What do you mean? I watched 21:9 videos on my 21:9 monitor and it filled the full screen for me.
Not all 21:9 videos. Often they are rendered 16:9 with black bars.
Damn, after really taking apart a few logitech products, I've come to the conclusion that their products are really kind of mediocre for the price.
I pay $300 for a steering wheel and I get a design that relies entirely on tight manufacturing tolerances to even [I]work[/I] but uses plastic [I]wear surfaces[/I] under heavy tension?
To make it worse, the entire thing is slapped together with loads of grease and a cable running to the central control unit that twists with the wheel so it'll work [I]long enough[/I] until the warranty runs out, but will eventually start getting worse with use.
They make nice [I]reliable[/I] products with decent QC, but it's like they purposely don't reinforce common wear points to give their products a shorter design lifespan. Everything from cords on wired mice, everything about the K750, and so on.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52834227]Damn, after really taking apart a few logitech products, I've come to the conclusion that their products are really kind of mediocre for the price.
I pay $300 for a steering wheel and I get a design that relies entirely on tight manufacturing tolerances to even [I]work[/I] but uses plastic [I]wear surfaces[/I] under heavy tension?
To make it worse, the entire thing is slapped together with loads of grease and a cable running to the central control unit that twists with the wheel so it'll work [I]long enough[/I] until the warranty runs out, but will eventually start getting worse with use.
They make nice [I]reliable[/I] products with decent QC, but it's like they purposely don't reinforce common wear points to give their products a shorter design lifespan.[/QUOTE]
Planned obsolesce.
Same with the tactile buttons in even their high-end Mice, with slightly above average use they last JUST enough for them to be out of their extended warranty.
The thing is, is planned obsolescence even a valid business strategy for PC components?
Everyone complains about Apple's "planned obsolescence", but for what it's worth, smartphones have a design lifespan of around 1.5-2 years because it's futile trying to get them to last longer (screens will break, frequency allocation changes, and contracts are 2 yrs) that it's not worth spending extra for durability.
Laptops generally have a similar design lifespan - by the time you hit around 3-4 years, keyboard and trackpad, battery, cooling system and what not are going to be in bad enough shape that you might as well replace the whole thing.
But for Logitech, I feel like I use their warranty so often to the point that it's not cost-effective for them to make shitty products - because they often send me 2 products for every one i buy. Not to mention that if their products keep failing like the 1 in 4 K750s that we just simply have to throw out, people gonna stop buying them.
Their wireless mice are still the bomb though, but those are also a demonstration in "planned" obsolescence in that people lose the stupid unifying receivers all the time and Logitech refuses to support Bluetooth.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52834277]The thing is, is planned obsolescence even a valid business strategy for PC components?
Everyone complains about Apple's "planned obsolescence", but for what it's worth, smartphones have a design lifespan of around 1.5-2 years because it's futile trying to get them to last longer (screens will break, frequency allocation changes, and contracts are 2 yrs) that it's not worth spending extra for durability.
Laptops generally have a similar design lifespan - by the time you hit around 3-4 years, keyboard and trackpad, battery, cooling system and what not are going to be in bad enough shape that you might as well replace the whole thing.
But for Logitech, I feel like I use their warranty so often to the point that it's not cost-effective for them to make shitty products - because they often send me 2 products for every one i buy. Not to mention that if their products keep failing like the 1 in 4 K750s that we just simply have to throw out, people gonna stop buying them.
Their wireless mice are still the bomb though, but those are also a demonstration in "planned" obsolescence in that people lose the stupid unifying receivers all the time and Logitech refuses to support Bluetooth.[/QUOTE]
The average user never wears the products out within their warranty.
That's their angle, you're most likely the minority who's technically a net loss to them, but replacing the products is good PR.
And Bluetooth is a bit iffy for mices, usual pairing problems and also sometimes latency issues causing more headaches than having to plug in a tiny unify reciever and forgetting everything about it.
Unless you're a unfortunate soul with a almost portless ultrabook.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52834227]Damn, after really taking apart a few logitech products, I've come to the conclusion that their products are really kind of mediocre for the price.
I pay $300 for a steering wheel and I get a design that relies entirely on tight manufacturing tolerances to even [I]work[/I] but uses plastic [I]wear surfaces[/I] under heavy tension?
To make it worse, the entire thing is slapped together with loads of grease and a cable running to the central control unit that twists with the wheel so it'll work [I]long enough[/I] until the warranty runs out, but will eventually start getting worse with use.
They make nice [I]reliable[/I] products with decent QC, but it's like they purposely don't reinforce common wear points to give their products a shorter design lifespan. Everything from cords on wired mice, everything about the K750, and so on.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the 21st century.
