• psud@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    5 is so much office work, one portrait for reading, one landscape for everything else

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    6 days ago

    1000015003

    Since then I’ve upgraded the laptop so it actually runs on all screens. And I can switch to the desktop with a KVM.

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    6 days ago

    Modeling and CAD generally require up to 4 monitors.

    1. App
    2. App submenus and subwindows
    3. Redlines/markups/notes
    4. Optional. Emails, file browsing, screen share, manuals.

    Though I’d say working with complicated apps regularly will give you a mental illness, so fair.

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      I don’t do modeling or anything, but don’t workspaces (virtual desktops) work better? Mostly to avoid moving your head so much around 4 screens. I would think so anyway but i dunno

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        I work with redlines and you need to have them open on another screen while you’re making edits unless you like torturing yourself.

        You can print out redlines and look at pen and paper markups which works great but it has negatives like printing a set of 20 page 22x34 drawings can be costly to plot and annoying to go through sheet by sheet

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    6 days ago

    Lets be real, 4 and 8 are “Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our tiling window managers” 99% the time in practice.

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    7 days ago

    What’s wrong with #8? Looks like a normal trader setup to me.

    My setup is off the charts, tho, as usual.

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      Also, train dispatchers, power grid managers etc. Infrastructure control of any sort. On second thought, maybe they also have an extra keyboard/console (#16).

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        7 days ago

        Ah so all the control freaks and the “tell me more about you and by that I mean tell me more about why you love the MTA system map” kinda crowd, I see.

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    7 days ago

    The keyboard position of 3 and 13 implies that one would stare directly at the gap where the monitors meet. I hope nobody does that.

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      All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.

      I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it…

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    The only thing mental is putting up with all of these seams. If you’re not in a tactical environment that requires this – say for being able to set up and move on the fly – then just get a big ass monitor. They’re life changing.

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      6 days ago

      Easier to move windows around using the windows+arrow keys this way. Easier to share screen this way. Easier to switch context this way.

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        6 days ago

        You can set up your own windows snap patterns and you can share windows instead of full screens.

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          Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.

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    My GIS rig is different than any of those.

    Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.

    Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.

    I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it’s a big TV on the wall of my office that’s usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I’m meeting with people in my office.

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    I’m none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.

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    I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.

    Get bent, fucking casuals!