At first I felt this wasn’t right, and then I flashed back to Whomp’s Fortress and scrambling to pick up coins from stomping on Whomps (and then picking up the 100 coin star).
Since it was announced in 1987, if they mentioned the pronunciation it was soft G. The inventor and CompuServe would tell you it was soft G. CompuServe’s applications would tell you if soft G in their docs.
It’s even in the documentation of PNG which came out 7 years later that says soft G is correct in GIF, and they wanted people to pronounce PNG as “ping”, not “pinj”. (Yes, really)
All English is based on etymology which is why it’s such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.
GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.
That doesn’t mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.
I use an LG C1 as my primary display now. After Rtings video and data on burn in there’s no need for FUD.
Even if I were to use my display for 6 hours a day for 3 years only watching CNN, which is a crazy test, the burn in is minimal. Rtings results. And the LG C2 basically has none, which shows how much better tech has gotten.
Unlike CRTs, OLEDs don’t burn in. They burn out. So you can even out the wear and mitigate it. As long as you run compensation cycles for TFT layer retention it’s fine. You can notice the whole screen shifts a pixel at times, but it’s not often (once every hour?). I use an all-black screensaver that kicks in after 5 minutes.
I wouldn’t trust Samsung’s code though. They don’t run maintenance cycles sometimes. Maybe you can fix it by being on top of when Samsung fails to do it manually, but it’s good knowing this LG will probably last me yet another couple of years. And by then, I’ll probably want a better TV/monitor anyway.
Phones don’t have all these features IIRC. TVs are built for longer use. Maybe that’s intentional.
It’s more because they’ll let you pay for the phone in two years with 0% APR, but you can’t just leave, not pay, and use the phone on another provider.
Before it used to be free or heavily discounted, but now it’s just a 0% APR credit service.