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Off Topic / Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Last post by phinix on Fri, 17 May 2024, 09:13:05 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 17 May 2024, 08:20:32
Quote from: phinix on Thu, 16 May 2024, 18:33:56
I do around 1.1:1 water to sushi rice ratio.

There's no correct amount, you add a bit more or less depending on texture preference, cooking time, evaporation, humidity, type of rice, moisture lvl of rice (age/condition of rice).

Cool, so tp, help me with this one - this is sushi rice - cooked in those proportions, rinse like 15 times till water is not misty anymore, then keep it for 20 minutes in cold water, then bring to boil under lid, low simmering for 15 minutes, then gas off, keep under lid for next 15 minutes, then take out. Basically those steps are taken from the rice box instructions.
Rice comes always so freaking sticky that it very hard to spread over nori. It pisses me off, tried different cooking timings, diff amount of water etc
I know obviously sushi rice is supposed to be sticky, but when I wtch people on YT doing sushi, it is not that bad. I even tried different rice brands.
I use wet hands to spread, but they would need to be seriously wet to avoid rice to stick, which is bad as I then transfer water to nori, that gets soggy and everything goes to bin...

Sometimes I think I should just get a rice cooker...
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Off Topic / QD-OLED 3 Month review
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 17 May 2024, 09:11:38 »
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Wide viewing angles.
QD-Oled has no polarizer and is emissive, this means it has no off axis, gamma shift, tinting (chroma drift).
 - This is useful in that one can sit very close to the TV for immersiveness, and the edges are the same color/ brightness
 - On LCD the edges drift as the backlight leaks diagonally across the pixel pane, this causes the color to washout, become hazy, IPS included.
 - The larger the color drift, the more the eye perceives a shimmer, as the left and right eye receive different color information.
 - On LG's WOLED, there's a tint off axis due to its polarizer, but it gains better black performance in lit rooms as a trade off. The tint is slight enough such that you wouldn't notice unless pointed out.
 - Tint is much worse on LCDs.

Fast pixel transition.
A 144hz oled has the same motion clarity as a 220hz non-strobed lcd. There is still persistence blur due frame hold times, so peak to peak tech comparison, it's not as clear as STROBED-Lcds or CRTs, both of which can reach <1 ms persistence. 360hz/500hz oled are very close to perfect, Strobed LCD will still beat it, but it's becoming impractical to generate that many FPS from the content side.

Oled Black level.
 - It's not infinity : 1 contrast.
 - The pixels need dithering to initiate low value inputs, so if you wanted to light up a single RGB 1:1:1 pixel, the screen has to initiate a 50pixel wide dithering patch. Very close to black, each pixel has a forward voltage, this will overshoot or undershoot the target, so you need dithering. In real movies/ images there is noise, other than black bars, there are very few completely "black" spaces that are noise free. This means that within black patch there is almost 0 probability of 0,0,0 pixels being rendered. The effective contrast ratio is therefore not infinity:1. 
 - In real content, Oled's contrast ratio is ~10,000:1 in SDR @100nits, 100,000:1 in HDR 1000nits.
 - Yea, that's more than you realistically need, since the human eye has a ~1000:1 static contrast.
 - So the contrast is very good, but not as advertised. Same goes for LG's WOLED.


Sensitivity to Heat
- Back in the days of CCFlourescent backlighting  LCDs, before LED backlighting, temperature would cause a color / hue drift. LEDs made it alot more stable, not 100%, but much better.

- Sad to report, well the problem's back with oleds.  The response of the pixels change pretty radically with 5-10 degrees difference in ambient temperature. You can measure the display in +/- 0.15 gamma up and down across big temp swings. So, if you wanted gamma 2.2, colder you get 2.35, warmer you get 2.05
- Not enough to affect general use, but yea, now you know.
- It's fine if you are always air conditioned.

Gamut
- QD's claim to fame is purer RGB primaries, which result in the largest gamut short of laser.
- This is delivered as promised, Although weaknesses in Software leads to less than perfect implementation.


Samsung's S90C software
- Software is challenging for enthusiasts because it has un-defeatable tone-mapping/ contrast / ABL even in film-maker mode.
- LOTS of bugs.
- Auto gamut detection is broken, thankfully, this function isn't really necessary 99% of the time, but it's something to be aware of.
- Game mode gamut problems (magenta)
- General Menu system is efficiently laid out. Quick access to most used settings are well plotted.

