Re:Everything I own, owned
by californical on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:45PM
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Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
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They can.... which everyone bitched about: they would do their cleaning cycle, no matter if you were busy or not.
Then they should do it at another time...? Obviously?
Maybe he should have assigned an agent to it.
And thats why we have the warning that everyone bitches about: "Hey, the timer is up, but I'm not gonna make you do it, its just gonna wear the display out faster".
Early OLEDs really did need to be pixel cleaned every 8 hours according to manufacturer estimates, the choice isn't have warning or not, its have a lifespan or not.
I don't want to blame early adopters for being early adopters, but they early adopted, and this is the early adoption problem.
Because the run a full blown OSes on monitors now, and for some reason it cannot figure out the simple "wait until you're off for at least 10 minutes to do the cycle instead of bothering the user at random intervals"
They do run it when its off as well.
I have an MSI OLED monitor, and if I accidentally turn it off (trying to find the input switcher), and then back on, it shows this warning.
But it automatically runs when it's turned off. The warning is shown because I interrupted it running early.
The warning, for my purposes, is completely useless, and only an annoyance. The automatic feature is more than enough, and I don't need to know if it was aborted early.
Then turn off the warning: all modern OLED monitors that do not force you to run it can both change when the timer fires, but also just disable the notification altogether.
This is what I have done on mine, and mine as well also runs it when its off.
If your monitor is a Samsung OLED panel, yours is a near identical sibling of mine.