Adding/Including Memories
I lost my dad last year (2023) and have been finding ways to include keepsakes/memories in my workstation. I've dabbled here and there with doing small woodworking projects and attempted a wrist rest from a piece of oak I picked up with him from my great uncles wood shop. I milled it to fit a 60% keyboard as I hadn't decided what keyboard I would be using it on and thought that's where most of my wrist would be in contact even typing on a full keyboard. I gave it a torched/burn appearance as I really was lost in what to do. I found an old shell casing from going hunting with my dad in my hunting pack and decided to imbed it into the end of the wrist rest so it would just have a little difference and a small story behind it as well. I have other things around my workstation from family and friends, but it just feels a little more special having worked on it and adding something small that has a memory for me to it. (Purple was my grandmothers favorite color and I have kinda now...
Apr 8, 2024
Input lag indeed feels very low. Initial testing indicates I can consistently get within 1 frame (~16ms) of a simple input lag test. Will need more testing to verify how low it actually is.
Speakers actually sound OK, and get decently loud. Nothing special, but better than expected.
Screen has a matte coating, which I prefer for something like this.
The LCD panel quality is really bad. Viewing angles are awful, colors are washed out (especially darker ones) and my monitor has one dead/stuck pixel. I will contact Massdrop and see what their policy is on the dead pixel. Also feels like there's some sort of sharpening effect going on that I can't get rid of, which is particularly noticeable with text. You can see the sharpening effect create a small outline around Cammy in SFV. A bit distracting, but easy to ignore once you actually start playing the game. Retro games (via OSSC or HDMI based consoles like the Super Nt) look pretty good, although the poor viewing angle and color reproduction is still a problem, just less noticeable with upscaled/linedoubled 240p stuff.
Overall I'm still pretty OK with what I got. The LCD panel is pretty craptastic and begs for improvement, but the low input lag and portability makes this a uniquely useful monitor for me. I probably wouldn't recommend it to most people since they probably won't forgive the bad LCD (just look at other comments in this discussion).