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I have seen an occasional iMac set up in the coffee shop...
Travelling with 24” Monitors
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Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Note there are right now fairly cheap 8k 55" TVs (Samsung Q900 series), and LG is releasing 48" 4k OLED TV soon. But I agree that these are way too large for working with text. Regarding ergonomics, here are some obvious improvements: 1. A motorized sit/stand desk. Stand up every hour, or whenever you feel like stretching. 2. A decent chair: Leap and Embody are the best (I tried many). 3. High refresh rate monitors.…
I definitely respect and align myself with your workstation hygiene arrangements but maybe not on every detail.
> anything less than 4k on 27" monitor looks like crap I run closer to 1.5K of native definition on a 30" monitor. I find this is very good and doesn't require any fancy tuning in applications or the OS's. I have the panel mounted as low as possible so that I don't have to tip my head back too much to look at the top.
I don't listen to music or podcasts while I work, I found I concentrate better in silence. I also have a door I can close when people are talking BS in the hallway, so my stomach doesn't scrunch up at the falsehoods. The speakers that play the mail alert were bought as cheap as possible at BestBuy.
I have the privilege of being able to carry out all this largely at employer's expense and I don't waste it.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#233I've travelled with a single 27" iMac, which wasn't much of a problem, but it's a shame that Apple removed the "Target Display" mode [0] from the newer 5K/Retina iMacs. What the hell? That would have been perfect, to have a lighter MacBook or even the newer USB-C iPad Pro for outdoors, with the 27" at the hotel, without having to sync data before working on the bigger screen. Or to host a visitor's Mac. But no, now y…
IIRC it was removed because neither the TCON or the external ports could process the LVDS or eDP streams that the internal connection uses. The old way was very simple because you practically just mux'ed the eDP to either the inside port or the outside one. I suppose you could do it with two TB3 connections now. But that makes it a whole lot more complex than just a mux and some support parts.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I'll give that a try later, although I think mine is hardware limited. It's probably because it's a cheap knockoff one tho, but it works for terminal use, or anything that has a high contrast.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#235During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there
If one is bored living in Paris, the problem isn't Paris.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#236I've travelled with a single 27" iMac, which wasn't much of a problem, but it's a shame that Apple removed the "Target Display" mode [0] from the newer 5K/Retina iMacs. What the hell? That would have been perfect, to have a lighter MacBook or even the newer USB-C iPad Pro for outdoors, with the 27" at the hotel, without having to sync data before working on the bigger screen. Or to host a visitor's Mac. But no, now y…
IIRC it was removed because neither the TCON or the external ports could process the LVDS or eDP streams that the internal connection uses. The old way was very simple because you practically just mux'ed the eDP to either the inside port or the outside one. I suppose you could do it with two TB3 connections now. But that makes it a whole lot more complex than just a mux and some support parts.
I figured it may have something to do with the different internal circuitry for driving the massive 5K wide-color screen, but I would have settled for some kind of adapter, no matter how bulky. Anything really to save me from buying an standalone screen just for my MacBook.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is one of those concepts that is obviously going to be great when it's ready for prime-time, but just isn't there yet. In a generation or two when the headsets are lighter (can be worn for a day without leaving an impression on your face as the current headsets do) and higher resolution (can actually replace a multi-monitor setup in number of pixels), I strongly believe this is going to be a killer app that coul…
> if you can touchtype fluently then VR works fine, but if not, it's going to be challenging to use. Couldn't you just render the keyboard (+ finger positions I guess) inside the VR.
FWIW Simula (shown above) has a mouse & keyboard view. Here's a short video showing what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5c3Hfp8Hcw
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
Monitors will also have PC inputs (DisplayPort, HDMI, VGA), unlike inexpensive 43 inch TVs.
Every TV has HDMI nowadays. VGA is pretty common on older HDTVs. I’ve seen Mini DP on a nicer recent one too.
DisplayPort is uncommon enough on 4k TVs that none of the 4k TVs reviewed on rtings have DisplayPort inputs[0]. In contrast, the several years old 43 inch monitor I'm using has two DisplayPort ports.
Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors
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> (2) if yes, can I just rent them wherever I'm headed, Sounds like there's a very boring but likely profitable business waiting to be spawned here. The fact that there isn't an obvious choice for renting electronic goods for digital nomads on the go is a pretty big flag.
They exist and they are horribly expensive. Last time I was setting up a recruiting booth and it was cheaper to buy a display from Walmart than it was to rent one. And I was able to return it to Walmart at the end, too.
I'm surprised that it's so expensive -- would you mind giving some pointers to the companies you looked into if you remember any of them?
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#240"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 this as saying he doesn't really have any close friends who are local.
That might not apply to you, but it's not really something to criticize the author for.