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I have outright tortured my screen for the last 2 years and "minor" literally means it can only be seen at 0% brightness on a flat grey screen, and only if you know where it is already. If you go up even a single notch on the brightness it disappears completely.
You will get 10+ years out of them easily, just run the brightness at 25-50% instead of full blast all day.
I have a Gigabyte AO48U and one of the common complaints about it is that it auto-dims when a white background is on but I absolutely love this feature because fuck white backgrounds to death.
Sounds like you won’t get close to 10 years if after 2 the burn in starts
And I gotta keep my brightness down all day too just to be safe?
Lmao that’s simply why I’m not buying one 🤷♀️
Thousand+ dollar monitors degrading after a few years of normal use and that’s somehow acceptable to people…maybe when I’m rich lol