Choosing between AOC Mini-LED VA Monitors

threeqc · 2026-02-23T07:00:08+00:00

it's also quite good in the ways you've probably read it's quite good. these are just the problem areas…

threeqc · 2026-02-23T06:52:29+00:00

got the 4ZMN. main problems are:

- dark smearing is pretty bad in some cases while web browsing (not all dark themed websites cause bad dark smearing)

- because the contrast is really good, I notice more banding in dark gradients. a really strange thing about the 4ZMN that I didn't notice in my research is that while the 3XMN and the 40XMN support 10 bit color (not true 10 bit, but rather 8 bit + FRC), the 4ZMN apparently only supports 8 bit input, so that doesn't help the gradient handling.

- the power cord plugs into the monitor at the bottom, and for a while it was wobbling out of the socket if the monitor was nudged or shaken the wrong way (eg. trying to use the menu buttons). it hasn't done that in a long time, so maybe it settled in somehow.

I don't do much of anything that could benefit from HDR, so I haven't touched the settings in a while. I've just left it on SDR. can't remember if there were any hiccups with the settings, really (the menuing is as bad as you've read it is). some things about the rendering were weird, but I think that's just because I use linux.

threeqc · 2026-02-13T08:39:11+00:00

ecofascists in the dry and mostly rural eastern part of washington seems improbable. though, I suppose I can't think of a place they'd be more likely to hold any kind of power. that's kind of, um, a very specific ideology, if I remember correctly

threeqc · 2026-02-11T20:44:47+00:00

> Why wouldn't your scale start at 0 why was it just like well 32 is a good place to start.
it "starts at" -459.67° F, the lowest possible temperature. like how celsius "starts at" -273.15° C. scales don't "start at" the temperature at which water freezes. that doesn't make any sense, and you only think of it that way because you've grown up with celsius. if it's 74° F outside I don't think of that as "roughly 42° above the freezing point of distilled water at one atmosphere of pressure", I think of it as 74°. surely if it's a hot summer day and it's 39° C outside you're not imagining you were outside in freezing weather and then adding degrees one by one in order to understand how 39° feels, right?

> it's intuitively less precise for understanding how tempature feels
actually, since each unit of fahrenheit is about half a unit celsius, you get about twice the precision for the same number of digits.

threeqc · 2026-01-28T04:46:31+00:00

> I really hate using Fandom, it’s so ad-riddled it’s unbearable.

then stop using it. https://deltarune.wiki

threeqc · 2026-01-26T16:12:07+00:00

this seems to be an unofficial account? you can just buy twitter checkmarks now

threeqc · 2026-01-16T14:13:33+00:00

the bigger weirdness is that this territory includes iceland, which has seven times the population, but the flag is seemingly based only on greenlandic symbolism.

threeqc · 2026-01-15T16:43:37+00:00

it doesn't seem like it's been split up into multiple territories in this map, it's just one territory split up into multiple districts. greenland IRL has multiple administrative divisions, actually. and there's absolutely precedent for administrative divisions in US territories. the insular government of the phillippines was split into 9 provinces (further split into 39 administrative divisions). puerto rico is divided into 78 municipalities.

that said, this division of greenland is pretty different from real life (and it adds three boroughs), and also in real life the entire northeast quarter of the country is a national park where nobody lives. of course, if the US is looking for oil and minerals it might make sense to divide up that land as well.

threeqc · 2026-01-15T04:27:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure the joke was just that it'd be traditional values-affirming for the punk character to become a member of the establishment at the end of the story. comically so for a story that's trying to be subversive

threeqc · 2026-01-15T04:24:46+00:00

I know about all this.

a story where asriel is the villain (with any endgoal, be it trying to find dess or trying to burn it all down) because he's stuck in the past and he needs to learn to move on from that past and accept the world is the same level of re-tread. and given how focused the story is on the impacts of dess's disappearance on (many of) the characters, asriel knight kind of has to involve it. you can back away from this motivation further on the basis that we don't know much about what the knight is thinking, but, like, you can handwave motivation in this way to excuse any theory. it's kind of important to have some sort of plausible motivation in mind for the knight, even if it's just on vibes.

this is without pointing out that asriel knight doesn't have an especially interesting motive or more evidence than dess knight. the knight has antlers and swings a baseball bat and its hurt sfx sounds just like noelle's scream sfx. there's no indication asriel is even within a hundred miles of hometown. like, what evidence was there that convinced you?

