alt Hacker NewsYeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last.
You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care.
Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for the alert is a strange self-defeating protest next to the explanation that it was a pretty expensive monitor.
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My MSI monitor does it, I don't object to it in principle. What I do object to is a tool, that I own, demanding this is done on its own schedule rather than mine in a way I can't always dismiss. There's no reason it shouldn't be configurable to do it at three in the morning rather than when I'm trying to run the standup for example.
Definitely will be checking more carefully the next time I buy an OLED monitor that it'll let me do this.
> Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last.
Brand new models still have this popup... what "generation" are you talking about that doesn't need this? Or is it just unnecessary on the newer models but they have it any ways due to lack of firmware updates?
How is it strange that among the 900,000 1-minute tasks you need to complete on a given day, this one is low on the list?
Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
And yet, they own the device. If they choose to not care about burn-in and want their device to respect that, that's their prerogative, not anyone else's.
I understand what it does, I think the alert is annoying. It takes at least five minutes and automatically runs when the monitor is off. I’ve had it for a few years and have no burn in issues despite not doing this every eight hours on command.