Posts by Jesse Ortiz4

Hungry for that win 🍿

darkskipper5 said:Hey there,

Looking for something a bit higher quality than those Philips models for my home setup. Ideally, I want:

-minimum resolution of 2560x1440
-VESA mount
-low blue light mode
-freesync
-and it’d be great if they have plenty of ports, like DP, HDMI, and VGA, though that’s not a dealbreaker.

My current PC specs:

CPU: i7 4790S 3.20GHz
RAM: 16GB
GPU: 4095MB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 super (Gigabyte)

Thanks for the help, everyone. Have a good one!

You probably mean inputs (on the monitor); outputs are on the graphics card. A few specific monitors actually feature DP or HDMI outputs.
Why would you even need VGA if your GPU doesn't have it? And if you're specifically hunting for VGA, you're just looking at old, overpriced monitors.

What's wrong with those Philips ones anyway?

Just grab those ASUS ones you liked so much and call it a day.

slycyclist342 said:How far away are you sitting from that 34-inch?
I was leaning toward the 27-inch, but the 32-inch is maybe $200-$300 more, so I’m thinking I’d rather just bite the bullet and go for it.
My only worry is if it'll be massive. It's going on my desk, so we're talking maybe three feet of distance.

I've got mine at roughly that distance, and it's totally fine.
You just gotta get used to it because it feels way wider than a standard 16:9 setup.

Wild Tales

in New York City

absolute perfection

Anyone who’s actually sat through this movie knows there are some killer scenes in here. The fact that they haven't quite hit mainstream pop culture status yet is just another story entirely. 😒

Lana Turner scene

The Big Nowhere

placidviper12 said:Just finished watching it. Such a beautiful animated movie (and Burrow is awesome too) 🙂

Wait, who even is Burrow?

You can catch this for free over on Hulu

So, I’ve been rocking this 27" Dell UltraSharp for a while now, and honestly? It’s pretty solid.
Been using it since $600 when I picked it up over at Best Buy.

Samuel Scott54 said:Killer documentary. You can really feel that absolute mania they had back in Miami. But obviously, that’s not the full story on Diego Maradona as a player—that was just the peak Miami era. It would be wild to see a doc focusing on his early days in Argentina or his time at Barcelona.

I’m thinking when he moved to Miami, his manager hired some cameraman to film everything, which is why you see footage mixed with later TV clips—mostly because the cameraman probably got clocked with a shoe at some point.

Maybe there just isn't any usable footage from the earlier years.

Mirjana Bohanec Vidović—she really only popped up on screen in "The Sound of Music"
Turns out she was actually an opera singer

I thought Roberto Benigni was actually pretty solid in "Life Is Beautiful."

Images aren't showing up on certain threads anymore.
I tried uploading some pics but they just won't load.
It just leaves me with a dead link, even though PDFs are working fine on other posts.

Take this one, for example:


But here's where it's breaking:

youtube-dlg

Drew Thomas5 said:Greetings,
I am currently in the market for a 480GB SSD to upgrade my laptop. My dilemma lies in whether I should opt for a standard SATA SSD or if I should purchase an M.2 SSD and utilize an M.2 to SATA adapter instead. Would an M.2 drive suffer any noticeable performance degradation when routed through a SATA connection, or would it be more prudent to simply stick with a conventional SATA SSD?

Look, M.2 is just the connector type. Either way you slice it, the data is running through the SATA bus.

Unless you've got a PCIe lane available, obviously.

You can test out all the different keyboards at this link

On my desktop, I usually stick to using youtube-dl via the command line or just grab the youtube-dlg GUI if I'm feeling lazy.

I lean toward youtube-dl most of the time. Honestly, you just get way more flexibility than you ever will with a GUI.

As for my phone, I just run NewPipe on Android.

Andrew Miller102 said:What’s wrong with a 27-inch 1080p monitor?😁 Or what kind of idiot needs a magnifying glass just to hunt for pixels on a screen?

This isn't even about PC monitors, but man, human stupidity—especially when it comes to marketing—is bottomless. Like seeing 1440p resolution shoved onto a tiny 6.5-inch smartphone screen.

Let me be blunt: a 27-inch 1080p monitor is perfectly fine. Even a 32-inch 1080p setup (if you're using a TV as a monitor) works great, unless you're trying to stare at it from 10 inches away looking for dust. If you aren't doing pro photo editing where high res actually matters, 27-inch 1080p is as basic and essential as a glass of water. Don't even get me started on HTPC setups, where people hook a computer up to big 1080p TVs and nobody bats an eye. My neighbor down the street has an older Philips Ambilight 50/1080 p TV hooked up to his rig right now. The guy doesn't feel the need to run out and buy a new TV just because some marketing hype says "you can't live without 4K."

I've been staring at a 27-inch 1080p monitor for years, and I don't own a magnifying glass, nor do I need one. Am I crazy?.🤔

Anyway, here's the absolute criminal,🙂 the guy who actually thinks it's a good idea to use a 32-inch 1080p TV as a PC monitor.🍿

Sorry, but you don't need a magnifying glass for 27-inch 1080p; it comes standard with the resolution 😒

On a 32-inch monitor, this guy is claiming the text is super sharp. Honestly, I kind of want to reply and ask him if he forgot to put his glasses on.

boldseal9 said:How bad does FHD actually look on a 27" screen? Is it bad enough to justify dropping an extra chunk of cash for QHD? 😬

Grab a magnifying glass and hold it up to your monitor. Then you'll see exactly what watching stuff in FHD on a 27" display looks like.

The decent monitor I picked up is now $567IPS WQHD
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/philips-272b8qjeb...m_medium=click