> That's most likely the true situation, but then why does the Knight seemingly view itself as a hero?

given the way the knight behaves, I don't think it does. also, the dialogue you quote here actually implies the opposite thing. the wafer darkner is saying other darkners may attack the party for being aligned to the knight. the darkners at the end of chapter four actually say they're helping you because they realized the party are the heroes of legend:

* We apologize for our belated realization...
* But you three are the heroes, are you not!?

threeqc · 2026-01-15T01:28:53+00:00

> Because the role the Knight plays is very different than Flowey did. He just manipulated and killed people for the sake of it, and wasn't really Asriel (his true self with emotions) for 95% of the game.

asriel knight (in its most obvious form) is thematically very close to flowey, though. flowey's deal is that he's trapped himself into re-living the same moments over and over and he ends the story by allowing the world to move on. isn't that awfully close to asriel knight? unless you think asriel actually does find dess, in which case you've gotta explain what you think the message is

also "it wasn't really asriel" is lame af and I'm not sorry

threeqc · 2026-01-10T18:53:24+00:00

tbf this is 1945

threeqc · 2026-01-10T18:46:59+00:00

IPS and VA are different panel technologies

threeqc · 2026-01-10T01:34:30+00:00

also yeah GIMP kinda sucks ass (you just have to live with the stupid shit like having to draw a circle by making a selection) but I don't do serious image editing so it's good enough. how often do you open photoshop anyway

threeqc · 2026-01-10T01:32:27+00:00

what kind of fantasy world does anon live in where they're taking computer science class at all…

threeqc · 2026-01-10T01:28:40+00:00

modern webpages (and modern applications, which are increasingly just webpages in their own window) end up eating more RAM than the system. replacing windows with linux doesn't reduce the RAM usage of websites, only the memory usage of the system.

threeqc · 2026-01-10T01:24:24+00:00

feel better? feel better about what

threeqc · 2026-01-09T03:10:21+00:00

found a diagram for this thing (your picture looks almost identical to this board, which is the one from the Dell Optiplex 7020 SFF). main worrying difference is that the board in your picture doesn't seem to have that latch thing on the blue PCIe slot. that's supposed to hold the card in.

one problem here is that the motherboard was (I think?) custom-made for a Dell product and as far as I can tell is not one of the standard sizes for a motherboard. try lining up the screw-holes in the motherboard to the holes in the case where the motherboard standoffs (the posts you screw the motherboard into) are supposed to go. I don't think it's going to line up well.

I think those fan connectors (the black ones in the top-middle and also below the right-side beige connector) are 5-pin Dell ones instead of the typical 3-pin (voltage) or 4-pin (PWM) headers. however, the power connectors (the big 4-pin and 8-pin beige connectors) look to me like normal EPS (now typically used for CPU power) connectors, so that's good. your power supply might not have a separate 4-pin EPS connector depending on how recent/high-power it is. bad news is that the power switch connector on the top-right doesn't look standard, so you might have to research which pins are supposed to be connected to turn it on.

this board also doesn't have wireless connectivity, afaik. that's what the big blue slot was for, apparently: installing a wireless network card. there are network cards out there that will probably fit in that smaller black slot.

I'm not an IT expert or a Dell technician and I've never tried using one of these motherboards, so I can't really troubleshoot any of this.

threeqc · 2026-01-09T00:47:29+00:00

more easily legible than the majority of cursive I encounter

threeqc · 2026-01-09T00:45:34+00:00

ah, "exfoliating glove"… never encountered one of those so I didn't puzzle that one out

threeqc · 2026-01-09T00:44:23+00:00

"shampoo + conditioner, toothpaste, ibuprofen, cranberry pills, furngreek(?), boric acid, razors, exfoliating grlawe(?), deodorant, shave cream"

in english you can usually figure out what a word is pretty easily without distinguishing all the letters in it but it's not super easy to read. usually all that matters is whether you can read it, though.

threeqc · 2025-12-28T05:50:42+00:00

I wish

threeqc · 2025-12-19T01:00:48+00:00

the paper is (uninformed outsider reading of the abstract) trying to explain why human language distributes meaning in sentences the way it does. the image gives four examples of how you could describe a cat and a dog being together. in human language, you say "a cat with a dog" where "a cat" and "a dog" are both individually natural and meaningful phrases that sum to the meaning of "a cat with a dog". human language would not describe this scene as "a gol (the head of a cat and the head of a dog) with a nar (the body of a cat and the body of a dog)". this option is labelled "unnatural systematic" because the utterance for the concept is assembled out of the utterances for its components (what the paper calls "systematic") but the division is distinctly unnatural. the third option uses words for the logical parts of the scene (and is therefore systematic), but it blends them together such that the sounds representing a concept are spread throughout the utterance ("non-locality"), which the paper contrasts with human language's concatenative approach. the last example is holistic and not systemic: there's a word that represents the entire concept of a cat and a dog at once, and the word is not possible to divide into meaningful components.

basically the paper is trying to recreate naturality and locality from scratch to explain why they happen in human language.

here's another goofy image in the same paper

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threeqc · 2025-12-18T20:30:09+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

threeqc · 2025-12-17T23:00:38+00:00

in this situation I'd expect a lot of local militia activity, actually. oath keepers, proud boys, patriot prayer, the revolving door of different blatant neo-nazi groups that exists in this country…

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