My Stupid Meme Saved HUNDREDS of Wasted Monitors

I can't believe it myself 🤔
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0:59 - My Meme Version
2:01 - Reading Some Responses
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[@ross3695_basedhax]

Lebron James accidentally used motherboard HDMI instead of plugging it in his GPU

[@kilgorezer]

LOL

[@zeta_eclipse]

what's the difference?

[@ross3695_basedhax]

@@zeta_eclipse Motherboard HDMI port use your crappy integrated graphics on your cpu(like Intel hd graphics 2000 or some rubbish) youre meant to use the HDMI on your GPU

[@WeatherMan2005]

Unless you dont have a gpu....

[@aeghohloechu5022]

@@zeta_eclipse it will either use an integrated GPU on the CPU itself (which can barely get a display out at 60 hz or something as barebones) or straight up render graphics on the CPU (which is very not good).

[@Tibasu]

I can 100% believe this is the reason people think there's no difference between refresh rates

[@fusion9258]

Yeah I imagine if someone is dumb enough to say there's no difference between like 60 and 120 they're dumb enough to never check their settings💀

[@volvo09]

Yeah if you can't notice it you DID NOT change the "Hz" setting. It's immediately noticeable, even in the windows UI.

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

That's why everyone needs the MSI Afterburner telemetetry overlay.

[@sylv256]

​@@fusion9258 isn't the rule of gaming to always go to the graphics settings first

[@jnsdroid]

@@sylv256 only if you assume rule 0 is setting up your hardware and OS correctly

[@Arc.M]

I can't fathom buying a thing and not checking if the thing I bought the thing for is actually thinging.

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

Me neiter... And we're the exception it seems.

[@insertusernamehere8125]

truly the thingiest thing moment of all things

[@asinglefrenchfry]

Same, I have a friend who is much more of a gamer than I am, and he has two 4K 144hz monitors. Both of which were set to 60 for a whole year. When I got him to fix it, he seemed pretty indifferent to it. I guess some people just like having material things without caring about the technical stuff, or even knowing the difference in what they’re paying for.

[@vittosphonecollection4134]

Exactly. Recently got back my 75hz after having lost them for so much time (yup, my PC stopped supporting 75hz randomly one day when I updated the video drivers and two days ago, after shutting down and turning on the PC multiple times, it came back!)

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I guess some people never bother looking at settings because they treat tech more like magic and think it always just works, meanwhile others know how much goes wrong all the time in software and have specific preferences, so they check the settings first. I've even seen a PC screen that by default turns itself off after 4 hours no matter what, and of course that was discovered during an important zoom call. That's why I have trust issues.

[@antekpaztek]

3:11 LEBRON reportedly mistook SPANISH for FRENCH

[@christianp.a.4562]

¿¡¿como pudo confundirnos?!? xdd

[@Atoltol_]

Comment peut-il confondre ???

[@Dramilos]

That is spanish

[@antekpaztek]

@@Atoltol_ j'en ai aucune idée!

[@antekpaztek]

@@christianp.a.4562 ¡no sé!

[@neltlen]

That is why most people "cannot notice above 60fps"

[@silloo2072]

True

[@Platinum_XYZ]

"man I just got a new gaming monitor but honestly I can't see the difference. feels exactly the same"...

[@LindonSlaght]

Dude even 70hz is way smoother idk how people live at 60hz.

[@Platinum_XYZ]

@LindonSlaght cause they haven't seen higher than it before. kinda like how before we got HD, we couldn't imagine SD looking any better. similar situation these days for people upgrading from HD to 4K

[@LindonSlaght]

@@Platinum_XYZ some still think SD is fine 👹

[@skelebro9999]

ThioJoe casually saving humanity with a stupid meme is truly a ThioJoe moment of 2024.

[@mctogo001]

ofc

[@xynocode]

ThioJoe of the year 🎉

[@SianaGearz]

As opposed to wasting tens thousands of collective hours by trolling, which is what this guy did in the past.

