Closing the window during an update is supported, you don't have to worry about it. Discover continues running in the background, and shows a notification until the update is complete.
For Netflix there's a browser extension that does it, but I don't know of a solution for other streaming services
I wouldn't read that much into it. Valve isn't Nintendo, I doubt they'd launch a new Deck without OLED
Quite the opposite, bigger grids are much more stable. When faults happen, tiny subsets of the grid get disconnected from the rest, it does not take the whole thing down at all...
Yeah, it gets more blown out the bigger the difference between the sdr brighrness setting and the highlights is.
Support for HDR screenshots is hopefully something I can add soon-ish
How are you taking the screenshots? Spectacle might not capture HDR highlights well, but it should look all proper on SDR content
Also, your blog is fantastic, I'm always happy when there's a new post =)
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
I feel like in SDR mode, the OLED is pushing brighter images. I almost feel like it's underselling the capabilities at 270, but does so to give pixels a rest every now and then, in the hope that the bright spots don't stay stationary on the screen. It's a wild guess, I have no idea.
It's certainly possible, displays do whacky stuff sometimes. For example, if the maximum brightness in the HDR metadata matches exactly what the display says would be ideal to use, my (LCD!) HDR monitor dims down a lot, making everything far, far less bright than it actually should be.
KWin has a workaround for that, but it might be that your display does the same thing with the reported average brightness.
That's not really a Wayland thing, that's an (apparently badly implemented) attempt to bridge X11 apps to a permission system they were never written for.
With appropriate sandboxing of apps so they can't just LD_PRELOAD code into all other apps you run, yes.
I understand that it's an absolute brightness standard, not like the relative levels in SDR
The standard is also relative brightness actually, though displays (luckily) don't implement it that way.
why does it end up washing out colors unless I amplify them in kwin? Is just the brightness absolute in nits, but not the color?
It depends. You might
Why does my screen block the brightness control in HDR mode but not contrast?
Because displays are stupid, don't assume there's always a logical reason behind what display manufacturers do. Mine only blocks the brightness setting through DDC/CI, but not through the monitor OSD...
Why is my average emission capped at 270nits, that seems ridiculously low even for normal SDR screens as comparison
OLED simply gets very hot when you make it bright over the whole area, the display technology is inherently limited when it comes to high brightness on big displays
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