Looks great! I wonder if this could be used to create some kind of podcast-based sponsorblock equivalent? I know there are issues with podcast- (providers) inserting sponsor reads and ads at random / unknown times, so, not sure how it could be done reliably.

Racist, misogynist, xenophobic, bigoted, made-up story about a company hiring women+minorities into dedicated departments which then don’t do any work

They must have a lot of departments full of white, straight men to compensate, otherwise the company would surely go under. /s

edit: before anyone thinks I actually meant this seriously…I was reacting to a ridiculously bigoted comment by some troll (I know…I shouldn’t have reacted) claiming their company had entire departments full of women+minorities not doing any work. The comment no longer exists of course. I

This is utterly fascinating. Thank you for providing this link. Funnily enough, my thoughts immediately went to “is Milgram any better?”. Seems like he might be, somewhat. The question for me then becomes:

• can people be trusted with authority, on a general level? Are there studies to prove / disprove the adage that power corrupts / that people with personality disorders such as psychopathy or narcissism seek out (or thrive in, or are promoted to) positions of power?

Thank you again, I shall revise my opinion from now on and seek out more studies on the matter.

What I find interesting is that reigning in abuse at the behest of bosses / management / leadership would solve a gigantic number of problems in today’s society. ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’ is actually ‘nobody wants to be treated like shit by power-hungry psychopaths’. BUT, it is so difficult / impossible to change the intrinsic human assholification of anyone with power (see Stanford prison experiment), that companies will try anything else.

Their* name…

Yup, you’re right, I’ve had OLED TVs in my sight for quite a while. They seem to be ridiculously cheap compared to OLED monitors. Seems like you could get a lot of bang for your buck there. And cheaper OLEDs also mitigate for the burn-in issue somewhat, as you could just buy a new one if it ever becomes unbearable. How have you found things like text rendering to work on the OLED TV?

Normally I like buying things second hand as well. That way I can buy second-hand, sell my things to make up for the cost, too. With OLED, second-hand feels risky, due to burn-in again.

I had thought about using the OLED monitor just for games, but I can’t exactly justify dropping £1k on something I’m only using for games lol

Monitors are an exciting place of development. They make such a huge difference when upgraded. The jumps between TN -> IPS -> OLED are crazy and completely change the experience. Almost nothing else makes such a big difference. Maybe HDD -> SSD was similar.

This is an interesting proposition while holding out for OLED monitors (still too worried about burn-in). So instead of going low-brightness and infinite contrast (OLED), you can go high-brightness (HDR1000 mini-led), yes with blooming around your cursor, but for gaming / media consumption it could be pretty good. Especially at that price. Though I suspect $500 translates to £700 lol…

Honestly, if I look at the state of things in the GPU segment particularly, I feel that the thing people will care about the most will be price / performance.

Nvidia is trying to sell people on hardware that had barely improved on previous generations by introducing things like dlss3 (frame generation at the cost of latency) but honestly, if a used 3080 can keep up with a brand new 4070 for less money, why on earth would I get the latest generation?

Seems wild. I am hoping for Intel and AMD to present some serious competition. I wonder whether Nvidia no longer cares about gamers and instead thinks AI / Datacenter applications are where the real profit is to be gained.

This is crazy stuff. I wish there was a documentary made about these people, who seemingly lack any sense of self preservation :D