Does this mean better motion response times? The M-series MacBook Pro displays have notoriously smeary displays while displaying high-motion content, so this would be a welcome addition.
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It seems like a very specific thing for a reporter to ask and find out about.
Edit: Nevermind, same tweet seems to have been quoted across a bunch of different other news sites. Apparently Blur Busters claims an improvement, I'll try it out and see how it is in some other contexts.
If setting it up yourself is too much work, you can use other public instances. One such instance is called xcancel. Load the Xeet as normal, then simply append "cancel" to the domain name before the period in your URL bar and hit enter :)
If you know what you're looking for in those, you can identify a lot of different phosphor configurations just by the particular shape of the RGB peaks - the older ones have a distinctive multi-peaked red emission that I've seen in various LED bulbs as well over the years.
I doubt Apple mentioned it to anyone. Applying a spectrometer to any new light emitting device is just the sort of thing some people enjoy doing.
So there's both a supply of people eager to pick their products apart and a market of people eager to hear about all the little details and secrets.
While Apple probably does seed some stories intentionally, as their PR teams are sharp, they don't need to be doing so for swarms of these reports to pop up after announcements and first shipments.
They're officially just called "Posts" now. It's a hell of a downgrade from how distinctive the old terms were, no wonder people still call them Tweets.
Community Notes was also set to be called Birdwatch originally, continuing the bird pun theme.
I just set up a 4K terminal (542x143 chars) using the 'homebrew' theme (green on semi-transparent black) and did
prompt% ls -larS RemoteAstrophotography_com-M63-Stellina.zip | awk '{print $5}'
4514072533
prompt% cat RemoteAstrophotography_com-M51-Stellina.zip| base64
... and it is happily scrolling up the screen, lightning fast, way way too fast to read, and responding instantly to CTRL-Q/S. Seems ok to me.
Is there vision tests similar to audio tests where they figure out one's individual responses to different wavelengths of light? Super neat.
It would be cool to simulate different people's vision, not just colour-blindness but the more subtle variations.
OLED has been better in every way except longevity since 2018.
6 years later I’m not buying a piece of garbage LCD for $6k
Also, from my limited experience with a single OLED screen, it seems that most stuff was created for a certain kind of screen without as much colour fidelity, and now that stuff seems far more...obnoxiously "saturated"?...on an OLED screen.
Unlike consumer audio equipment where you can easily do a frequency sweep to test hearing, you'd need a specialist light source to do the same. Something like a tunable laser. You could probably use a prism to do a similar sweep from a white light source.
A separate problem is that I don't think there is a standard way for monitors to communicate the subpixel layout in such a way the font rendering engine will have access to it. That seems like a pretty big oversight when introducing these in the first place.
If there are any problems, it’ll probably be with cross platform software that doesn't use native text rendering and assumes RGB subpixel arrangements instead of obeying the system.
I remember that was the case with ssds some time ago - some of the macbooks had a better one, some had a slightly worse one.
This setup is straightforward to adjust to different types of color vision too. They use 3 lights because that's how many opsins normal humans use for color vision. If you're testing di- or tetrachromats you can use 2 or 4 lights respectively, or 12 if you're testing intelligent mantis shrimp.
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/PronouncingNahuat...
This has gotten much, much better, especially with "tandem OLED" where you just stack two of 'em on top of each other. It should be fine these days.
> Also, from my limited experience with a single OLED screen, it seems that most stuff was created for a certain kind of screen without as much colour fidelity, and now that stuff seems far more...obnoxiously "saturated"?...on an OLED screen.
That's up to the display manufacturer to calibrate the screen. The content should just be what it is and specify its colorspace properly. (Note, "properly" depends on the environment around you, so if you really care about this you have to participate too.)
For those following outdoor sports tech, I wonder if this might be the secret sauce that allowed Garmin to abandon transflective screens in the Edge 1050, which unlike their post-transflective watches is still technically an LCD. (the not secret at all meat of the change is a depressingly massive battery and big loss in runtime, but I suspect that the battery alone isn't enough to explain that the loss isn't even bigger)
When a display is actually able to put out the colours it then looks gaudily oversaturated. I've had such problems already with non-OLED "somewhat† calibrated" good quality screens as well.
† I mean I did not calibrate them, they were factory calibrated with a good enough test curve slip in the package.
Wouldn’t that be the cheer-cheer-cheeriest place in all the world?
Where the rivers’ made of quantum and the mountaintops are fizz
With fun and games and rides for all the moms and pops and kids!
P.S. I have no idea what quantum or any of their terms mean. This is the closest that comes to my mind. Great marketing, I guess, or not.
Pixel aperture ratio has increased drastically since the early displays. This drops current density for a given amount of light output, and there's a nonlinear relationship between current density and segregation so that helps a ton.
Deuterium helps make more light per unit current, improves current density, improves lifetime.
Microlensing of your customers will accept narrower viewing angle, improves brightness and lifetime in the same way.
I’m not sure how Twitter ultimately blocked them. It would be pretty embarassing (for Twitter) if it were a simple IP block of the Nitter.net servers, but that doesn’t seem too out of whack with Musk’s history of litigating bot behavior…
I suggest not making any effort to use the site - rather just ask people to primarily share content from X by copying rather than linking. This removes the need to interact with it both for yourself and (more importantly) for others.