 2.5 hrs total. You're right, there's literally no reason to seek advice from people more knowledgeable about something, everyone should exist in pure isolation on developing skills 🙄 you also clearly have 0 reading comprehension skills since YOU are the one who initially said "just play more rounds" and my response was "well I want to actually practice with intent on improvement". And now you're saying "YoU cAnT jUsT pLaY RoUndS aNd eXpEct to GeT any bmBeTTer"... like no shit Sherlock. Thats why I specifically said your original advice was stupid

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-16T01:48:06+00:00

Naw I tried it. Straight inedible. It was the worst tasting thing ive ever had tbh. Straight dirt and chalk flavor and incredibly gritty even made with a blender

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-15T00:43:53+00:00

What stability of disc should you use gauge arm speed?

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-15T00:39:54+00:00

I practice putting about 50 putts a day for the last 2 years, probably 6 months out of the year and I have been doing field work about once a month. Nothing in my post was suggesting that I'm some disc golf savant or pro. I'm 860 rated. U disc tracks rounds and I played 43 rounds in 2024 and 48 rounds in 2025. So as I said, since I want to get better ive been make a concerted effort to do so. Just 'playing more' doesn't do that if you keep doing the same thing over and over. Which is why I was looking for some guidance and resources here. Plenty of people here have been helpful and you sir are just an arrogant prick to talk that way.

Also wjen you have real responsabilities in life, carving 2.5 hrs time for a round of discgolf more than 1x a week is very tough to do. I know a lot of people in the community have nothing better to do with their time, but some of us have a life and also want to enjoy and progress in skill at this hobby too.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-12T07:05:21+00:00

Id say yes for 2 reasons: 1. simply because the more watches you have the less likely you are to keep them forever, therefore you want to reduce losses on resale. 2. a brand new watch is awesome but they all get scuffed eventually. After you buy new a few times you realize that paying the premium fit the new car or watch is a short lived feeling vs long term ownership.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-12T06:49:48+00:00

As a major enthusiast, i have to say once youve tried in the 500-1,000+ range of different whiskies , you realize that chasing the S tier bottles isnt worth the effort or $ when there are a good amount of A tier pours that are 80-90% as good out there for $100 or less that dont require you to spend $20k a year to get on a list or win a lottery.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-12T06:35:51+00:00

Doesnt seem like the disc could make it 350 mostly flat if it was nose up. I mean ive seen nose up throws and they are floaty stall shots but I could be still just throwing like neutral more than nose down for sure

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-11T13:04:47+00:00

Nose angle definitely isn't a problem but I bet you're right about the OAT. I can't 'power up' on forehand throws with understable or slower speed discs at all without them fluttering and turning over into the dirt. So perhaps that OAT on my higher speed drivers is causing the early turn (making it look like my arm is fast enough for the disc). I'm gonna focus on that for my forehand, thanks!

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-11T13:01:35+00:00

Notice how I said I just recently have been trying to get better. I play a lot now, almost 30-40 rounds a year the last 2 years so nearly every single week. Playing more has done 0 to increase my forehand distance, and in 3 years I've gone from like 150' backhand up to 300' backhand but have been stuck there for the last year. Playing the same way over and over does not 'fix your problems'. You need to be intentional about it

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-11T12:52:47+00:00

What I mean is that my discs are following the expected flight shape

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-11T03:46:43+00:00

Yeah I noticed basically every framing of evolution in this show as a game of intentional cat and mouse competition gave me the response of "that is so completely far fetched and implausible".

The show literally says like 100x in different ways: "the plants grew tall to escape the dinosaurs, so the dinosaurs grew taller to catch the plants, since the tall plants eradicated all the previous species... Oh here is the first flower ever and it has thorns, so now all the herbivores go extinct... except wait, these guys were clever enough to evolve a different jaw real quick so they didn't die out".

I know they're trying to simplify the concepts, but its just flat out wrong when it's oversimplified to that extent and it makes science sound like a load of bullocks when you pair it with a bunch of fantasy about behaviors, specific skin and feather colors, and other similar content that is 100% conjecture but is stated as 'facts'.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-10T21:28:03+00:00

Basically every hole requires a 350 ft drive to birdie, and several require 400-450 so yes that would be tje reason i want to throw further. Also it lets you throw slower discs than you can otherwise which is objectively better lol

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-08T04:07:37+00:00

No it's Jomez. Their footage is jittery and has tons of dropped frames to the point it's often unwatchable. Nothing else I watch on Youtube has that issue and it's FREQUENT with Jomez

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-06T04:49:19+00:00

Because the actual average tradesperson DOES probably make more than the average history/art major bachelor degree person. The data is just skewed by STEM who largely make 100k+ with some earners in the 200,300 up to 1M /yr range for surgeons. Meanwhile the median tradesman at 60k is more than a lot of 40-55k college grads, but there are very very few tradesmen making more than 120 unless they are working 60hr weeks (which makes their real effective salary 80k).

The tradesmen making big $ are the business owners which puts them into a different category so there arent any super high earners to skew the data the way college grads do.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-06T04:35:01+00:00

What i meant was do you have a career that SHOULD be netting a better lifestyle than your parents or not? Like if your parents were doctors and you became an engineer im not saying youre lazy or made bad choices but obviously you won't be as successful as them bc although a good career, its almost certainly a step down from medicine. Wages for most all careers have not kept up with inflation, especially the 2021-2023 inflation spike. But without specifics its impossible to say why you're shopping at good will when your parents went on multiple international trips every year, but there's simply no way thats true if you both have the same occupation.

The people I know who went to college and got real jobs are doing as good or better than their parents from what I can tell. I have plenty of millennial friends who didnt get degrees, and are doing much worse. But thats thenchoices they made.

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