[@patrlim]

what a change from 10 years ago wrapping batteries around ethernet lmao.

[@skelebro9999]

@@patrlim the glowup is insane

[@sshhacker]

4:40 I can't believe how much AI has improved generating text within images!

[@PrivateYT-AG]

Look at their left hand

[@emirbaran08]

@@PrivateYT-AG what the💀

[@FoxMaster]

Dall E 3 has always been good at text

[@NoName-ik2du]

I did the same thing a few years ago. Got a new T.V., hooked my computer up to it, and ran everything at *30Hz* for like two years before I realized there was a setting to change it.

[@rekire___]

**Chek monitor settings** _YOOOOOOOOO_

[@TheLiteralDescend]

BRO FORGOT TO CHANGE LMAOOOO

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

59Hz monitor - There is nothing we can do.

[@shiro3146]

Congrats! now you can unleash its full power

[@Alyng0]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Just ask the monitor nicely, maybe it gives another hertz

[@xrafter]

​​@alexturnbackthearmy1907 You can overclock your monitor. But that would cause to use more energy, and more energy is heet.

[@designtechdk]

Apparently Windows will recommend 60 hz as a energy saving option

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

I was just going to comment that.

[@TheXev]

I guess this might make sense on a laptop? Never seen this on a desktop tho.

[@pyp2205]

I remember changing it to 60 hz on my gaming laptop since I wouldn't game a lot despite it being a gaming laptop. Now I decided to change it back to 144 hz.

[@RandomGaming85]

That is a good point. Microsoft uses aggressive and invasive power management upon windows updates. On my laptop is the CPU/GPU is down clocked/throttled due to microsofts wonderful power profiles. They do the same thing to desktops computers.

[@fusion9258]

Windows 11 has been fine for me with detecting refresh rates every time I buy a new monitor, not sure about windows 10 because I haven't used it in a while

[@RadioactiveBlueberry]

Same thing goes with color accuracy. Long time ago I met a person who was working as a photo editor, and I noticed some bluish tint she wasn't aware of. It was not a professional grade monitor, but simple adjustments in GPU settings I helped her with, made all reference photos look much more correct to begin with. Later I met another office worker who was using a two-monitor setup, so it didn't even need a trained eye to see that the other screen was very purple, almost like green color signal was running on half strength. Windows built-in calibration tool fixed mostly that as well, to much tolerable level. Both were like, omg it looks so much better now. Edit: And yes, the monitor's own adjustments should always be checked first.

[@TKontent]

LEBRON JAMES has reportedly been throwing away his MINISHARK PRE HARDMODE without UPGRADING IT

[@theunderstatement6842]

LEBRON JAMES has reportedly SOLD his COPPER SHORTSWORD in his TIN-ORE WORLD not knowing it is a REQUIRED ingredient to CRAFT the ZENITH

[@net6406]

Lebron James has REPORTEDLY been SELLING extra life crystals instead of CRAFTING heart lanterns out of them

[@tehdanny682]

LEBRON JAMES has reportedly submitted a BUG REPORT for the GUIDE NPC to not spawn after DYING shortly before noticing it spawned on a SKY ISLAND

[@miki2003pl]

LEBRON JAMES has reportedly forgotten to equip the DISCOUNT CARD before reforging his new weapon at the GOBLIN TINKERER

[@TJ-hg6op]

LEBRON JAMES has reportedly done AN ANGLER QUEST (Who tf does those)

[@kote315]

I'm wondering what percentage of people claimed that they see a clear difference between monitors with different refresh rates, while using 60 hertz everywhere.

[@soul_maestro]

way too many that fall into this marketing trap.