Where anything and everything is designed to fail.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52833937]What do you mean? I watched 21:9 videos on my 21:9 monitor and it filled the full screen for me.[/QUOTE]
If you want youtube's end cards with dynamic video embeds and other links and shit it forces the entire video to be rended in 16:9 throughout
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52833895]Hot damn, I just have been peeved a lot for the vertical AND horizontal black bars on youtube on 21:9 videos, like, I get a shitton less used screenspace due to it.
I was just watching a [URL="https://youtu.be/vy9h3SR7ZZY?t=9m4s"]CorridorDigital/Sam and Niko[/URL] video and it turns out it is a youtube endcard limitation. That's fucking retarded. Is it really that hard for somebody at youtube to do something useful?[/QUOTE]
They also seem to be shilling that computer company that either provided them with workstations, or a discount on them lately.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52834163]Not all 21:9 videos. Often they are rendered 16:9 with black bars.[/QUOTE]
Right, but isn't that on the person who rendered and uploaded the video then?
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52834740]Right, but isn't that on the person who rendered and uploaded the video then?[/QUOTE]
If you want to have youtube endcards, it has to be 16:9. Youtube endcards are really useful for content creators.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52834777]If you want to have youtube endcards, it has to be 16:9. Youtube endcards are really useful for content creators.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhh okay, now I understand. Yeah, that sucks.
Why are USB 3 cables so insanely stiff too.
Got a mail saying someone tried to login on my discord account from USA. Unfortunately it's a password I use for over 100 sites. I need to stop being lazy and use my harder passwords more.
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52836104]Get a password manager.
Can't stress this enough.[/QUOTE]
I got lastpass. Any tips? I just use it to autologin.
[QUOTE=Starship;52836149]I got lastpass. Any tips? I just use it to autologin.[/QUOTE]
Swap to keepass.
[img]https://puu.sh/yaCQq/2aaf8763aa.png[/img]
:thinking:
Since when does spotify do anything 3D?
edit: also that memory usage is when it's idle, fucking hell
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52836104]Get a password manager.
Can't stress this enough.[/QUOTE]
swapping from trying to remember all my passwords to 1password was the best quality of life improvement imo
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;52836545][img]https://puu.sh/yaCQq/2aaf8763aa.png[/img]
:thinking:
Since when does spotify do anything 3D?
edit: also that memory usage is when it's idle, fucking hell[/QUOTE]
a lot of applications used some kind of hardware accel these days, especially anything that's remotely web-based
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;52836545][img]https://puu.sh/yaCQq/2aaf8763aa.png[/img]
:thinking:
Since when does spotify do anything 3D?
edit: also that memory usage is when it's idle, fucking hell[/QUOTE]
It's a chromium embedded framework
So like a less shit version of Electron, but still almost Chrome
Geforce Experiance (similar tech) also shows as the 3D GPU Engine
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52836605]It's a chromium embedded framework
So like a less shit version of Electron, but still almost Chrome
Geforce Experiance (similar tech) also shows as the 3D GPU Engine[/QUOTE]
oh god Spotify's native client is a glorified webview as well?
[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;52836769]oh god Spotify's native client is a glorified webview as well?[/QUOTE]
Pretty easy to see by the way it loads pages. Nonetheless, what's wrong with hybrid applications?
[QUOTE=Starship;52836149]I got lastpass. Any tips? I just use it to autologin.[/QUOTE]
Here's a tip... don't use one password when you have a password manager with a password generator.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;52837767]Pretty easy to see by the way it loads pages. Nonetheless, what's wrong with hybrid applications?[/QUOTE]
Well, in theory, not much.
In practice, quite a lot tends to go wrong. I've had times where an Electron app will suddenly decide that it wants to force my CPU to run at turbo clocks for no reason. Strange rendering bugs, random bouts of insane memory use, etc.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52836175]Swap to keepass.[/QUOTE]
Can't find that for Android.
[QUOTE=Starship;52838100]Can't find that for Android.[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.keepass"]First result on Google for 'Keepass Android.'[/URL]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52835981]Why are USB 3 cables so insanely stiff too.[/QUOTE]
Shielding for the high frequency signals, and the few extra wires for the high frequency "superspeed" channels.
USB 2.0 is surprisingly forgiving due to its inherent slowness.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52838115][URL="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.keepass"]First result on Google for 'Keepass Android.'[/URL][/QUOTE]
Skipped that one because it looked sketchy from pictures. Will try it.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;52837767]Pretty easy to see by the way it loads pages. Nonetheless, what's wrong with hybrid applications?[/QUOTE]
[IMG]https://josephg.com/blog/content/images/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-8-57-24-AM.png[/IMG]
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