Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux Laptop

Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by wlesieutre on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:20PM (#20538428)

Huh. I've only had one stuck pixel in my life and I was able to fix it by poking it with a pencil eraser. Guess I've been lucky. 3 in one screen is a lot.

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Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by floatboth on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:10PM (#20539133)

Depends on how many pixels there are in total. I have two blue pixels on my 4K 28" display… if I'm able to see them, that means I'm sitting too close :D

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Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by everdrive on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:35PM (#20539252)

It's not that dead pixels are common, instead that it's hard to guarantee none will occur at n% across a population of screens.

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Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by flipcoder on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:24PM (#20539508)

wait, you can just poke them away?

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Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by 0xcde4c3db on Friday July 26, 2019 @09:17PM (#20539770)

It depends on what's actually wrong, but in some cases, yes. Sometimes it's possible to unstick a pixel by just displaying the right sequence of colors; poking the screen is essentially a more brute-force variation of that.

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Re:Pine64 Unleashes $200 Rockchip-Powered Pinebook Pro Linux... by wlesieutre on Saturday July 27, 2019 @10:46AM (#20542246)

And I’d bet that won’t work anymore with screens that are behind a sheet of glass

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