[@Maxawa0851]

@@soul_maestro you can legitimately see a clear difference between 60 and 120 hz, havent experienced anything higher though

[@budgetarms]

@@soul_maestro I mean, you can see a noticeable difference between the two (60 and 144)

[@rendaddy_]

honestly, upgrading to a better panel with same refresh rate already makes some difference, I won't blame them for thinking they switched refresh rate as well

[@soul_maestro]

@@Maxawa0851 between those 2 ... maybe. but in many shops they'll prob also have this same setting wrong while selling their 'higher refresh rate screen' declaring that same sales pitch of 'you can see the difference' and many ppl will go "yeah i can see it", while there is no real difference. ps: 120Hz screen is nothing if the app you're using or the game you're playing isn't providing 120+ fps.(and staying at or above that number)

[@creeperizak8971]

This must be how you get those people who insist you can't see the difference between 60 and 120.

[@cobwebblocks]

Or they go to a youtube video which shows 60 vs 120 fps (youtube maxes out at 60)

[@creeperizak8971]

@@cobwebblocks I think they would only care so much if they spent hundreds on a high refresh rate monitor just to find that it looks the same as their old one.

[@cobwebblocks]

@@creeperizak8971 I mean that they would complain it looks the same, not knowing KZbin maxes out at 60fps

[@SnoFitzroy]

Here's the thing though: Biologically speaking, you just can't. There's a hard limit to how fast the brain can detect differences like that, and would ya look at that, it happens to be barely faster than 1/60th of a second, almost like there's a REASON it's the standard or something.

[@8BitShadow]

@@cobwebblocks 30. Only goes to 60 on 1080P or higher.

[@garion742]

You made a silly meme and people got serious help from it. Sounds about how this channel started 😂

[@DavidGoben]

Great vid. One of my Hp UHD monitors was defaulted at 59.85 Hz. I actually saw its higher settings under Settings / System / Display / Advanced Display Settings, but most devices are now smart enough to recommend optimal settings, so I assumed it was correct (even though I oddly automatically sets a monitor to its highest refresh rate for clients using a gaming system, but that is because the docs for the GPU I am installing for them recommends it). After all, every one of this monitor's other settings have a "(Recommended)" tag on them. As an A+ Certified Computer Technician and still a professional software developer and language designer at almost 70 years old, I love it when I can still learn at least one new thing every day. Thanks for giving me another reason to laugh at myself!

[@Tan3l6]

Yeah, some "experts" saying 240Hz is not so much smoother than 60Hz might be informed now.

[@pyp2205]

I bet those "experts" think 0.1 bytes per second is faster than 1 terabyte per second.

[@Tan3l6]

@@pyp2205 I would not go to such extremes, but kilo-. mega-, tera- and petabytes might get some people confused. Not to mention the difference between bits and bytes.

[@AlexRaylight]

Isn't it the opposite? If the difference is so notable, then how come these people never noticed they were still using 60Hz?

[@SOTP.]

@@AlexRaylightbecause its their first ever screen with a higher refresh rate: thus they never knew what it was like so they did not think about that.

[@Tan3l6]

@@AlexRaylight if he people who never used anything above 60Hz have the monitor set to 60Hz instead of 240Hz they would not know better, is my point. And can't blame them if that's the case. If people who have 240Hz monitor set to 240Hz they would notice the difference between 60Hz and 240Hz. Or do you disagree?

[@SnoFitzroy]

lebron james reportedly imported peanut butter into vegas pro

[@JmKrokY]

🗿

[@jajoothecoolman]

no fucking way

[@Yezpahr]

Thousands of video essays are still coming about this exact same thing lol.

[@ulroxvladtepes4023]

My man. This just shows that what you do actually helps improve people's lives. Keep on doing you.

[@manukrane9808]

Lebron James reportedly forgot to delete the contents of his %temp% folder for 2 years

[@appsaucetech]

He forgot to run disk cleanup

[@manukrane9808]

@@appsaucetech He forgot to disable Startup Apps

[@sylv256]

He forgot to put in a fake password and skip logging in with his Microsoft account

[@manukrane9808]

@@sylv256 He forgot to disable Windows Telemetry Compatibility

[@_Yassir_]

That Crashdumps folder tho...

[@TheSimArchitect]

It's not only that. Windows revert it back to 60. Sometimes a new NVidia driver update has the same effect. Not sure why.

