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reom_tobit
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reom_tobit
6y ago
It’s not necessarily about the hardware, but (for me at least) more to do with the OpenGL hacks I have to do to get reasonable cross platform support rolling. Took about 2 days to take a win project to linux, that same win project took abou
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reom_tobit
6y ago
yeah I believe that was the only option for older / cheaper displays. I recently got a kindle for a present and notice that when it can, it will try to refresh the screen as little as possible. For example, when you press the top of th
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reom_tobit
6y ago
I believe the danger is not necessarily when you are leaving the capsule in one state or another for a long period of time, I believe it is more to do with a transition. So if you’re going from black -> black you need to cycle to white t
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reom_tobit
6y ago
Due to the design of the screens (small capsules containing charged particles that move back and forth to create either black or white) the capsules can retain the charge that is passed through them if not cycled correctly. This will cause
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reom_tobit
7y ago
That’s a good point. In my experience in studios (from around 5 years ago) windows is just about as prevalent as OS X at this point. I’m sure whatever niche you’re in does affect this however.
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reom_tobit
7y ago
Pro Tools is a large part of the industry market and that’s multi-platform. What do you mean by “audio engineers are tied to apple”?