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  • Using a song as an alarm sound only works if it’s locally downloaded in Music and there are some codec and bitrate restrictions as well, but this is never explained anywhere. I’ve had to figure it out by trial and error.

    At the very least there should be a warning in the Alarm app when you choose a song as an alarm that isn’t going to work.





  • The monitor calibration tool on macOS does not support HDR properly, resulting in severe miscalibration.

    Also while writing this post I realized “miscalibration” is not in iOS’s spellcheck dictionary lol.

    Also Apple doesn’t fully support high refresh rate displays. My current display Apple supports as 100Hz when on Linux and Windows I can run it as 120Hz or 144Hz.

    (M2 Mac Mini running 15.3.2)

    External monitor is connected via thunderbolt to DisplayPort cable. It’s connected to my Windows/Linux computer via DisplayPort cable directly to the GPU.


    • a tool for backing up offline installers

    This really should be something they offer for free, and there are already some FOSS options that do this, although they aren’t as good as I’d like.

    • ability to install previous versions of a game

    This is a feature they already have for free and there would (or at least should) be backlash if they were to lock that behind a subscription

    • extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.

    Sure, neat.

    • voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

    Sure but said votes better have an actual impact.










  • Here’s a list of VR games I’d 1000% recommend:

    • Half Life: Alyx
    • I Expect you to Die (James Bond themed virtual escape rooms - 3 games in the series so far, all of them are good)
    • Super Hot (slo-motion first person combat puzzle game)
    • Beat Saber (a unique rhythm game)
    • Pavlov (CS:GO but in VR with extensive modding support)

    There are other good ones out there but that’s the list that justifies the headset to me.

    Also there are some good VR ports of non-VR games out there such as Myst and The Talos Principle. Also there are some good Minecraft mods that add VR support (Java edition of course). Stay away from the Skyrim port though.





  • I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.

    And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.

    That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.

    If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: https://www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/

    These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.

    When you display an HDR signal on a non-HDR display, there are basically two ways to go about it: either you scale the peak brightness to fit within the display’s capabilities (resulting in a dark image like in OP’s example), or you let the peak brightness max out at the screen’s maximum (kinda “more correct” but may result in parts of the image looking “washed out”).