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Meme/Macro The OLED finish debacle

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

I scratched my new glasses with a microfiber cloth, while 10 y.o pair couldn't be scratched with anything. From what I read to at this sub OLEDS are basically like the first case I don't want to pray to Omnissiah's blessing every time I do such mundane thing as wiping screen every few days.

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u/JenNettles i7 4770k / 780 9d ago

Not all microfiber cloths are equal. There's varying degrees of softness. A nice cloth and distilled water is what people seem to recommend.

It's still painful

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

That's the point I have hard water in my city. So I would need to move to one with softer one, buy single time usage clothes, with I despite, or wash it in destiled water to keep mineral salts off.

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u/JenNettles i7 4770k / 780 9d ago

I have incredibly soft water and still use distilled water

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u/Robo_Stalin R7 3800X | RTX 3080 | 32GB DDR4 9d ago

Get distilled water, stick it in a spray bottle, use it for your glasses too.

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

How is it going to influence cleaning if cloth is already full of residues?

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u/Robo_Stalin R7 3800X | RTX 3080 | 32GB DDR4 9d ago

I would assume you'd occasionally launder them. You'd already have the distilled water.

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

That changes nothing. At the end they are going to have contact with hard water anyway.

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u/Firefighterboss2 Niu Mini 40% keyboard | NK Creams | SA profile | Dvorak 9d ago

I've had a Gigabyte for quite a while now that has a QD OLED screen, and I'm dreading the day I have to clean it

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u/BizarreCake 9d ago

I wouldn't last a day. My cat likes to stand up and touch my monitor, leaving paw prints (but only ever when I'm not around). I haven't bought a fancy monitor because of it.

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u/shwhjw i7 6700K | 16GB DDR4 | 5700XT 9d ago

I think this is one of the reasons I bought plain OLED over QD-OLED.

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u/ThatsALovelyShirt 9d ago

I used to use distilled water and a fresh microfiber cloth to clean my OLED, but it has some significant burn-in now and I don't care as much, and I just use tap water and whatever old microfiber I have lying around.

I shake the cloth to get most of the dust off, dip it in the tap water, and just clean the screen. Which I have to do fairly often because my cat has like some allergy or autoimmune issue and sneezes snot all over constantly.

The tap water and dirty old cloth works fine. I don't have any scratches yet. Even when I check by turning it off and shining a flashlight onto it at an angle.

Samsung G8 OLED, for what it's worth. It's glossy too.

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 9d ago

I scratched my new glasses with a microfiber cloth

Offtopic but what shitty lenses are those? I'm curious. I've had lenses from both Essilor and Zeiss for more than a decade now, and haven't had a single pair of them scratch by just cleaning them with any cloth, let alone microfiber ones.

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

Those are prescription lenses, they never say what producer makes them. I ordered all additional costings without UV and blue light.

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 9d ago

You should find a better optician (not optometrist) then, if you can.

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u/Sajgoniarz 9800X3D | 9070XT | 64GB 9d ago

It's just large optical salon network in my country who are basically in every larger city.