Hector Martin on Nostr: Yeah, there's definitely a subset of this that is just "crap monitor with crap video ...
Yeah, there's definitely a subset of this that is just "crap monitor with crap video processing creating properly visible flickering".
The claims about Apple products are more interesting, since Apple doesn't usually screw up screen tech. But when I looked into this, yeah, it was stuff like "this macOS update made it better/worse!" (and then it's a machine with VRR, so guaranteed to be dithering in the TCON, and then the TCON firmware is 1:1 identical between those two versions 🤦♂️)
The claims about Apple products are more interesting, since Apple doesn't usually screw up screen tech. But when I looked into this, yeah, it was stuff like "this macOS update made it better/worse!" (and then it's a machine with VRR, so guaranteed to be dithering in the TCON, and then the TCON firmware is 1:1 identical between those two versions 🤦♂️)