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Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by 23andwalnut »

codetrotter wrote: post #48
codingdave wrote: post #14

I used to code with that type of setup, with multiple large monitors. But a few months back, I switched to a single 43" UHD TV instead. I get more screen real estate that I did before, have fewer cables to deal with, and have less of a mental paradigm shift when I do travel and shrink down to just one laptop screen. As soon as someone invents a way to fold or roll up a 40+ inch screen, I'll buy it.

Back in January of 2019 I bought a 55" UHD TV that I used as my main monitor for a few months. Ultimately, I found that 55" was too big for me relative to the distance that I was sitting from the screen. Currently I am back to using a 27" PC monitor with 2560x1440 resolution. I use this same monitor both when I use my desktop computer and when I use my laptop. In the latter case I have the additional monitor of the l…

I also tried a 55" UHD and found it too big. I scaled down to a 49" on a rolling tv stand and it's perfect for me. I have some distance between myself and the screen though. ~6"

I really wish there was a way for me to travel with this setup :/

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by BearOso »

codetrotter wrote: post #48
codingdave wrote: post #14

I used to code with that type of setup, with multiple large monitors. But a few months back, I switched to a single 43" UHD TV instead. I get more screen real estate that I did before, have fewer cables to deal with, and have less of a mental paradigm shift when I do travel and shrink down to just one laptop screen. As soon as someone invents a way to fold or roll up a 40+ inch screen, I'll buy it.

Back in January of 2019 I bought a 55" UHD TV that I used as my main monitor for a few months. Ultimately, I found that 55" was too big for me relative to the distance that I was sitting from the screen. Currently I am back to using a 27" PC monitor with 2560x1440 resolution. I use this same monitor both when I use my desktop computer and when I use my laptop. In the latter case I have the additional monitor of the l…

> 3. In the RGB components of each individual pixels, there was one of them that dominated too much. I think it was the red component but I don't quite remember. To combat this I adjusted the settings quite a bit, and even reduced the saturation heavily. Still it felt sort of strange.

You wear glasses, don’t you? Changing the settings won’t help that much. An LCD can’t block all the light coming through, and wide gamut backlights are typically much wider on red vs sRGB. Glasses will cause chromatic aberration and exaggerate the difference.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

dannyw wrote: post #20
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

I would have thought TSA would "x-ray" (or whatever it is they do) through your bag and pull you off to the side for further investigation super quickly.

The TSA misses about 95% of guns, so chances are you’ll be fine.

Is this for checked bags or carry on bags? I thought we literally walk through metal detectors?

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by ygggvg »

I would find it much more interesting on how often he travels while working. Findings. Affordable place and internet and how it feels.

There has to be a huge advantage building such a weird thing over just going on holiday without all that crap

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by mynegation »

eqvinox wrote: post #49
nickjj wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's surprising at how little this matters. I came back from a tech event once with a build a robot kit, except I'm a very light packer and the box was huge so I had to take everything out and fit it into a backpack along with everything else I had. I had a compartment that had an assortment of circuit boards, screws, wires, plastic pieces, etc.. No one even batted an eye and the bag went straight through the carry o…

A friend once forgot a bare PCB TV-b-gone in a coat pocket while traveling EU to US. He noticed it right at the first checkpoint. They asked what it is, laughed at the response, and went "eh, as long as there are no wires dangling off it, we don't care." He stuffed it in a bag and had no further issues. Why the wires would've made a difference is beyond me...

You obviously don’t watch Tv shows like 24. Wires is something you stick into the explosive.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by garblegarble »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #53
dannyw wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The TSA misses about 95% of guns, so chances are you’ll be fine.

Is this for checked bags or carry on bags? I thought we literally walk through metal detectors?

In carry-on bags - bags go through an x-ray machine with an operator looking at so many negatives that it's next to impossible for them to spot a positive case.

Schneier has a nice piece about it in an excerpt from one of his books: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/failures_of_a...

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by capableweb »

csomar wrote: post #36
seungjulee wrote: post #16

Why do you even need 3 monitors? That seems excessive.

If you are doing web dev, it's literally a must. One screen to type code, one screen for the browser, and one screen for the browser webdev tools. Sometimes I wish I have a forth screen for the documentation.

It's really not a "must". Most of time it's a "nice to have", but trust me, lots of people do web dev with single screens and are as/more efficient than you with multiple screens. In fact, your efficiency has nothing to do with how many monitors you have.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by netsharc »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

I would have thought TSA would "x-ray" (or whatever it is they do) through your bag and pull you off to the side for further investigation super quickly.

He forgot step 0 of the How-To: be generically non-threatening. (White or East-Asian, no beards).
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