Power Use
OMG do large Oleds use alot of power. It's insane. Switch to darkmode on all UI-s unless you just want to burn money.
A 122nit white screen is 170 watts. The electronics inside is ~60 watts, the 110watts is just the panel.
At max, the Oled pulls 340 ish watt total sustained for a 200nit whitescreen, of course it can hit that in HDR as well with half the screen.
The Room gets very hot.
Gaming PC, 7900xtx, You've effectively got a 600-750 watt heater, in the middle of summer.

LCDs are much more power efficient at equal-and-higher brightnesses.
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Group Buys and Preorders / Re: [GB] KAMistry - GB extended through November 25th
« Last post by twitchytheinsideman on Fri, 17 May 2024, 09:00:55 »
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Off Topic / Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Last post by tp4tissue on Fri, 17 May 2024, 08:20:32 »
Quote from: phinix on Thu, 16 May 2024, 18:33:56
I do around 1.1:1 water to sushi rice ratio.

There's no correct amount, you add a bit more or less depending on texture preference, cooking time, evaporation, humidity, type of rice, moisture lvl of rice (age/condition of rice).
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Making Stuff Together! / Re: TMK IBM PC Keyboard Converter
« Last post by wjrii on Fri, 17 May 2024, 08:19:53 »
Quote from: Wingklip on Wed, 15 May 2024, 00:29:53
Pullup is a 1K measuring 0.995k, I have added another resistor in series each but it doesn't make any difference 🤔

5576 Plate Spring by Ricoh, not exactly sure which 002 or 001

I've been testing on a normal keyboard.

There is no HID-Listen output at all, it's not even finding the device 0.0

Apologies if this is a stupid suggestion, but did you use the same software to flash the PS/2 firmware as you did the ADB?  I only ask because I recently assembled a Soarer converter, and while QMK Toolbox claimed the flash was done without errors, it turned out it wasn't flashing at all, and while I was seeing the HID profile built into the default Pro Micro firmware, HID listen didn't see anything. Nothing worked of course.  I had to download avrdude separately and flash with that.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Awekeys 'Hello Silver' Metal Keycaps for MacOS
« Last post by Nebulonix on Fri, 17 May 2024, 05:12:45 »
The stain finish silver looks pretty intriguing on that Aperture board!! 

Def wanna try.   GLWIC  :thumb:
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Keyboards / Ducky One 3 - any good?
« Last post by phinix on Fri, 17 May 2024, 04:58:29 »
Anyone tried Ducky One 3?
Any good?
I just want simple TKL, ideally with hot-swap - simple built keyboard, just so I can throw my switches on it and have a nice base for swapping keycaps :)
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Nooir - N1 | A Suspension Mounted Keyboard!
« Last post by ClickClack.io on Fri, 17 May 2024, 04:13:20 »
Some updates for Nooir N1.

1.Improved surface treatment technology, enhances skin-like texture


2.According the suggestions from IC, remove the words on badge.



3.change the packaging box.


4.Exhibit the sound dome

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Off Topic / Re: They Keep Turning Up the Crazy
« Last post by Findecanor on Fri, 17 May 2024, 02:52:17 »
It's a friggin memberberry for the height of the pandemic three years ago.

"Member when woke leftist liberals wanted you to wear face-masks against a harmless flu, and you got angry. We want you to feel the same now again"
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Interest Checks / [IC] Awekeys 'Hello Silver' Metal Keycaps for MacOS
« Last post by BinaryHarmony on Fri, 17 May 2024, 02:07:46 »

As a mechanical keyboard and Apple enthusiast, I'm totally obsessed with the concept of metal keycaps. I am using a Keychron Q1 as my daily driver with my Mac mini. So, I want to get metal keycaps with a Mac layout to infuse my keyboard with even more personality and unique charm.

I asked the staff at Awekeys if they could go with the MacOS layout, and they were very open to it. They even made a rendering for me. The satin silver finish is really versatile for any custom keyboard color. In this design, I've included all the mac keys like 'command ⌘', 'option ⌥', "media keys" in the base kit and cheekily swapped the character on the 'enter' keycap to the iconic 'hello', adding a delightful surprise to this set.



If you have filled out the previous IC form, I shall be grateful if you could take a moment to fill out the new IC form as well!


Basic info

Profile: Cherry

Material: Recycled Metal

Manufacturer: Awekeys

GB date: TBD
Fulfilment time: 2 months after GB


Kittings

Base Kit



Renders

Aperture Board






Koyu






Collabs

TBD

If you are interested in collaborating with me, please contact me through e-mail (BinaryHarmony@outlook.com).


Price

TBD


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