Comment on Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 days agoEven then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.
Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it’s still barely perceptible even when you’re trying to look for it.
With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don’t need to worry about.
I’ve been hearing how burn in isn’t an issue for years, but every phone I’ve had has had burn in. So I make sure to avoid apps that has a persistent UI if they are ones I’d use frequently.
I wouldn’t notice in normal use cases then be surprised when I read manga or webtoons on the display.
I’ve not had a single phone that’s suffered burn in.
Regardless, I’d trust someone who reviews displays for a living over my own anecdote.
The one group I can think of that actually tests burn in is rtings and they do that for TVs and monitors.
Phone reviewers just cycle through multiple phones so are the least reliable not using one phone as often or as long as regular people. Especially even more now that how long people retain phones has gone up with price increases.
Which actually has me wondering. How long do you typically use phones. Some upgrade every year. Some every 2. I’ve upgraded maybe on average 3 years or longer. So long it was the reason I shifted to custom roms in the past as security updates stopped. And getting nav burn taught me to try things like auto hide it.
I still have a oneplus 6 I use as a back up which is a phone that can out 7 years ago. Now sure how many years I’ve had it, but that’s got burn in couple years ago. Do you use phones that long?
Wahots@pawb.social 1 day ago
Ehhh, it’s still a thing. I had burn in on my S9, and I babied that thing explicitly to prevent burn in. And that was after 4-5 years. My desktop monitors are nearly a decade old starting next year (wow, 1440p still has amazing staying power).
I’d definitely worry about burn-in if you have Teams open for nine hours a day and the taskbar on. It’s crazy to me that phones still burn in from casual use. :/
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t say it’s not a thing, I said it’s not something you really have to worry about with modern displays.
And yet, the testing seems to show that’s not an issue.