Screen Lama · the notebook

Screen Notes

Short pieces on panels, pixels and light — written to be useful, not long.

Check a new monitor for dead pixels before the return window closes Ten minutes with five colors, what actually counts as "defective", and the dust mistake everyone makes once. The white screen is secretly a lamp Hundreds of thousands of people a month search for a blank page. Here's what they know. Your phone as a video-call light: what works Placement beats wattage, warmth beats white, and the one ceiling no app can raise. Does flashing your screen actually fix a stuck pixel? The mechanics, the honest odds, and why OLED doesn't play by LCD's rules.