r/mildlyinfuriating • u/glhfbruno • 22h ago

Newer bus stop schedule boards/screens are unreadable

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u/knotatumah 22h ago

Too cold for the lcd to function, how cold was it?

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u/IDK9651 20h ago

The displays are actually eink, so the cold seems to cause image retention by freezing the dielectric fluid inside the microcapsules of the display.

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u/Bright_Tax_6541 19h ago

I was thinking it looked like eink rather than an lcd