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Best monitors to buy right now (RTINGS)

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Yes, but the 4090 is the "best" GPU with only minor trade-offs (DP 2.1 support?)

Monitors don't yet have an ultimate "highest res, refresh, brightness, contrast, color volume" champion. If they made a 240Hz 4K QD-OLED it would come close, but it wouldn't be as bright as the best Mini-LEDs, have burn-in, weird pixel positioning (but at 4K you can just use monochromatic AA for text)

The ultimate monitor might have to be Nano-LED, with self-emissive quantum dots. But we won't see those until at least 2025, or maybe even later

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Best monitors to buy right now (RTINGS)

I don't get what a "best monitor" is supposed to be. They have six different categories themselves, and there's also pricing. The "best" they listed sucks at HDR gaming and costs $550. In my opinion, if you're going to have a "best" category it's gotta be the Samsung 240Hz 4K monitor, but they mentioned issues with it

So currently, there's no "best" monitor. They all have trade-offs.

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It's not as hard as you think, since you can just copy some other package for a skeleton and substitute your own files. There are just a few files to do a basic package

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Thousands of Chinese tourists go there for a very strictly controlled vacation every year. As long as they think you're not a threat it's much safer than going to a place with literal warfare going on

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What distro(s) do you use?

I am switching everything I own to NixOS. Part of the reason is I can use my configuration on different computers and have everything set up the way I want. But I can also have separate config files for the parts that are different.

The killer feature is whenever I fuck things up I just roll back, and I always have the config files in version control so I can always work on the changes that didn't work later and make it work.