> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a branch in the firmware?

Note that this is an OLED monitor, so the "pixel cleaning" thing is probably some sort of anti-burn in feature. You could probably ask the AI to look at the firmware and describe what it does.

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Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last.

You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care.

Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for the alert is a strange self-defeating protest next to the explanation that it was a pretty expensive monitor.

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schlarpc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I understand what it does, I think the alert is annoying. It takes at least five minutes and automatically runs when the monitor is off. I’ve had it for a few years and have no burn in issues despite not doing this every eight hours on command.

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kulahan 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is it strange that among the 900,000 1-minute tasks you need to complete on a given day, this one is low on the list?

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eikenberry an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last.

Brand new models still have this popup... what "generation" are you talking about that doesn't need this? Or is it just unnecessary on the newer models but they have it any ways due to lack of firmware updates?

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californical 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever

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DiabloD3 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They can.... which everyone bitched about: they would do their cleaning cycle, no matter if you were busy or not.

	▲	kulahan 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Then they should do it at another time...? Obviously?

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userbinator 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Internet seems rather reluctant to explain what exactly "pixel cleaning" does, but based on the vague useless "explanations" I could find, I suspect it's a sort of "flat-field correction" where it calibrates the pixel drive current to darken the less worn and/or brighten the more worn ones so it eliminates the burn-in effect. This obviously leads to a vicious cycle where more worn pixels are driven harder and hence wear faster...

IMHO OLED is a planned-obsolescence dead-end anyway; LCDs can last literally decades, maybe with a backlight replacement, but OLEDs are designed to fail in a few years. I have a few (rather expensive) pieces of test equipment with OLEDs that became unreadable after only a few years and had to be replaced (fortunately with a regular LCD, and some firmware patching), while others with old-school CSTN/TN LCDs are still fine.

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Rohansi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think learning more about what it does is going to make them change their mind here.

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NegativeLatency 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or update the firmware to do it every n hours or screen blanks or something automatic with no nag

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baby_souffle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> You could probably ask the AI to look at the firmware and describe what it does.

Or ask for a patch so it runs after the monitor has been powered off for a while...

I use an LG OLED 42inch TV as a monitor and it has a setting to do just this.

	▲	ndiddy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I looked it up, his monitor does do it automatically after it's been powered off for a few minutes. He's getting the nag message because the monitor has been on and displaying a picture for over 8 hours.

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winrid 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every 8 hours is insane, though

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2III7 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is just crap UX. Sonys OLED tv-s for example do this automatically while in standby mode in addition to pixel shift while displaying an image. On the other hand Phillips OLED tv-s also ask the user if they want to do a panel refresh.

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moralestapia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps you didn't read the text you just copied and pasted, but here it is for you:

"I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever."

No need for ackshually, the guy is clear with what he desires. That is, by the way, the point of TFA. I want my devices to do what I want, not what a product manager wants or what a dude on hacker news wants.

The author even dropped a comment here doubling down on his intent. That is the main problem, when the smaht guys think they know better, to a pathological extent where they tell other people what they ought to do with their things .

	▲	harry8 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>...the smaht guys think they know better, to a pathological extent where they tell other people what they ought to do with their things . Not just tell, actually nag, coerce and force, often in the teeth of their own total idiocy. "Your password needs to be between 8 and 15 characters and include an upper case letter, a symbol and a number. (And an actually good, strong password will be rejected). See that all the time, still, in 2026. So very smaht.