Wow, relive the early days of really fucking terrible LCD displays for just under $2000.
What a time to be alive...
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Why, for the love of all the gods, do people keep saying and writing "LCD display".
Tell me what the "D" in "LCD" means!
What does the "D" mean, hmmm!?
The same as the M in ATM machine and N in PIN number, V in HIV virus and C in UPC code!
Oh, the dreaded RAS syndrome!.
I'm off to read some DC comics.
I will be reporting this to the American Association Against Acronym Abuse!
Also known as: The Fonz
I'll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.
it means peDantic
You really need to learn about RAS syndrome.
Ok, so what's up with that LC display.
This kind of redundancy creates semantic resilience, thats why we take the type name out of acronyms.
Instead, when designing acronyms leave the type name out of it.
Diode?
Display
Dichotomy of humanities ego and id and how it affects the standards of morality and self expression in a pre post scarcity world?
For a work machine with a lot of text and little graphics, this is great. Less eye strain for long periods.
In theory yes. But after seeing a review yesterday I am fully disappointed. Even text looks like shit on this monitor.
The US takes tariffs on the good stuff? Looks like there will be more stuff for us in the future.
Ah yes just in time for the trade war! Better get yours now
Aw yeah! I imagine it's like 2 fps. Great for gaming.
Its not meant for gaming. People who display a lot of text (eg. coders) could use less strain in their eyes if they're doing it for a long time. Definitely not at that price though
Pretty sure it's good for anything that requires text. I've already seen several people talk about it's use in coding, which makes sense since staring at a conventional LCD for hours on end can be a real eyestrain sometimes.
Waaaaaaaaay too expensive, but I'd love it if big eink displays became a thing, even with shit refresh rates, mostly because I want some for displaying Home Assistant dashboards.
There's this range of Philips signage displays in up to 32" (~$1800 USD): https://www.ppds.com/display-solutions/digital-signage/philips-tableaux
They even run Android, so should be able to install the Home Assistant app natively. Being intended as a signage solution, there's also PoE (although it is 45W 802.3bt class5), and even room for four 18650 batteries.
Notably though, they use the newer E-Ink "Spectra" (16 bit, 65,536 colour) panel which offers its full 2560x1600 resolution in both greyscale and colour, not the "Kaleido" one (12 bit, 4096 colour) of this Boox monitor that only has half of its 3200x1800 resolution in colour (Boox recommend using 1400x1050).
I don't know which of the two panels offers better refresh rates, however.
I bought a trmnl and it's pricey but works pretty good. I've mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.
There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be 'offline' in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven't put the time aside.
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If I could get a laptop with a screen like this, I could finally sit outside in a park and code like nature intended.
Also a lap desk. And a coffee thermos. And headphones. Second screen.
God, I'm too spoiled for nature, ain't I
This device runs android, but it's pretty close https://shop.boox.com/products/tabxc
I'd totally buy this if I had fuck you money.
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I’m thinking at those prices this is probably intended for corporations that absolutely need a readable display in bright sunlight areas but don’t really care about refresh rate or color depth.
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How many seconds per frame does it get?
Not sure yet, we're still waiting for the first frame to finish.
If the answer matters then your use case isn’t this monitor’s use case. If you spend all day in Excel, or an IDE, something like that, then it could be awesome for eye strain reduction.
Isn't eye strain mostly due to distance?
I’m no optometrist, but I would love to hear the opinion of one.
I checked and while it seems to certainly have an influence, it doesn't seem to be the main thing making a difference.
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I'm really keen on one of these displays eventually, as I can set aside the issues with refresh rate and colour accuracy, but the price needs to drop way down. It needs to be competitive with regular LCD monitors.
I look at terminals all day for work, this would make it so much more comfortable.
If you're coding with them you can already try small ones, unless you need bigger than A4 size for each it isn't insanely expensive.
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What is the refresh time? They carefully avoid mentioning that. There's a comparable Pimoroni monitor whose refresh takes 14 seconds so I'd call it a static display rather than a computer monitor.
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I'm good.
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