A_Porcupine

A few things:

• I disagree that LCD is good enough, especially for living room gaming. It is the best and most significant upgrade I've ever done, by a long way.
• In terms of Steam Survey, again no arguments from me, oled monitors are rare, I was arguing that TVs are not.
• There isn't such thing as content that works well with OLED, everything looks significantly better, especially with HDR, which almost everything supports and has done for a significant period of time.
• As someone that has been using an OLED TV for 5+ years, burn-in really isn't an issue, there's not a trace of burn-in on either of my TVs, or any of my portable devices with OLEDs. The only time I've ever experienced burn-in on an OLED was a Nexus 5, which is so long ago, that it's almost irrelevant. In the case of the Nexus 5, the only reason it ended up with burn-in is because I enabled the developer option to keep the screen on at all times, resulting in the status bar burning into the screen. All modern OLED displays take burn-in into account and run screen cleaning occasionally, which isn't noticeable as the screen just appears a black. So unless someone is running a news channel with a static logo 24/7 on the screen, they're not going to have issues with burn-in. It's worth noting I have an OLED TV on my desk too (that one was indeed on sale, for ~400 IIRC), and that has static content such as an Apple logo (work laptop 😞), on it for hours each day, with no burn-in.

I'm not sure sub-£550 ($700) with reasonable sizes (42"), really counts at expensive AF anymore (not cheap but not expensive AF). But each to their own.

Monitors no, TVs very much so.

Funnily enough, the one you'd expect this from, the bank, I used to work for, it's all Go and running on k8s in aws.

100%, sounds interesting! I'm going to spend some time tomorrow looking at a bug in the jellyfin android TV app related to DTS audio over HDMI.

Definitely true, I dread to think about how much tech debt these companies have. 😬

Unfortunately my bank, government, national health, surgery, local shops, food delivery services, etc. don't open source their code. It'd be nice if they did however.

As a software engineer, annoying bugs that should be so simple to fix are so frustrating! I wish I could just have a crack and fixing it myself!

I'm not sure that the NIC on one of the most popular Asus motherboards is really outside of everyday user territory. In my case, it's a realtek onboard ethernet chip.

On a "normal" distro the drivers for this are pretty easy to install, and is definitely something an everyday user could achieve (double click a single file in the download from realtek).

Honestly, even for a living room PC it's a pain. My living room machine uses Corsair fan controllers, so I had to battle to get OpenLinkHub installed, and a realtek 2.5gbe card, which I attempted to get working and gave up (kernel src package does not match the kernel for some reason). Not overly fun.

Honestly, I had been ready to leave for a long time, and I had been caring for them almost 24/7 for years. The main reason I hadn't left was that I was concerned that they'd end their life. There were many reasons why I didn't want to be in the relationship anymore, health aside.

There was an attempt to take their own life and I realised I had no emotion and honestly felt like it would have been easier if they didn't make it. My brother realised something was wrong so came to see me and it all came out. The next day I was trying to just go on like normal but couldn't, something just snapped. She went to stay with her mum and I had time to think and confirm how I felt. This last part was probably the most important, as it was vital to make sure I didn't regret the decision.

My advice would be: be honest, say you need time to think, give yourself the time and space, make sure it's right for you and if so, leave. If they don't give you the chance to think, then I'd say you have your answer. That's much easier said than done however.