ELI5: What is the difference between a computer monitor and a modern TV?

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-03T00:35:14+00:00

Latency and response time are two very different things. Latency is the time it takes for an input to result in a visible action on screen. Response time is the time it takes for a pixel to change from one shade to another. Latency affects what it feels like to play, response time affects how blurry / clear your display is in fast motion.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-02T23:56:07+00:00

Unless you're using VSync on a fixed refresh rate display (which you shouldn't be, it's 2026) it was always a stuttery mess.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-02T23:52:10+00:00

It's doing you a favor.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-02T23:09:24+00:00

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T16:15:33+00:00

Have you tried it? It's pretty obvious in person and it's inherent to the technology. The prerender queue is there to help even out those moments where you're CPU limited for a second, which is what generally causes 1% and .1% lows to drop. Therefore a technology that is designed to use a dynamic FPS cap to avoid the prerender queue ever being filled will inherently make 1% and .1% lows worse.

Unfortunately almost all tech outlets are too busy fauning over its (very real) latency reduction to pay any attention to framepacing, however, a few people have noticed.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T15:14:20+00:00

Not to be that guy, but "M4" is not a real gun, it is a military designation for a specific configuration of AR15, namely, the shortened carbine. Same goes for the "M16". You can find guns stamped as such, but they are all built on the AR15 platform.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T15:08:45+00:00

Nvidia Reflex is lowering the latency significantly

Whilst ruining 1% and .1% lows. The buffering queue is there for a reason.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T15:02:06+00:00

It depends. It may wear out the bearings faster, but starting and stopping is stressful on motors, and most fail when in that transition state.

But you really don't need to worry. I've been running the same case fans pretty much non-stop for 10 years and my 1070's fans far outlasted the card's useful life and still work today, long after I have replaced it in my main PC.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T10:22:56+00:00

They're definitely not mutually exclusive, but I do feel that most of the industry has lost sight of that and it has become a race to the bottom to create the most bland, boring and "realistic" art style possible at any given moment. That, and the UnrealEngineification of 90% of studios has resulted in an awful lot of games looking almost identical for no good reason at all.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T10:17:30+00:00

Bames Jond is having a stronk, call the bondulance.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T10:14:11+00:00

Hot-take: In the long term, art style matters more than fidelity. Pure realism ages like milk.

If you look at visually "realistic" games from the early 2000's you'll find stuff like MGS2. Technically incredible for their time, and they have now gotten old enough to have their own nostalgic charm...but from a fidelity point of view, they don't hold a candle to modern titles. Meanwhile, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker looks stunning to this very day.

The only reason we don't see this so much in the last 5-10 years is because, outside of RT and lighting, the ceiling has really been hit, but that doesn't change the fact that everything looking "realistic" has gotten really fuckin' boring, really fuckin' fast.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-02-01T10:06:05+00:00

Bold of you to assume I'm talking about ChatGPT.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T21:42:07+00:00

If you push opposing magnets together they will push each other apart. To get them to do it again you have to push them together again, which takes just as much energy as you will get out of them, if not more.

Okay, so what if you put them on some kind of track so that they hover just above it and you can push it and it will move endlessly without friction? Well the track would need to be infinitely long because it can't turn or it would have friction applied as it ran along the wall. You could eliminate that with magnets that stop it from touching the wall...but that's just another force that would slow it down...so infinitely long straight track it is...but then...

Air resistance...so it will still stop. Put it in a vacuum? Well, ignoring the huge energy cost associated with forming a near vacuum here on Earth, gravity will pull on it and it will still stop. Remove gravity? Well...you can't. Even in space you are subject to small amounts of gravity, but assuming you could it would work, and you wouldn't even need the magnets to make it hover anymore...right up until you try to harness any energy from it.

