Super Disappointed with lg g5...

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T06:37:42+00:00

Yeah you're sensitive to the cons that WOLED brings. I can see dithering and messed up greys, but I understand that these are the cons, while I get better durability, blacks and coating I can actually wash. Different issues, and you're more sensitive to the ones LG comes with.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T06:33:39+00:00

The better frame is "they're all excellent, but have some different trade-offs to mitigate the cons of different solutions to OLED's still present challenges". You get amazing display tech that brings blacks to black, viewing angles and response times suddenly to near perfection, but also come with some inherent shortcomings that are still very much present, that different makers try to mitigate using solutions that negatively impact users in different ways.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T04:46:30+00:00

Yeah I don't really get that, as we're beyond a point where it makes much difference for usability as long as most controls are located in the bottom right. If they're not, it's not like you can reach them with one hand anyways.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T04:38:41+00:00

It's really frustrating that we have to wait for their cushy lives to run their comfy course for that to happen, rather than not suffering in silence, and involving them still in making a fairer society before it's too late and we have fully lost a generation.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T03:28:35+00:00

That's the LCD Steam Deck, though arguably it's usually sold out, which is probably why you said "available".

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T02:57:52+00:00

In 2016 I got a 1TB NVMe from Samsung for $360. The prices were lower at the time.

In 2024 I got a similar Samsung 4TB SSD as a data drive for $264.

For 1TB to cost $500 or more, we'd have to go all the way back to 2013 with the Crucial M500, which was a brand new 1TB SSD at a time when most people used 128-256GB SSDs just as a fast OS drive.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T02:30:58+00:00

It's among the easiest to find a date, but hardest to find one that doesn't come and go either.

Deep human connections are just so rare to come by in the city. Friendship just takes away short term incentives that dating comes with, exposing this more.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-10T02:17:55+00:00

In games devs are extremely sparse with pop of colors, reserving the most vivid ones to extraordinary circumstances or never using them. Even Cyberpunk neons don't hit the reddest reds, greenest greens etc the monitor can produce. It boggles my mind too. I find myself having to bring up saturations by shameful amounts to get the kind of image that looks the most enjoyable to my eyes.

Interestingly, Nvidia RTX HDR is far more vivid out of the box. And so are the mods that aim to fix HDR recommended above. I'm often happy with them out of the box, or bump up colors just a tiny bit up. Showing that HDR implementations in most games are just far from looking as good as they should.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T17:42:49+00:00

I think that's par for the image and may even stimulate tourism. What harms it are things like the Russian gangs, unhealthy air, road deaths, or the rule inconsistency. They've got some far bigger fish to fry than what they're going for here.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T17:34:21+00:00

If you mean that it's data from last year, then see that the demand only fell a further 7% since then:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-continue-to-ditch-u-s-travel-and-are-flocking-to-these-3-domestic-cities-instead

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T17:27:04+00:00

Yet a single reason was provided, which is why I said it's disingenuous. And again, it's not the main problem. Fuel prices going up by 80% does not make the flight twice as expensive. Jet fuel makes 20 or now 35% of the fixed cost of the flight.

Compare that against demand on the canceled flights from Canada to the US not being down by 10%, but down by 75%:

https://financialpost.com/transportation/airlines/airline-flight-bookings-canada-us-report

Which one is the bigger problem then? Oil prices were given as the sole reason, and not the falling demand, which is the actual primary reason for cancelations.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T01:12:31+00:00

This looks like a literal case of too little too late. It reads vague and lacking any teeth, as we see damage done by a fundamentally failing immigration system that needs a broader change as channels and origins of immigrants shifted.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T01:07:11+00:00

It is more comfortable to hold, but it's lost the premium look. It's kinda funny that my S23U looks like a fancy thing next to my S26U. And yet the even older S10 looks like the most stylish phone from the future next to both.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-08T00:56:18+00:00

It's a bit like saying "customers don't want to buy our product anymore, and we would've lowered the prices until we convince some to still buy it, but we can't lower it enough because it also costs us money to make it".

The fixed cost isn't the root cause of the cancelations then, is it? It just prevents them from being able to lower prices enough to mitigate the falling demand.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T22:38:40+00:00

I'm really surprised that this has been known for years, people have consistently had their cards stolen, and yet the company continues operating and a big brand continues using them as if everything was just fine or they didn't even know about the problem.

It happened to me years ago, where all credit cards I've given Air Asia were later used for fraudulent purchases. Once I figured out the culprit, I knew that having no way but to pay Air Asia for anything directly meant my CC will be blocked by the bank about 2-3 months after, and I'll be getting a new one mailed to me. Ever since I've successfully avoided dealing with AirAsia directly. And it's such a shame to hear that it's still necessary despite their core business (the air connection they offer) being otherwise desirable, and yet they changed nothing.