[@BarafuAlbino]

If you once saw a mouse pointer at 60 and 140, you can not unsee it again. Thus, the revert will be noticed immediately. I notice how screen is locked to 60Hz when I Alt-Tab out of running instance of Overwatch.

[@TheSimArchitect]

@@BarafuAlbino I only have 1 faster screen at 75 (or is it 85) but I don't use it as it's too small and I prefer my 60 Hz 4K TVs I use as monitors, instead. I dislike 30 Hz though. Have to remember to set the TV to take the 60. Once all is done it's ok for ever (or so it seems).

[@TheXev]

This is normal, because some driver uninstallations will delete saved Windows monitor profile data (if you use DDU, it should happen 100% of the time I think). AMD drivers are the only drivers I know of that have automatic high refresh rate enablement. Anyone who things windows automatically enables high refresh rates, you are wrong. AMD drivers have had it as a feature for a very long time, however.

[@sylv256]

I've been using Linux and never had this issue wth

[@Yezpahr]

@@TheXev Unless you manually set it once, then it just assumes you will personally adjust it forever. I've forgotten all about AMD doing this automatically, but they've been doing it for 20 years or so yea. Just not on my machines xD.

[@RealHellession]

0:51 That one sent me back. People dont have to hand-delete these META-INF folders anymore, but this used to be required with very old mod loaders back in like 2012-2014

[@gadgetdan2111]

Thanks to your videos I am always keeping up to date to everything that is to know about current software updates and PC tricks. I am so glad I watched this video!

[@nonsequitor]

Love that French guy who commented in Spanish 😂

[@sylv256]

If you read, it said Thio forgot it was in Spanish.

[@whale2186]

@@sylv256 its joke bro !

[@ImSayyD]

That's french

[@benjaminmaher8896]

@@ImSayyDim french and that text wasn’t french.

[@ImSayyD]

@@benjaminmaher8896 I'm french as well... And I can tell you that's definitely not Spanish.

[@mlemingcapoo]

So this is how the idea that "high refresh rate doesn't make a difference" originates

[@KLAO_]

What an achievement. Congratulations on making awareness of these problems.

[@Desmxnd-]

I saw this meme on Instagram once and rushed straight to my settings, fortunately it automatically had it at 144 but this meme seriously is a life saver for some people. Genuinely hilarious how people are finding actual help from this because it could've easily been me.

[@a64738]

Before flat screens it was even worse as the 60hz default was responsible for countless sick days due to headaches from the 60hz flickering you got on CRT screens...

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

CRTs used mainly 30 interlaced frames, that was the real culprit.

[@Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein]

@@DavidPereiraLima123 CRT monitors didn't, interlaced was mainly a TV thing, and the only time I came across with was with PAL at 50hz interlaced so you got 25. I did actually have a monitor that did both high resolutions and PAL and NTSC signals but it was really uncommon, you had to pay much more for it than regular monitors, and it pretty much had one use case.

[@JmKrokY]

50Hz*

[@andreylucass]

At least we have copilot on paint

[@Elytri0]

i love seeing these memes around and the quotes you got lol

[@allak1n]

Just goes to show that memes are an easily digestible, engaging form of communication, and you used it to solve a problem for a lot of people, great work.

[@simmo5]

Never realised it was a thing! Had my monitor for a year and a half and the refresh rate was on 60hz when I could've had it on 120hz. Thanks for the advice 👍

[@HyperNova808]

How is it so far?

[@xenird]

​@@HyperNova808obviously much better

[@HyperNova808]

@@xenird I mean yeah but I wanted to hear from them

[@lordmox21]

It's a Windows or GPU drivers problem, sometimes you update drivers or change other screen options like the resolution and the hz go down to 60. The first time I plugged the PC to my new 4k TV it just looked awful and made me feel sick while playing for a while, Windows defaulted the refresh to 30hz!