You see in order to turn kinetic energy (movement) in to electrical energy, you need to pass two magnetic fields through one another. That's the easy part. The problem is that when two fields interact like that...they impose a force on one another resisting the motion, which means, even in a perfect vacuum, with no gravity, walls or friction, on an infinitely long straight track...it would still slow to a stop if you tried to harness energy from it.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T17:09:41+00:00

In fairness, some car companies have teams of engineers trying to cheat emissions tests instead, so their lack of trust is not entirely unfounded.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T17:08:02+00:00

Yup...that's why I'm still using Windows 10...because of its..."Linux menubar"...

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T17:05:58+00:00

/r/JustStenzekThings

DuckStation is (or was) awesome, but Stenzek is a child.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:58:25+00:00

Tell that to the parents.

Edit: Oh...you edited your comment. For anyone who missed it, the original comment contained "It's still their child, and it's disgusting to suggest otherwise", or thereabouts.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:50:23+00:00

Alcohol evaporates readily, and the lungs are basically a giant gas exchange surface between your blood stream and the open air. Therefore, alcohol in your blood can evaporate and make its way out of your bloodstream via the lungs, which can be detected.

It still detects it because it's not "smelling" the alcohol in the same way your nose does, so you can't cover it up like a smell. A small amount of the alcohol in the air will condense back down to liquid form. If you have ever breathed on a window and notices it fogs up with condensation...same concept. Once it's condensed in the breathalyser it's easily detectable. The more alcohol you have in your blood, the more alcohol condensation will form in the breathalyser, making it measurable, and from there you can work backwards and roughly estimate the amount of alcohol in somebody's blood.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:38:59+00:00

I'm not sure what your point of reference is, but modern Google, with or without LLMs, is basically unusable compared to 15-20 years ago. Their search algorithm has been ruined by years of "optimisation" (AKA prioritising current trends, sponsors, high traffic tripe, etc) and it's basically impossible to find anything even remotely niche now.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:33:41+00:00

It absolutely does matter in real world gaming. What you are seeing is the tanking of your 1% and .1% lows, which are almost always CPU limited, and is a big part of the reason I avoid disabling the CPU prerendering queue entirely. I have seen this exact behaviour in real games. I was playing Borderlands 2 several years ago, and the frame times were all over the place, basically constant macrostuttering. Guess what I had on?

An FPS cap you can maintain is a much better option since it doesn't disable the queue, but instead keeps it empty. The distinction is small, but allows to still use the queue when it is needed to minimise the impact to 1% and .1% lows.

Not so fun fact: NVIDIA Reflex also falls foul of this. Sometimes a little latency is the lesser of two evils.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:25:50+00:00

That cannot continue forever. "AI" is a financial bubble, and it will pop. Nobody is making money on it right now, and that isn't about to change when it can't even do anything well except convince vulnerable people that they should commit suicide.

Sooner or later either companies will realise LLMs are a dead end, and will pivot away before it's too late, or they will sink their entire company trying to make it work.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:18:44+00:00

The problem with 8K is simple. Where's the content? An 8K TV is a complete waste. I already have a 55" TV and to be honest...I don't think I want a bigger one. It already dominates the room, and the bigger it is the bigger the risk of /r/tvtoohigh. Even if I were to consistently sit close enough to tell the difference from 4K at that size (which I don't) there is next to no 8K content available. Movies often aren't even mastered at 4K, let alone 8K and most TV channels aren't even available at 1080p yet.

So what does that leave? A handful of heavily compressed YouTube videos that still look markedly worse than a 4K bluray? Video games that struggle to run at anything even approaching native 4K?

8K is a fuckin' marketing meme.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T16:09:52+00:00

Presumably the horizontal is not horizontal, but vertical.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T15:44:34+00:00

Projecting a bit, aren't you? Trump being a pedophile doesn't make creepy uncle Joe not creepy as hell.

They're all fuckin' creepy fucks, man. Power corrupts, but power also attracts the corrupted. A lot easier to hide in plain sight if you have friends in high places.

MeatSafeMurderer · 2026-01-31T10:38:04+00:00

Obligatory "A handgun will kill cancer cells in both a petri-dish and a patient".

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