This was an interesting watch and brings home the fact that you should just consider what you are needing your screen for. TVs are certainly also getting better, but there is more to it than just HDMI ports, contrast ratios, and response times.

We've long been using our standard (and now pretty old) TV with HDMI ports as our media screen in the lounge, connected to a Linux computer. It works perfectly for that purpose. But we're not playing high-end games on it.

But even for many gamers, MAYBE a TV could work fine. Given the price differences, it may be worth it. As it is, many say that the ultra-high refresh rates (or FPS) we are seeing on the latest monitors are just not good bang for the buck at all. It is unlikely the human eye is even perceiving much difference beyond 144Hz (I did a post about that in June 2023).

It is certainly something worth considering at least.

See https://youtu.be/rdg8tKNZt1s

#technology #monitors

This was an interesting watch and brings home the fact that you should just consider what you are needing your screen for. TVs are certainly also getting better, but there is more to it than just HDMI ports, contrast ratios, and response times.

We've long been using our standard (and now pretty old) TV with HDMI ports as our media screen in the lounge, connected to a Linux computer. It works perfectly for that purpose. But we're not playing high-end games on it.

But even for many gamers, MAYBE a TV could work fine. Given the price differences, it may be worth it. As it is, many say that the ultra-high refresh rates (or FPS) we are seeing on the latest monitors are just not good bang for the buck at all. It is unlikely the human eye is even perceiving much difference beyond 144Hz (I did a post about that in June 2023).

It is certainly something worth considering at least.

See https://youtu.be/rdg8tKNZt1s

#technology #monitors

This was an interesting watch and brings home the fact that you should just consider what you are needing your screen for. TVs are certainly also getting better, but there is more to it than just HDMI ports, contrast ratios, and response times.

We've long been using our standard (and now pretty old) TV with HDMI ports as our media screen in the lounge, connected to a Linux computer. It works perfectly for that purpose. But we're not playing high-end games on it.

But even for many gamers, MAYBE a TV could work fine. Given the price differences, it may be worth it. As it is, many say that the ultra-high refresh rates (or FPS) we are seeing on the latest monitors are just not good bang for the buck at all. It is unlikely the human eye is even perceiving much difference beyond 144Hz (I did a post about that in June 2023).

It is certainly something worth considering at least.

See https://youtu.be/rdg8tKNZt1s

#technology #monitors

Don't try memorising all of these, but rather quickly skim the headings in the linked article to give you an idea of what CAN be done with the Find command. You'll realise, too, that using the command line sometimes, offers way greater power, as well as speed.

Find does not only find a file name matching a pattern, but can also be useful to find all files modified in the last 60 minutes, that have executable permissions, that belong to the root user, that are empty files, that were accessed in the last hour, that are larger than a specified size, and lots more.

The find command is an advanced tool for searching files or directories rigorously in your file system, taking a little longer time than its alternative tools like the locate command. It’s due to its nature of searching a specified file by walking through each file for a match in your system, instead of creating a database where all the file paths are indexed.

See https://linuxtldr.com/find-command/

#technology #Linux #Find #opensource

Don't try memorising all of these, but rather quickly skim the headings in the linked article to give you an idea of what CAN be done with the Find command. You'll realise, too, that using the command line sometimes, offers way greater power, as well as speed.

Find does not only find a file name matching a pattern, but can also be useful to find all files modified in the last 60 minutes, that have executable permissions, that belong to the root user, that are empty files, that were accessed in the last hour, that are larger than a specified size, and lots more.

The find command is an advanced tool for searching files or directories rigorously in your file system, taking a little longer time than its alternative tools like the locate command. It’s due to its nature of searching a specified file by walking through each file for a match in your system, instead of creating a database where all the file paths are indexed.

See https://linuxtldr.com/find-command/

#technology #Linux #Find #opensource

Don't try memorising all of these, but rather quickly skim the headings in the linked article to give you an idea of what CAN be done with the Find command. You'll realise, too, that using the command line sometimes, offers way greater power, as well as speed.

Find does not only find a file name matching a pattern, but can also be useful to find all files modified in the last 60 minutes, that have executable permissions, that belong to the root user, that are empty files, that were accessed in the last hour, that are larger than a specified size, and lots more.

The find command is an advanced tool for searching files or directories rigorously in your file system, taking a little longer time than its alternative tools like the locate command. It’s due to its nature of searching a specified file by walking through each file for a match in your system, instead of creating a database where all the file paths are indexed.

See https://linuxtldr.com/find-command/

#technology #Linux #Find #opensource

They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed back to Google and generally improve security and privacy.

I know Firefox (and Tor and derivatives) do achieve the latter, but they mostly do not achieve the fastest performance, and sometimes websites don't work well for them (not Firefox's fault, but the website devs who are not designing to be compatible with open web standards).

They have also created a number of their own Chrome extensions, which seem quite unique.

See https://thorium.rocks/

#technology #browsers #opensource

They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed back to Google and generally improve security and privacy.

I know Firefox (and Tor and derivatives) do achieve the latter, but they mostly do not achieve the fastest performance, and sometimes websites don't work well for them (not Firefox's fault, but the website devs who are not designing to be compatible with open web standards).

They have also created a number of their own Chrome extensions, which seem quite unique.

See https://thorium.rocks/

#technology #browsers #opensource

They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed back to Google and generally improve security and privacy.

I know Firefox (and Tor and derivatives) do achieve the latter, but they mostly do not achieve the fastest performance, and sometimes websites don't work well for them (not Firefox's fault, but the website devs who are not designing to be compatible with open web standards).

They have also created a number of their own Chrome extensions, which seem quite unique.

See https://thorium.rocks/

#technology #browsers #opensource