[@raylopez99]

30 Hz I think is what they use in movie theatres, traditionally, so it's OK.

[@TheXev]

This isn't a driver problem. Windows stores information on each monitor in a profile. Most uninstallation tools or "clean installs" will remove this monitor profile data (DDU does it 100% of the time). Only AMD drivers will automatically enable higher refresh rates when a monitor is plugged in. nVidia drivers have never had this feature.

[@SOTP.]

@@raylopez99definetly not for gaming or when you are used to even a 30 hz cursor

[@Leonhart_93]

Can happen from time to time, but once they experience 144Hz properly it there is no way they will be playing games at 60Hz by accident and not notice. When I am playing on my other PC it takes a while for me to not be annoyed by the 60Hz refresh rate and adjust to it.

[@namesurname4666]

​@@raylopez99 yeah happened to me but when you start to play 60 fps stuff it stutters

[@souptaels]

I sure love finding out extra functionality, and setting I thought would be fine tuned by default, through silly internet memes. Fun!

[@sf-5584]

It's pronounced gif.

[@BluExtaByte]

Nah it's pronounced gif

[@BluExtaByte]

Nah its pronounced gif

[@Heyght]

It's pronounced Jeff

[@walking_disgrace]

Nah it’s pronounced gif

[@Posh_Quack]

Bro I heard him say it and I instantly looked down at the comment and it scrolled to this, perfect timing.

[@astreakaito5625]

I hope all these people did further research and understand that now, 60 or 30fps content will not look correct and fluid without also activating VRR/Freesync/Gsync (or picking fixed 120hz instead) Because 144 isn't divisible cleanly by 60 or 30, those framerate won't have proper framepacing, making the motion more stuttery, and a lot of content is 30 fps (youtube) and lots of games at locked to 60fps. To make matter worse Freesync can flicker sometimes on the windows desktop and for some app and rarely some games it's just not gonna work at all. So most monitor let you see on their OSD if the VRR is working properly for whatever content is currently running (the Hz number should slightly randomly change around as it's adjusting the rate dynamically, that's the point of VRR)

[@erixIsOffline]

Thanks

[@MarkoVuckovic32]

When it comes to Windows, I never assume that everything will work by itself out of the box so whenever I get some new hardware, I always make sure to at least check the settings and see if everything is as it should be.

[@emilflarsen2]

That METAINF minecraft meme is golden, i remember deleting that folder so many times

[@juega331]

I didn't even knew how to do this, i just learned to change on this with this video thank you Thio

[@SonoraWolf]

the reaction to how smooth it looks when they finally enable the refresh rate is equally as funny, every time I play 30FPS games on console and back to play on my 280 Hz monitor and everytime I feel the same as these people after the figure it out.

[@katycatjulius]

It indeed would be nice if manufactures would put in a little note explaining to do this or windows itself could detect it and give a notification asking you if you want to change it

[@racky2]

This is so awesome! 😂❤ 144hz is so noticably smooth, I'm really glad these people can finally feel like their imvestment was worth it.

[@jojo_joestar7583]

Bruh this meme was so utterly relatable i was using my 144hz laptop for 2 years and only after looking at your meme i realised it was at 60 hz the entire time 😭Lol love the memes and the videos

[@MrHack4never]

I wonder how many stores have all their expensive gaming monitors set to 60

[@gamecuber6]

LeBron James reportedly forgot to change his computer's depleted CMOS battery

[@pshteamrblx]

I had it stuck for 3 months. This meme helped me!

[@ryvengeance6467]

I knew but you got me paranoid and I had to double-check.

[@zea_64]

My monitor lists 2560x1440@60 as the first mode, followed by 2560x1440@144 and 2560x1440@120. Of course, the actual settings UI sorts them, but maybe Windows just default to the first mode? I'm sure there's some stupid compatibility reason the 60hz one is first.

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

Yeah, the first mode reported is the recommended mode, and my best guess is that when it's defaulted lower than the max refresh rate, it's for compatability with, say, subpar cables, and (what should be) a reasonable assumption is made that someone who'd buy a display with a higher-than-standard refresh rate would know how to actually use it.

[@atemoc]

The Linux Fox! Well, the modern re-imagination of it by someone I cannot remember. To think we got a fat penguin...!