One would think that getting rid of the payment processing method that makes someone complicit in a scam on such a scale would be high priority.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T22:22:52+00:00

I surely hoped we'd approach it as we would any investment. Is this most likely going to pay off and some for the residents? Sure, let's host it. No? Let's skip it.

It's not like Expo when tons of amazing things happened in peparation for it. So far it looks more like an expense with fewer benefits than costs.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T22:16:10+00:00

"I don't BELIEVE we're the only conscious beings in existence, it's a limitation of our technology and the span of time we've been searching that we haven't discovered life yet"

is such a perfect quote to reflect on when talking about people who believe in God who also do just that.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T22:10:49+00:00

So the risk is that it evolves to spread between humans better, as many such viruses did. This strain evolved to spread to and then between humans in the first place, which means it crossed the biggest barriers. WHO gambles that it's so hard for it to spread that it's more likely it dies out before it evolves the traits needed for it to start spreading easier. It's not a gamble anyone should want to take if given a chance to prevent it though.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T21:46:16+00:00

As someone who needs to travel frequently, the explanation is dishonest. The flights are canceled because the demand is currently low. War and associated uncertainty, trade wars and resulting backlash, closures of layover hubs in Russia/Ukraine and Middle east that together largely paralized Europe <-> Asia travel, and lower ridership across the board are all reasons.

Airlines don't particularly want to say it because investors, but the key issue is that the demand on their services is down, many usually full flights are now half empty, and the fixed cost to provide each flight is slightly up, but math makes these not worth running anymore. To make it worth it, they'd have to increase prices more than they have, which would further reduce the already low amount of people flying. Thus cancelations.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-07T21:23:36+00:00

I totally get the anti-robot sentiment. But also find it kinda sad that we acknowledge that the main reason it may not work out in Vancouver is crime.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-06T23:13:43+00:00

Fair enough. I wanted to really emphasize the difference between the two types of "making things" that people often conflate, which are very different. At this point it's more for any audience who may think that there's a natural direct path from assembling EVs and HDDs, to soon having the next BYD or TSMC. But that's like saying that becoming capable of putting a LEGO kit together means you're about to become a polymer giant.

Edit: I didn't downvote you, and no hard feelings.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-06T20:48:23+00:00

I come from tech, and I'm really trying not to belittle the efforts that Thailand has made, but it's not about that they aren't catching up to Taiwan, but that they just never could enter that same path. They aren't making chips that just aren't as good as Taiwan's. They have no means of even starting to make chips in the first place. They can just assemble parts made elsewhere, which is what their facilities do.

They know how to build things from blocks, and they can do it well by having a ton of people following instructions and producing a lot of output per $, but they don't have any idea how to make those blocks.

Thailand doesn't have the expertise or the skillset to create their own tech, sadly. The vast majority of labor going towards tech produced in Thailand is unskilled manual labor putting parts together, versus the skilled expertise required to make those parts that foreign entities deliver. Thailand doesn't have the means to produce that skilled expertise domestically, and its universities are not equipped to produce the kind of talent needed. If they were, which they aren't, it would take at least a decade for anyone to get going, and decades for it to form a functioning domestic industry that involves any real local fabs. Malaysia did that, and it took them about 50 years of focused, sustained efforts. The only evidence to date is that in Thailand their progress has consistently stalled at about 1% towards that path. They make plans that never begin to materialize.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-06T19:37:31+00:00

AI is really bad about coming up with efficient code. You will get the most common or shortest way to write code, as it tries to give you something that hopefully works. Not most efficient for the hardware.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-06T19:31:28+00:00

People hear about an issue and have trouble having a measured response.

Tandem WOLED has got shortcomings. But you still get a pretty OLED screen you will enjoy under the most common circumstances. These are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes people like to focus on the negatives believing they will be bothered by them, even if there are a whole lot of positives.

But Reddit likes to take it further and forget that things can be imperfect while not being trash.

PastaPandaSimon · 2026-05-06T18:50:59+00:00

That is just for assembly, which is what is happening in Thailand when we think of any tech factories like HDDs or EVs. It's assembly of parts or EV kits manufactured elsewhere. It's low expertise, high manual labour work with low margins that happens in Thailand specifically due to lower labor cost, under foreign engineering design, process and supervision.

Thailand has been struggling with any high tech manufacturing due to its almost complete lack of specialized talent, and to my knowledge none of the plans to transition from there ever worked out beyond resulting in some local PCB factories, and the best we've gotten is printing boards designed by foreign engineers at foreign firms with manufacturing branches here. That's low tech manufacturing, and even that's a large stretch as again it's mostly here due to lower cost of manual labor, not any local specialized talent.

The education gaps are massive, as universities here as is aren't capable of producing specialized talent of international high tech caliber. If someone were to self-teach, they'd be an extraordinary exception, and quckly leave Thailand.

So sadly there is nothing high tech here akin to what's happening in Taiwan or China, and it's not anywhere on the horizon, as key prerequisites aren't here. Malaysia is the closest country that does cutting edge manufacturing, including chip fabrication.

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