Sounds like you've already answered your own question.
It might die. If it does, it's not a super big deal. You have backups. You don't like creating unnecessary e-waste.
As gets have said, crystal disk info can help detect any existing problems, but it can't predict the future if something happens suddenly. So it can be a good indicator, but don't assume it's 100%.
Yep, that's right, you drew false conclusions from the start, in that I was referring to the same shade of gray as in the study; which, incidentally, was far more focused on light background & dark text vs dark background & light text, than it was black text vs gray text, so it wasn't even really relevant to begin with.
Glad we finally agree!
I mean, I wasn't mistaken, you drew false conclusions from what I said from the offset, then dug your heals in when I made it crystal clear what was meant, time and time again. Anyway.
It feels like we're arguing semantics for the sake of it, you're entitled to your opinion, as am I. You misinterpreted what I meant from the start, maybe I could have been more explicit. Whatever the case, have a good evening.
I don't disagree about the overuse of light grey/white, but it's really irrelevant to what I said.
My entire point from the very start, the point that you're replying to, was about the differences in shades of gray, be that from calibration or design choice lol.
If a screen is so badly calibrated that dark grey is coming out substantially lighter then it's probably going to doing something similar to black.
From my experience of using screens like this for years, no, it doesn't. Black is black. Gray varies by screen, and more importantly, by web dev.
No developer ponders what shade of black to use, it's 000000. Gray... Not quite as clear cut.
Nothing anecdotal about that, but sure. And my entire point from the start was that black causes less strain than light gray.
At the end of the day, you have your opinions, I have mine, and I'm sure you're right that dark gray is better than black for eye strain, but in the real world it doesn't work like that due to the reasons I laid out above; monitor calibrations and web devs who just throw whatever shade of gray they want on to it.
You don't always have control of calibration settings when you're on someone else's monitor, but at lest black always looks black and is still readable without selecting text to change it.
Also, as I said, not everyone uses the same shade of gray when building a web page/style/theme. In fact, far from it. Black however, is always black, one shade, 000000.
The problem with that is that not all displays show the same colours and contrasts, so what looks like one shade on monitor A can look totally different on monitor B. Combine that with the massive number of sites that just have any old gray, as opposed to a specifically recognised dark gray, and you frequently end up with text appearing is light or mid gray.
When this happens, (which you notice a lot on certain monitors) the eye strain is faaaaar worse than a nice thin black text. I find myself pressing CTRL-A at times to highlight everything on the page for a little more contrast, because the standard text is so unreadable.
At the moment, yep, completely agree.
In the future, maybe not so much. Think cloud gaming. Think VR. Think 4k per eye atm, scaled up as tech improvements scale up to much higher resolutions than we currently have. Maybe multiple people streaming VR games at the same time in the same household.
Now put all of that together.
Bandwidth isn't an issue right now, but this could potentially be a pretty sweet improvement as we move forward.
Video conferencing however... Not sure how that would benefit from this.
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