I bought one, then returned it the following day. I cannot comprehend how LG is shipping these monitors and people are buying them. The matte finish on the screen is very bad. So bad that you see colorful grains (maybe 0.05-0.1mm each) all over the screen. Particularly noticeable on light content. I had seen some people complaining about it online, but never would’ve imagine that this was the actual issue and it’s still mind boggling that they are producing and shipping these monitors.

Beautifully written. Thank you for this.

For anyone interested in this kind of stuff with a music oriented gist, a while ago I found this awesome YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0/

I couldn’t see the whole link on my phone but I knew it would be Moritz Klein.

Would love to know what kind of noise and sound level was used for this test. Was it a continuous monotonous noise (such as white/pink/brown noise) at a fixed volume? Or was it some random noise that would "pop-up" randomly?

Does anyone know?

I would imagine that a noise that would randomly "pop-up" would be worse. But would be curious if that's not the case.

That's also what I was wondering- I sleep with a fan on for the white noise, otherwise I sleep very poorly if at all. I wonder if that sort of 'covers up' the spikes in noise you'd be hearing if the room were otherwise silent

This was ambient noise in the room, as measured by an Apple Watch. So “random,” real world noises that pop up, as opposed to a controlled level of white noise.

+1 also thought about this.

Something like the variability of noise (eg, maybe figure out the 25th percentile dbs across the night, and then count the spikes above that? or maybe count the number of times the slope goes above a certain value indicating sharp rises in volume that would disturb someone?)

I also would love to simply see the data based on the average of "N loudest moment(s)" during the sleep. eg: treat the dbs score for that night as the average of the N loudest moments over the night, and plot a series of graphs that show various values of N. (or make it 3d, but i've found many folks are not capable of reading those kinds of graphs)

Does anyone know if they are available and where the used audio could be downloaded? Would love to understand how much compression they put in the audio vs the original.

That is in fact what Musk is trying to do. The "everything app"

as soon as someone frames ISP peering as border crossing we'll have a Great Firewall too.

Interestingly almost everything VW will reintroduce is already physical on Tesla, no? The only thing with no physical buttons on Tesla are the temperature and fans. Or am I missing something?

> Interestingly almost everything VW will reintroduce is already physical on Tesla, no? The only thing with no physical buttons on Tesla are the temperature and fans. Or am I missing something?

The steering wheel on modern Tesla's has those godawful turn buttons instead of a proper indicator stalk.

Fine for (most of) the US market but wildly impractical for anywhere you need to use the turn signals mid turn. Anywhere the road system uses roundabouts for instance.

To some extent this is just US parochialism leaking out into the rest of the world, but it's typical of Musk style design to not really think through the reasons for existing design choices.

"Traditional" auto controls have been refined by over a century of trial and error and real world testing.

It takes a special combination of hubris and immaturity to just cast much of that aside without very careful and thorough consideration. The results of doing so speak for themselves.

> The steering wheel on modern Tesla's has those godawful turn buttons instead of a proper indicator stalk.

They now reverted that back in the Model Y refresh. Just the indicator stalk (the rest are still gone)

The Model Y never had buttons for turning.

I've never said or implied that. But all the last refreshes prior to the MY one had all the stalks removed.

Not having tactile feedback on turn indicators by stock is absurd imho

> The steering wheel on modern Tesla's has those godawful turn buttons instead of a proper indicator stalk.

I've driven one with an indicator stalk.

> Fine for (most of) the US market but wildly impractical for anywhere you need to use the turn signals mid turn. Anywhere the road system uses roundabouts for instance.

... but it was "smart" and didn't physically move and it was useless except for 90 degree turns. I call this the "designed in California" disease.

Incidentally, we should be glad Apple abandoned their car plans too.

> I've driven one with an indicator stalk.

Yes. Teslas used to have a proper indicator stick.

The one i tried couldn't be called 'proper' though.

Model Y still has an indicator stalk.

Is this a serious comment? Bird flu is happening right now in EU.

It’s not, bird flu has also been detected 1-2 days ago in Portugal near where I live.

This is really weird. It's something I feel as an adult when I consume too many sugary things. Could it be related to something else in those sugary things (candy, sodas, ..) instead of sugar? That'd be interesting to find out.