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[methylatedspirit]

So are you telling me that these things just get worse and worse over time because of drivers that get more and more bloated each update? And all that weird BS with this thing crashing the system, loading the CPU for no reason, and the Antimalware Service Executable being really overzealous is from said bloat?

[wierd]

It has gotten worse and worse with their requirements, from what I have noticed.  Seriously, the radeon drivers require the .net framework, because the devs dont want to use actual win32 api.  As a consequence, the drivers literally lug a user-mode abstraction framework around to do shit with.

Whenever I raise my voice about this, I get shouted down for reasons that are asinine to me, but whatever.

nVidia is not much better these days.  Still, it's a thing.

[Schmaven]

Does anybody know how to use the advanced alt codes for special symbols?  I've been looking through alt-codes.net and all of them that are listed as just plain numbers work fine, but as soon as special symbols are added to the code, I no longer understand how to input it.  Here are 2 symbols they have listed together with the codes provided:

Circled Plus ⊕
Decimal: &#8853   Hex: &#x2295

N-ary Circled Plus Operator ⨁
Decimal: &#10753   Hex: &#x2A01

I assume the decimal code is the one to use, so I tried the following for the Circled Plus:

alt + 38 = &
alt + 35 = #
alt + 38358853 = E
alt + 8853 = ò

However, I'm now tempted to conclude that all the other symbols are not accessible via alt codes, and that the decimal / hex codes given are just for programmers to use. 

[wierd]

Use charmap to view a font.

In the lower left corner, it will display the alt+#### code for the selected glyph.

[Schmaven]

Nice, I have been using the insert special character option in a text editor all this time not knowing there was a built in character map program in windows.  Playing around with it, there are a lot of characters that only list a value of U+25BA for example for ►.  The alt-codes.net shows alt+16 giving that same symbol ►.  Is there anyway to translate that U+25BA code into a usable alt code?  Or do you know of any repository where someone has listed all the alt codes in one place?  alt-codes.net currently has more alt codes listen than the windows character map.

[methylatedspirit]

Is there a way to stop my computer monitor from adjusting its black level automatically?

[wierd]

Is your computer monitor a TV?

I would need the make and model of your display to give coherent answer to that question.

[methylatedspirit]

It's an LG monitor, model number 23MP67HQ.

[wierd]

I dont see that it does.  The manual for your TV only has options for black level of "high" and "Low". No option to disable auto black-level.

[Reelya]

Gotta love the translations in that manual:

This is subsidiary for color weakness user.

Translation: this is an accessibility feature for colorblind users.

Here's the other feature that's probably to blame:

If option of SMART ENERGY SAVING is High or Low, monitor luminance become higher or lower depend on source.

Yeah, I'm betting it's this "smart energy saving" feature.

[methylatedspirit]

It's definitely turned off, I checked.

[Reelya]

What are the circumstances in which you notice the difference?

For my LCD monitor for example, even a pure black screen is brighter than when the monitor times out. That's just an artifact of the LCD being powered however, nothing can be done about that.

[methylatedspirit]

Watching YT videos in fullscreen, then exiting fullscreen. I suspect it's trying to reproduce the colors in the video correctly by raising the black level to high, but when I exit fullscreen, it doesn't reset the black level to low. Given that I use dark themes, and have a black wallpaper (just solid #000000 black), it's really noticeable when the black level is high. Plus, colors look too washed out for my tastes, which is why I set mine to low.

[Lord Shonus]

That may not be the monitor. Nvidia, at least, has the ability to set up a different color profile for full-screen video in the control panel. I assume that AMD and Intel have the same ability, but I haven't used a non-Nivida card in almost twenty years.

[methylatedspirit]

I found a guide to fixing the black level issue on Nvidia cards, which is what I have. The TL;DR version (assuming your drivers are reasonably new) is that under Display> Change resolution, there's an option for output dynamic range. Set it to Full.