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So I picked up a iiyama ProLite b2409HDS monitor the other day (out of my apartment's bin room, someone was moving out I think) and it's supposedly 1080p but looks horrendous!

I don't know how to show it well and I think taking a screenshot isn't the best idea since that's maybe just down to 1080p looking worse than the built in screen on a MacBook Pro but I've included those pics anyway alongside some photos I took of the differing screens.

Pics here: https://Imgur.com/a/0WC18yo

EDIT: I used it for my switch and it looks perfectly good. I'm very confused!

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[–] frozengriever 4 points 1 year ago

The screenshots are very blurry but are you using 1920 x 1080 as the resolution for your monitor? In the last screenshot it looks like 1440p.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried changing sharpness, contrast, brightness using monitor buttons? Perhaps it was trashed due to hardware failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'd followed a guide online for calibration which I think made it worse. I've played around more now and it looks best when it's mirroring my built in screen but doesn't look great when it's in extended display mode. I'll probably stick the switch on it and see how it looks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

weird :D I assume you have checked in settings that ilyama has 1920x1080 resolution. The screenshot shows 4k in both cases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I downloaded like 2 resolution apps for further trying after trying all the resolutions available on my Mac 😂. Maybe a 2010ish monitor is just too old to match a 2020ish laptop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm using 2006 monitor just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then I have no idea why this is working so badly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've just stuck my switch on it and it looks perfectly fine! Looks better on that 24in 1080p than on my 27in 1440p monitor

[–] BitOneZero 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.

Reddit source code was open on Github until 6 years ago, I've been tempted to revive it and integrate federation ;) Using only "old reddit" level of interface. Just getting 6 year old code to install and compile is kind of a mess, but I invite anyone who is considering it to share notes! https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing this was meant to be on another thread?

[–] BitOneZero 1 points 1 year ago

you are correct. I never read this posting about monitors, so must be a bug I haven't seen before. Thanks for noting it.

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