Your old phone is still better than half the smart displays people keep buying
… All specs that dwarf the hardware inside a brand new Echo Show or Google Nest Hub. Dedicated smart displays are budget tablets in speakers' clothing. …
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Your desktop monitor needs a brightness slider, and PowerToys has the fix Windows should have shipped
… Even with all my apps and web pages in dark mode, I need to reduce the brightness on the displays I use. On both my desktop PC and laptop, my displays are set to the minimum brightness. …
A tiny 5-inch USB screen fixed my desk clutter better than any ultrawide could
… When picking the hardware itself, it doesn't always have to be a brand-new screen that you've picked up from Amazon. …
I built a 10-inch ePaper dashboard for my 3D printer, and it's the best display I've ever used
… Sign in to your XDA account I've tried a lot of Home Assistant dashboards, between tablets propped up on stands, old Android phones, cheap ESP32 displays, and more. Yet my favorites have always been the ePaper displays I've got to try, as those other options all have one thing in common: screens. …
3 reasons your monitor upgrade matters a lot more than your next GPU upgrade
… The fact that you need to spend nearly half the price of a new GPU on a new monitor OLED or not makes the comparison between the two upgrades more interesting. Most gamers still use 1080p or 1440p IPS displays, so the upgrade to an OLED display 1440p or 4K will be huge. …
Nvidia's RTX HDR does more for my old games than DLSS ever will
… Nvidia's RTX HDR isn't really a standalone, new HDR format. It's an AI-enhanced SDR-to-HDR tone mapping technology that converts non-HDR games into HDR on displays that support it. …
I tried Anthropic's open-source desk pet on an ESP32, and it fixes the most annoying thing about Claude
… You can use it by going into Help, then enable Developer Mode, and in the new developer menu bar item, open the Hardware Buddy window. Underneath, it's simple. The desktop app advertises a Nordic UART Service and streams newline-delimited JSON over it. …
Someone built a four-node Raspberry Pi cluster you can pick up with one hand
… The display runs a custom dashboard showing live system stats and the tinted acrylic panels keep the hardware visible while helping the build look a bit more polished than a usual stack of boards and cables. Klements then rounded off the post, mulling over what he plans to do with all this hardware. …
Your gaming monitor's refresh rate matters less than these 4 features
… However, they have mostly superseded IPS and VA displays in every other department. Even the inferior brightness problem has been solved with 4th-gen tandem OLED displays . And newer subpixel layouts have improved text clarity a lot over the years. …
My motherboard's debug LED saved me hours of troubleshooting once I learned how to use it
… You can have POST code displays, too These provide a little more context than debug LEDs Standard debug LEDs are helpful in pinpointing the problematic component, but they leave the exact nature of failure for you to figure out. For more context, POST code displays are invaluable. …