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Why do modern monitor controls suck? (pawb.social)
submitted 3 days ago by crimsonpoodle@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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My partner and I have a few new monitors, and some older ones. The new ones all seem to have the problem that the buttons are not responsive.

Often, if the monitor doesn't detect a signal, you just can’t enter the menu and the monitor turns off. Which becomes annoying when you are trying to change the inout to something that is putting out signal.

On the older monitors, the menus and buttons seem wholly divorced from the monitors state beyond being on or off. You change inputs and the little blue menu doesn't even blink.

So what changed technically speaking? I would imagine the newer monitors have faster micro controllers. Is there some standard everyone uses now that sucks? Or have I just gotten unlucky and many modern monitors have more responsive buttons?

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good question. My best guess is that the buttons have become less important, because:

  • they try to auto-detect where a signal comes,
  • they have better defaults, so you don't really need to change settings, and
  • even monitor brightness can partially be controlled by the OS.

But yeah, I got a new monitor at work, and instead of buttons, it has a joystick on the backside. Now the monitor's menu pops up every so often, I'm guessing because something shook the joystick just enough to trigger it.
When I saw that joystick for the first time, I wondered how long it'll take before it breaks, but it's broken on day 1, so that's great. 🫠

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago

Oof yeah I guess that makes sense; but I hate the monolithic way modern software is made: “it does everything automatically, It will work always” Not the unix way.

Same thing with the joystick on my monitors at work too.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most likely explanation... Modern monitors effectively have their own little PCs inside... that go to sleep when the monitor does to save power. Older monitors didn't give a crap about power usage at all.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mind you, changing the sleep logic to "if there is no signal and the menu isn't open" shouldn't be all that difficult. Neither should be waking up when a button is pressed.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That would require thought being put into it. That's a lot to ask for, clearly.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I really hate their power saving features. When combined with other shitty power saving features from the computer I encountered a case where the monitor turns itself off because it's not receiving a signal and the PC is not sending any signal because it is not detecting anything connected anymore.

Also, because they take a few seconds to turn on and show a splash screen I have to guess by noise of the fans when I can press the key to enter the bios or select the boot drive.

[–] aarRJaay@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I miss physical wheels on the side. Bring those back

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

IT guy here, what monitors have you used?

I don't think I have ever found a monitor where you can't change the input when the screen is off, usually when you press the input button the monitor will turn on to show the input menu.

This works with monitors from Dell, AOC, Philips, Lenovo and others.

You need to press the input button, not the generic menu button, but it has always worked for me.

[–] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok good to know— the monitors are the MSI 321URX and Samsung G9 Odyssey circa 2019. Most of the older ones are Dell. Any recommendations? Thanks!

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a general rule, I will try to standardize on Dell Ultrasharp monitors, now that they support 120hz, there is little reason for me to pick something else.

I am currently running a U2724D at home and it is brilliant!

[–] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

U3219Q reporting in. The new U4025QW is looking pretty tasty though, 5120x2160, 120Hz, Thunderbolt hub, more ports than you can shake a stick at.

All of the U and S series Dells I've used have been great, and they're by and large remarkably reasonably priced too.