I wouldn't mind if most "smart" systems weren't utter crap.
I bought an electric keyboard a few months ago. Despite having no screen, and being otherwise a super simple electronic device, it still takes about 15 seconds to boot up and become playable after I turn it on.
My new computer monitor is a 48" OLED panel. It has some "smart adaptive dimming" to prevent burn-in where the monitor dims if it hasn't seen enough pixels change color in the last few minutes. It slowly dims while I'm actively sitting in front of my computer programming, and I need to wiggle bright window around the screen to get my monitor to turn back on properly. I filed a couple support requests to the manufacturer, and they confirmed the behaviour is impossible to disable.
I bet they did that to get some environmental certification. In the gaming market this wouldn't be an issue and might even be desired. I had a similar problem a while back and also found it infuriating. If you can't fix it, trade it.
Thats the one! Other than the terrible software, its a gorgeous display.
I've been quietly wondering how hard it would be to reverse engineer the firmware to change the dimming timeout to u32::MAX or something. Either that or write a script to flash a bright overlay window for a few frames every minute or so to keep the monitor awake.
I bought an electric keyboard a few months ago. Despite having no screen, and being otherwise a super simple electronic device, it still takes about 15 seconds to boot up and become playable after I turn it on.
My new computer monitor is a 48" OLED panel. It has some "smart adaptive dimming" to prevent burn-in where the monitor dims if it hasn't seen enough pixels change color in the last few minutes. It slowly dims while I'm actively sitting in front of my computer programming, and I need to wiggle bright window around the screen to get my monitor to turn back on properly. I filed a couple support requests to the manufacturer, and they confirmed the behaviour is impossible to disable.