Hardware hacking! I’ve had this ultrawide monitor for about 5 years now (I split the screen in 3 when using it, and love it). But these monitors have a known issue: if you don’t use them for a while, then they get the “black screen” where the monitor is registered as a display, but refuses to show any output. I didn’t want to give up on it, so I took to the internet. Thanks to a blog I stumbled upon, and some spare time: I removed the overzealous thermistor that gets sad when it registers any temperature after prolonged idle time (like someone taking a break between jobs…). Voila! A functioning monitor again. Blog: https://sayou.biz/article/how-to-fix-samsung-g9-black-screen