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https://xkcd.com/1401/

I do have my screen set to sRGB, and it is possible it's simply incorrect in SDR - when I enable HDR, everything looks greenish IIRC. As for color profiles, I think there might've been a built-in profile that was automatically enabled in the settings? It's possible I'm looking at horrible colors and not realizing, but at least I'm not doing things like a friend, who "optimized" his colors to improve gaming performance, and keeps complaining about colors being weird 😅

Color management is annoying, since you need a correct reference to verify anything, and I never looked into that.

As for the monitors, I specifically meant good screens, not screens with good HDR - I feel like if you go for a good screen these days, it'll likely have some HDR support, letting people simply try it out with little effort on Windows.

I use Wayland exclusively, and I'm on up to date Arch. I'm talking about issues like screenshare issues with software, XDG desktop portal screenshare randomly breaking, steam notifications started positioning wrongly, steam's search stopped working (not 100% sure if those two are Wayland)...

I also tried running a game in game scope with HDR enabled, experimenting with options and env cars I found online, but it just didn't work. It was a sample size of one, but it was one game I wanted to play with friends, so I gave up in favor of just playing.

I also don't use MPV - I tried testing HDR with it, and it probably worked fine, but I don't have the right media to test it. (Side note: I should try mpv more seriously, but I haven't needed a video player much in general)

An extra annoyance is the fact that the LDR colors are quite off with HDR enabled on Plasma. I suspect this is the fault of the display or configuration, but it's still something I'd have to spend time researching and fixing, only to barely get any use out of it.

I haven't tried setting up steam itself in gamescope, but wouldn't it be limited to one window then? Could try it just to experience an HDR game, but otherwise it's a bit of a deal breaker.

You might be right about it being for enthusiasts in the first place, but I feel like there's a lot of people who will just pay up for a good screen that includes HDR, and on Windows I'd imagine you can just turn it on and start getting HDR from various sources - something that will surely become possible on Linux, but will take a while longer.

All that said, I'm not saying this to shit on Wayland or the developers' work on HDR. Not long ago HDR was something that just wasn't possible, and people were whining it'll take another 10 years at this rate. I'm excited to see the next update on this, as well as stable wider adoption, but that's the thing - that's something I'm anticipating, not something I'm gonna be using now.

Pretty sure HDR is "working" in the sense that KDE went ahead and implemented unfinished specs, so that the very few apps that also went ahead with it can do HDR, but only on Wayland which breaks other things that are behind, and also often requires very recent versions and specific obscure parameters to be passed to enable HDR support?

Yeah, it's a great step forwards and great for enthusiasts, but unless I'm very behind on the state of HDR myself, it's still something I'd consider "coming soon" and not proclaim it's just "working for me". It certainly feels like a "year from now" kind of thing - something to anticipate, not try to force just yet.

In addition to what was said by somebody else about atomic updates, even a simple update via package manager on a regular distro will do all the work up front, and not take extra time on next boot. Before you reboot, most things will continue working fine - and most of the remaining things that might not can be worked around.

But any knowledge you gain will change your behavior in the future, it's unavoidable, and those changes will compound causing the divergence to grow over time.

The only way to avoid "erasing" the timeline is to propose a time travel mechanism through which the timeline never changes despite passing information to the past, and that'd be basically what I suggested, taken to a bit more extreme of a conclusion - that because any other possibility would cause a paradox, your future self must have already made the optimal choice and will be satisfied telling your past self what they already heard in the past themselves.

Well, either that, or you just continue existing in a different timeline, with no benefit from helping your past self.

I think I agree, in a way. I beat the game, played for a bit, then just didn't pick it back up again. I don't need to 100% it, I can be satisfied with the fun I had, I don't need to try to squeeze out every little bit.

This seems like a completely pointless comment. If moneymaking efforts won't work because of the paradox of changing the future, then nothing else will work, since anything will change the future. In that situation, if given the opportunity, why not try?

Also, this can be resolved if your relative future self is smart enough to remember what they heard in the past, and say the same thing they heard when the time comes (unless it doesn't work, in which case arguably they'd say something else, which leads to an unstable configuration where the theoretical future will change until you reach a stable configuration where future you does repeat what you heard)

I mean, galaxy is a lot about the funky power ups, and odyssey has a lot of cappy-based movement, right? Not that those are bad, I quite enjoyed odyssey's movement myself.

Thankfully the AI use is very tame so far, used for stuff like offline alt text generation and offline translation. I'm personally still concerned about copyrights and ethics of the models used, but at least it's directed towards providing specific features, not a magic cure-all.

This is a bit of a conspiracy theory, but consider... Even if you buy a different brand, maybe they're doing the same? Maybe people bought a different brand, experienced the same thing, and decided to go Samsung next?

In the same way that earth has gravity that attracts objects, the objects have gravity that attracts earth. See also Newton's third law, also known as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." - for the earth to attract something, the earth also has to be attracted with the same force. It's just that the earth has a lot more mass, so the force barely accelerates it.