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by jolmg 971 days ago
> There might be a possible benefit from the lack of light flickering from AC-driven electric lights, but that is only true if the space is daylit.

The change isn't from AC-driven lighting to non-AC-driven lighting. It's the other way around. I'm seeing a regular AC-driven lightbulb above the screen. Monitor backlights are DC-driven.

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Thanks for the correction, my understanding of electricity is shaky, and I was assuming everything connected to a wall outlet is AC-driven, unless there's a boxy inverter along the cord like a laptop, but you're correct, that's not neccessarily correct and monitors are DC-driven.
Just to be pedantic, they are driven by a pwm. But the frequency is orders of magnitude higher than 60Hz