Oh please, keep your sorry, defeatist excuses to yourself. Every vote counts. Becoming politically active is always an option. And there are literally "No Kings" protests all over the US this weekend, even in flyover states!
> The people who are genuinely concerned about shoulder surfing probably slapped on a privacy filter anyway.
So only the people concerned about it should get privacy?
> They're no different from a screen protector.
Privacy filters are way worse than screen protectors, they permanently degrade your display experience by a LOT, and you cant turn them off when you dont need them.
> I've seen this with laptops that came with integrated electronically controlled privacy filter.
Which are a completely different thing than this privacy display.
> lowered image quality
Exactly, these addon filters or layers degrade image quality, this new display doesnt. In normal mode its just a normal 2600 nits, HDR, 120hz, and whatnot OLED smartphone display.
> So only the people concerned about it should get privacy?
To call this an uncharitable interpretation would be an understatement. The phone has a feature that costs money and if you look around you’ll see most people don’t bother with this concern.
It has nothing to do with “should”. I have the same privacy now and for way less than the price of that phone. The solution for privacy exists already and the one Samsung offers was already “rejected” in the past because of the added cost most likely. Why do you think it comes on one of the most expensive phones on the market?
> these addon filters or layers degrade image quality
You didn’t read my comment carefully. I wrote specifically about integrated electronically controlled privacy filters on screen laptops which lowered image quality.
A phone at this price level already targets a tiny niche just because of affordability. A small part of that niche buys the phone because they want the privacy screen.
Its not a filter or layer, its the pixels themselves. Half are normal wide viewing angle pixels, the other half are pixels with a much more narrow viewing angle. When activated they just ... switch off the normal ones.
Are these comments from 2018? 'Pro' models of iPhones have been $999 or more, not adjusted for inflation, at their lowest tier since 'Pro' has been a thing. I would expect the same of a Samsung 'Ultra' flagship?
significantly and dramatically are two different things. I was sceptic when buying it but have no problem using the display with privacy screen on, and dont see that much difference in brightness, even in direct sunlight, fwiw.
Bonus with it on you can stretch your battery life, only half the pixels actually active saves quite some battery, who knew!
It is though. Had the same experience, dog slow transfers in FreeBSD on brandnew servers with 10/25G+ cards, hovering at 1-2G speeds. Only switching to Linux helped, and now easily saturates the links.
> speed limit imposed by a 1 Gb/s Ethernet link
FreeBSD might be slow, but its not that slow that it cant saturate a 1G link ;)
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