Sounds like an amazing way how to get picked up by customs every other time you cross an international border.
Travelling with 24” Monitors
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#222As a Mac user, the best nomadic setup is a MacBook and an iPad. I can’t think of a more practical dual monitor setup to travel with.
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#223I've traveled with smaller monitors before (Asus Zenscreen) and that might be a better compromise. Theyre basically the size of my MBP but thinner, so they're easy to stuff in a backpack. Only cables you need are one USB-C each. It's heavier than traveling with jib a laptop, but probably not much heavier than my MBP was by itself 10 years ago. And you can triple your screen real estate
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#224"I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a place that I know but I need ... three 24 inches monitors an external GPU and an ergonomic keyboard." Does anyone else have a hard time coming to grips with this prioritization? Even looking at this objectively with something like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, yes we do need friends, though 3 24" monitors don't seem to appear.
I interpreted it as a joke from somebody who is particularly focused on computers but also has a pretty good sense of humor about it
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#225Working in VR allows you to travel with an infinite number of monitors, of any size you prefer. For example here is what it's like to work in a Linux VR Desktop on the HTC Vive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI The problem is that plug-in headsets like the Vive are not very portable. The next evolution of something like this is to put the Linux VR Desktop on a standalone headset. If anyone is interested in…
As others have said, current tech isn't quite there yet to replace screens in meatspace, but I think it's obvious to infer what general computing may be like 10-20 years down the road, if progress continues at a steady pace: Laptops and tablets would no longer be distinct factors for mobile, because they'll be replaced by always-worn high quality AR glasses, which run off a phone in your pocket (as Apple's glasses ar…
I'm looking forward to video feed wallpaper.
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#226I also used to take a massive efficiency hit when I had to move away from my multi-monitor setup. I wanted to be more flexible so I invested some time in getting comfortable with a tiling window manager.
My weapon of choice is Xmonad on Linux but I've also used i3 and awesomewm and they've been good. I hear good things about Amethyst on OSX these days too.
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#227For travel I always brought one of these as us zenscreen https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ZenScreen-MB16AC-Portable-Monito... they are powered off the USB.
I bought one of those as well, although it was a knockoff brand, it's great when travelling since it's about the same size as my MacBook. I wish I invested slightly more, the brightness on mine is terrible.
Not sure if this will help, but with my USB-C monitor the default brightness/contrast is poor, and requires manually fiddling with the settings on every boot/resume from sleep, so I found a Linux utility that does the fiddling for me:
cat ~/bin/brightness
#!/bin/bash
#
echo "increasing brightness/contrast of external monitor"
/usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 10 40
/usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 12 10
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#228https://i.imgur.com/RUN11Hb.jpg
Dell (IIRC) used to have a portable workstation that when closed was basically a briefcase, with the hinge as the handle... After a bit of digging, the XPS M2010 20" entertainment 'laptop' released in 2006.
SUN used to have the SPARKstation Voyager which was meant to be a portable desktop as well.
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#229I 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.
How far do you sit from the TV? How near or far is comfortable compared to a monitor that fits on your desk. I'm contemplating a similar setup.
I'm sitting about 2 feet from one right now.
The dot pitch is about the same as a 22" 1080p or 27" 1440p monitor, so really it's like having 4 1080p displays but with no bezels and a much smaller desk footprint.
It's great, cheaper than those ultrawide displays but with more resolution at the top of the screen for music players, email, etc. The built in TV speakers are more or less the same as desktop speakers but with no extra space.
Having a large 16:9 format display is also a million times better for games and fullscreen video.
My only complaints are that the refresh rate is limited to 60fps and the display lag is 20ms. I'll probably upgrade when HDMI adaptive sync becomes more commonplace.
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#230Creative solution, nicely done. For 15 years I traveled with some flavor of 23"/24" monitor, putting it into my checked bag, and paying that checked bag fee over and over and over (probably $5K USD over the years). This year I scrapped the big monitor setup and got an ultra lightweight 16" USB-C powered monitor along with a Dell Precision 5540. Now I just stuff everything into an REI Trail pack (40L) and walk on the…
What is your job where you travel with an external monitor?
These days mostly work in Scala and TypeScript. Just another web developer that works on the road, basically.