[@SASTSimon]

3:09 THATS OOMF

[@kviys]

HELLO SIMON

[@SASTSimon]

@@kviys hey

[@AbdullahBasit24]

I love how 2015 and wholesome Thio's videos feel

[@FireFox2590]

I just learned to do this now so thank you

[@Tegarcs142]

0:53 not META-INF inside custom rom android btw

[@mrdiamond64]

That is cool and all but what happened to the April Fools videos you always make? 😢

[@pizzabossxd]

the april fools joke was that there wont be an april fools video 💀

[@ThioJoe]

I couldn’t think of a funny enough idea 😔

[@Noahscratch493]

@@ThioJoe :( Sad you couldn't thing of any Ideas...

[@cdredstone]

@@pizzabossxd that’s a good idea unironically

[@mctogo001]

​@@ThioJoe its ok.

[@that1guyinthebackoftheroom717]

Nice to see how it wasnt Lebron who told me this but a random teammate I got in Overwatch, been rocking my 144hz for 5 years now and I can say it really does make a difference.

[@orionalbeniz9945]

Didn't expect to see an Undertale meme with that format, what a pleasant surprise

[@HuntingKingYT]

Freaking had this monitor for like a year and a half without enabling 144hz How come I be all this time with... 240

[@likebot.]

I could never have heard of this on Twitter before today. Never heard of the meme either. I learned of it, and the meme, on KZbin just now.

[@SmolFemboyShark]

I had my first laptop for a few months now and this video of a meme got me to change my settings

[@Khantia]

I actually learned about this from another meme video on YT. But I had to set it back to 60 Hz soon after. Having 2 monitors - one at 144 and one at 60 doesn't work well. When you have YT open on one and twitch (for example) open on the other, some "bleed" effects happen - the high refresh rate monitor flickers with frames from the other video and it looks awful. Games I play automatically set the refresh rate to 144 Hz tho, when they are played in fullscreen :P

[@Boetacular100]

4:03 THIOJOE SWEARING??!!??!!??!? HOLY MOLY!!!!

[@JohanAdrian]

He's just reported-speech-swearing so, it's fine.

[@HeliosBeats]

this is nothing, you should have seen him reading hate comments 13 years ago

[@lominero5]

4:53 Mine was set correctly, but I still don't notice a significant difference. I often just set my games to cap at 60fps and bump up the beauty!

[@hundredfireify]

Based

[@greatwavefan397]

I'm at a point where I'll likely get an HD CRT to optimize the smoothness of games capped at 60 FPS. Edit: The highest progressive signal they usually accept is 720p, which is still widely supported by games.

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@greatwavefan397 even if your game doesn't support your crts lower resolution, you can enable dsr and that will downsample higher res back to your monitors supported res by your gpu.

[@egokhanturk]

60fps is disgusting

[@erintyres3609]

When I replaced my CRT television years ago, the exciting new flat screen didn't look much better. I soon learned that channel 5 was plain old NTSC resolution, and channel 705 was the same content in High Definition.

[@tntblower]

this makes me so happy

[@Tech-187]

3:10 BRO SAID FRENCH 3:07 Based

[@mouseking7220]

1:21 endermanch

[@geschmaxneutral]

Every time i see such video, I always look it up again, even tho I did the setting since day one

[@sammy_wills]

Hearing him say Jif felt like a flashbang 💀

[@mjc0961]

Heck, just a few days ago my computer decided "hey what if we dropped the refresh rate from 144 Hz back to 60 Hz" and I immediately noticed how awful scrolling looked and put it back. I really wish Windows (or the graphics driver updates) would stop doing that.

[@DragonMaster9595]

Does changing your refresh rate work in India?

[@raylopez99]

Yes but not Australia, at the bottom of the world. ;)

[@gatto_furry]

It's not a country thing... I'm an idiot, that was the joke.

[@yshaalan2011]

Is this a question?

[@equilibrum999]

Does it work in the Land of the Thunder Dragon?

