I like NixOS

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Born in 2004, I barely used the internet as a kid. Most my video games were off of CDs, and I occasionally got to use my dad’s Steam account. In like 4th grade I played some Wizards101, League of Legends, and some flash games, and started watching Minecraft youtubers. Besides that I mostly used the internet to download Minecraft mods. I kinda eased into the internet that way so I never really was surprised at having so much accessible to me.

    I didn’t get on social media until I got on Reddit in high school. I tried Tumblr a bit but didn’t like it since it was too different. I still don’t use Twitter or anything, just Reddit and Lemmy and occasionally Pinterest.







  • Yeah, it probably looks quite a lot better. This one doesn’t look great in dark scenes, and I can see how per-pixel dimming would be a big improvement even in brighter scenes. But this one looks a lot better than my old TN monitor at least, and I just did not want to worry about burn-in or brightness degradation. I’m also a CS student so I do a decent bit of programming, and I got it for a crazy deal from Best Buy for $550, while the Alienware looks to be around $1000.

    In terms of brightness, I used to run my old monitor at the lowest possible, but now I kinda wish this one could get even brighter than it is lol.

    Now that I’ve gotten a taste of true HDR though, I can see how an oled would fix quite a few issues with this one. Thinking about it now I think I might rather have a 1440p oled than this 4k MiniLED, HDR just makes that big of an impact. Although most of the time this one looks pretty good. I was just hoping this would last me a while until MicroLED or something actually came out.



  • I have an Acer XV275K P3, a Mini-LED 4k 160hz monitor, and I’d say it looks pretty good. If games have FSR 2, like Baldur’s Gate 3, then I can run them at 1080p and they still look pretty nice.

    There is a noticeable difference between running 1440p and 4k, but I’m not sure how that compares to native 1440p since I’ve never had one. It doesn’t look terrible I’d say. I only have an RX 7600 so on games like Doom Eternal I play at 1080p which still looks pretty good. Forza Horizon 5 looks and runs great at 4k though.

    I’d say honestly going to a good HDR monitor is a bigger difference than running games at higher resolutions. It looks really nice, mine is MiniLED not an oled, so dark scenes can look weird sometimes (mainly in movies, not games), but the benefit is it can get really bright. And the colors are incredible. HDR doesn’t have any performance impact as well, and SDR content will also look better simply because you have a nice monitor.