The fedora-wearing nerds are ones with 244Hz ultrawide 4k HDR monitors.

What you’re describing is everyone who just wants to watch a TV show comfortably on their sofa. You could swap any TV for a base-model TCL the same size and they won’t notice.

Even the gamers won’t want 8K. You’d notice the drop on FPS more than the increase in quality.

It actually made it worse.

It’s the next 3D.

They try to expand in all dimensions. Bigger panels. Higher res. Higher bit depth. Increased contrast ratios. Stereoscopics. Higher refresh rates.

Yet to find a real world use for anything over a 65" QHD at 60Hz 8bpp.

I don’t think I want to waste 40MB per photo.

I always liked the dramatic…

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I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?

Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you’re being targeted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.

Tell them to piss off.

They’ll come after your phpbb instance next.

It would be nice if this extended to all text, images, audio and video on news websites. That’s where the real damage is happening.