[@Grass_rock-kb7gi]

Are you seriously asking this??

[@TheGreatBackUpVIDEOS]

This reminds me of an issue I have with my Windows PC where sometimes it will just reset my monitor's refresh rate back to 60, and it only goes up to 75 but I absolutely notice it and it is frustrating fixing it every time.

[@Seamed]

A friend of mine had a similar thing, "Lebron James reortedly forgot to click the type-moon logo tsukihime title screen to unlock bonus scenes", his meme blew up and now it's way more common knowledge. He's still hiding another button since then lol

[@TonyP9279]

This was a big deal on CRT-based monitors as the flicker of a 60 Hz was unbearable. I never really paid much attention to this on newer monitors.

[@marcusaureliusf]

Yeah a CRT at 60 Hz was flicker hell. I needed at least 72 or 75 Hz. An LCD at 60 Hz is usable tho. It's not high-end but doesn't cause headaches at least.

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

Impulse based displays had better motion handling but were hellish for eyesight. Sample-and-hold terrible TN low-res monitors of the late 2000's were literally a sight for sore eyes.

[@Sekir80]

True. I fondly remember the times of the early 2000s when most of those gotten replaced so I could get a 21" Trinitron running at 1600x1200@85Hz. That was a pleasant watch.

[@Mega-tl8vv]

0:45 Did you just call a GIF a JIF??????

[@sussdood]

he did

[@bricoschmoo1897]

That is a very hard way to learn about this hahaha. At least now more people can use their stuff at their max potential !

[@sebbog]

I just learned this now after multiple years.

[@user-od4gs3iu4t]

I'm just fine with my 60 Hz. But I remember the times when the refresh rate did matter. It was with CRT types of monitors

[@mapl3mage]

were CRT monitors really that bad?

[@greatwavefan397]

afaik 60Hz on a CRT TV isn't as bothersome as 60Hz on a CRT monitor

[@user-od4gs3iu4t]

if I remember the numbers correctly, 100 Hz CRT monitor looked much better than 50/60 Hz. And low refresh rate was really looking bad, it was noticeably blinking

[@jdilksjr]

@@mapl3mage When used under fluorescent lights, yes.

[@raffriff42]

Because you could kill a CRT monitor with the wrong refresh rate (and/or size - it had something to do with the high voltage transformer running at horizontal frequency, which was height x refresh)

[@Garnovich]

3:10 that's not french lol

[@XDnamelesss]

he literally corrected it at 3:10 ☠

[@ThebedwarsEditmaker]

its spanish

[@HenrikMyrhaug]

When building my first computer, I watched so many videos about things to do/ settings to change on your new PC, and I don't think I would have ever known about it otherwise. You would think that a nearly 40 year old software would have incorporated basic things like automatically selecting monitor refresh rate. When a monitor is advertized at a particular refresh rate, you would think you could just plug it in, and it would use that refresh rate. Same for RAM frequency.

[@Keaton42]

3 years..... thank you

[@somerandomguy001]

This meme is the funniest shit I've ever seen

[@hundredfireify]

The proof most people don't actually NEED more than 60hz on their monitors.

[@HyperNova808]

Just because people don’t need it, doesn’t necessarily always mean they can’t have it

[@xiarno3373]

For the Minecraft one 1:00, this was back in the old days of modding Minecraft. The good old time.

[@AkariTheImmortal]

My second monitor that can only do 60hz is set to 72hz. I couldn't squeeze out any more. My main one was set correctly, because when I got this laptop, the first thing I did was go through everything. But it's definitely noticeable if you compare 60hz to 144hz. Probably with higher refresh rates as well, but I don't have any experience with those.

[@LostShadowGD]

0:45 IT'S GIF NOT JIF!

