Very large monitors are amazing. I’ve been rocking a single OLED 48” monitor for my MacBook Air M3. It is killer and I can not go back to smaller screen sizes. I just wish it was 6K or 8K instead of my current 4K. And if I do upgrade it will be to a 52/55”.

How far are you sitting from that monitor then?

I'm only like 2 feet from my monitor so it doesn't make sense to go any bigger than 30"

I use a 49-inch LG ultrawide. 5120 X 1440, at 60Hz. Had it for a number of years. I think it was about $1,100, when I got it.

It seemed too big, at first, and I split it, but got used to it at full width.

I don't really care that much about pixel density or super-high framerate. I'm old, and don't really game. For software development, it's great.

Yes, but there's got to be some point at which it makes more sense to switch to a VR headset.

Original title was too long: "Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products"

Key details:

"there would be an initial cap of 49,000 vehicles on Chinese EV exports to Canada, growing to 70,000 over five years. China will reduce its tariff on canola seeds, a major Canadian export, from about 84% to about 15%, he told reporters"

Festool also makes a number of other cool tech like the SawStop. This is a little expensive and hard to justify for a hobbyist such as myself but still cool. I wonder how effective it actually is.

Limited use because it only works on straight pasta. The majority of pasta is not straight (penne, rigatoni, fusilli, macaroni, etc..) and thus you still need to measure it properly in some way.

The best way to measure pasta like this is to throw it from the packet into a bowl and you can get a good estimate of how much you need.

it is integrated in the box of the straight pasta... how is it "limited use" other than being part of the box that goes in the trash when the straight pasta is gone?

It’s limited to the boxes that have it…

I weigh any shape of pasta in a similar way, just without the box. (I.e., fistfuls)

My personal website (3D, hobbies and entrepreneurship): https://benhouston3d.com

Been on the front-page of hacker news a few times in the last few years.

I am old enough to remember the first two relaunches. I think this is the third relaunch right since it was beaten by Reddit.

How long until it is used against civilians who are viewed as annoying or part of an opposing ideology group or business competitors?

The worrisome part is that it may be easy to conceal and thus one can do this without much of a risk of getting caught.

We will likely have to respond with detectors everywhere, maybe even inside of phones (which would be really convenient and justify an upgrade cycle.)

Whatever it does (if the phenomenon is real) I'm sure it can be easily detected. If it is powerful enough to affect the human body, sensitive electronics will have no issue detecting it.

Edit: ah it's pulsed radio waves, so basically a radar (which itself is really a microwave oven without the door). Really easily detectable with as much as a diode. It could also cause weird effects in electronics. Like ccfl bars glowing on their own. They might have found a frequency or pulse form that the human body is exceptionally sensitive to.

I'm just a bit sceptical. We know radar can be dangerous at really high power but I'm sure this is the very first thing they would have checked for when this syndrome first came to light. I'd be surprised if the whole radio spectrum around embassies in sensitive parts of the world isn't monitored as part of standard counter surveillance.

Considering the parallels between havana syndrome and stuff like chronic fatigue syndrome, it may already be!

For comparison:

- The PS5 Slim Digital Edition is 12,700 Kč, which is 575 USD.

- The PS5 Pro is 20,000 Kč, which is 958.19 USD.

I think that the PS5 prices are not yet corrected for the new RAM prices as a result of the AI induced shortage.

I suspect the main issue is economies of scale. There is little demand thus there are no multibillion dollar plants optimized for delivering them at scale. (The same reason why 8K TVs are not yet cheap.)

There are so many kiosks out there though. It's more that I think because it's a commercial audience, the pricing hasn't reached down too much.

All that said, it's still odd there's not at least one boutique option for hobbyists.

There used to be tons. Heck there were even options we used to use where you could overlay over your CRT. That market has leveled out to what the market wants at this point.

Using cost per area metric for LCD panels when we stopped for the most part increasing resolution means you will find that the main driver of lower costs is the cost of glass.

Basically, we have been, since 2018 (I incorrectly wrote 2010 here earlier), only spreading out the same number of pixels on larger areas of glass, so the number of pixel components per unit area has decreased.

I have tried to price out 8K TV/monitors and they are horribly expensive (also not supported on MacOS). Probably both because of the larger number of components and we haven’t yet achieved economies of scale.

>Basically, we have been, since 2010, only spreading out the same number of pixels on larger areas of glass

Only if you ignore that 4k entered and then became common in the consumer space since then, followed by the introduction of 8k.

I’ve not personally tried it, but Apple have an “Use an 8K display with your Mac” support document at https://support.apple.com/en-us/102236.

You are correct! I hadn't checked since I had an M1 MacBook, back then it was 6K (https://juicedsystems.com/en-ca/blogs/news/macbook-m1-and-m2...), but it appears that since the M2 (according to the same website), the upper limit is now 8K.

The article doesn't use that metric though:

> The units are “dollars per area-pixel”: price divided by screen area times the number of pixels

So it seems like it factors in the pixel density too

4K TV’s were not really a thing in 2010

You are correct, I should have said 2018 or there about.