[@river559]

Incorrect

[@LostShadowGD]

also mine are 75hz, so I just use 60

[@mctogo001]

stop this stupid battle over pronounciations, honestly no one cares which is correct, they just use which one suites better for them

[@greatwavefan397]

​@@mctogo001 Okay but the GIF creator said it's pronounced like the peanut butter

[@river559]

@@mctogo001 Yes and no. People can say it however they want, I don't have an issue with that. But if the correct way deemed by the CREATOR of the format is pronouncing the G like a J, then THATS the correct way, plain and simple. There's no two ways around that. Arguing about that fact is like saying a parent is calling their kid by the wrong name even though that was the name they gave their kid. Again, you can pronounce it either way you want, but "jiff" is the official and correct way to do so.

[@Windows95-likes-old-tech]

0:45 its GIF, Graphics, not Jraphics. (heheheee im starting this again)

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

Self-Contained OOnderwater Breathing Apparatus?

[@Windows95-likes-old-tech]

@@icantcomeupwithnames469 nokia joystick kia coaster usb flash drive?

[@icantcomeupwithnames469]

@@Windows95-likes-old-tech If you couldn't figure it out, it's scuba. Scuba is also an initialism, and it is not pronounced using the starting sound of all its letters.

[@WhatIsTheHeat]

Yeah, no. That’s not how that works. And i say it like the a G

[@_kitaes_]

giraffic interchange format

[@Mizu_Melon]

I also didn't know this was a thing, so I checked mine to find out that the only option for me is 60. But I'm still glad I checked on the off chance that I could've been seeing things better!

[@qrzone8167]

I saw a similar meme about a year ago and also realized my refresh rate was never changed. I went from 60hz to 240 hz and the difference was so crazy that my eyes hurt all week trying to re-adjust.

[@Lampe2020]

Well, I have a cheap Samsung monitor that goes up to 75Hz, and back when I used the Unity DE I used xrandr to set it to 75Hz when I logged in (it somehow forgot it again on logout). I just checked in my KDE settings (I moved to KDE on Wayland a few months ago) and it's set to 75Hz.

[@fizixx]

I learned it from this video! However my refresh rate setting was OKAY! But once again, thank you Joe!

[@blanknam3d]

About importing a GIF into Vegas Pro: For whatever reason, even in the more recent versions, not only does it have a high tendency to be awfully slow at processing animated GIFs but it's also very likely to crash. I last used MVP 17 & had that issue, wouldn't be surprised if they still haven't fixed its GIF compatibility lol

[@azideiaman]

Honestly even knowing about that, I got this situation lmao My monitor reseted to 60hz after an update and took me some time to figure out why I was getting screen tearing and limited to 60fps in games. Not only freesync got turned off but thos setting was also at 60hz

[@androidlogin3065]

Sometimes i downgrade the refresh rate down to 60Hz or also down to 30Hz, for example for text documents on an USB monitor, so it does not take too much CPU, to read text on screen there is no need for a high refresh rate. But when i need to do modificatins to the text i set 60Hz (as minimun) on USB monitors... for typing text 30Hz is a pain. Mostly if the monitor is VGA with an USB yo VGA adapter.

[@Inglan]

4:33 you could also do something on the osd. I've seen something like that for screen resolution not set correctly

[@glitchy_weasel]

This meme got me to double-check just to make sure it was right xd

[@timehunter9467]

I could tell I difference when I used my dad’s old monitor as an extra screen. It wasn’t as high as 144Hz because it was seriously old, but next to my laptop’s built in display it was nuts.

[@jesusplayscraft]

I set mine as soon as I got it. 165 hz and I love how smooth it is

[@NULUSIOS]

Wasn't aware of the meme (the thread nor the specific one). But it did take me a few weeks to realize my (then - years back) 144Hz monitor did NOT default to 144 and I had to set it.

[@IDontModWTFz]

I love how Thio went from troll tech help to literal tech help

[@rx58000]

I have upgraded 2 monitors in past 5 years and it picked the highest refreshrate by itself, my old monitor is with my brother. When I hooked it up to his laptop the 2nd monitor was working at correct refresh rate despite laptop being 60hz. Even When I do DDU and re install drivers, it picks correct refreshrate after GPU drivers are installed. I've never really understood 60 Hz thing