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Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by whatever1 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

akvadrako wrote: post #59

whatever1 wrote: post #42

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It is so sad that for us not in the Apple Ecosystem it is impossible to find a desktop HiDPI display. We are stuck in 4k for the past 5 years. This Dell is the only "option", but I don't know how many of us can afford spending $5k on a monitor with a lifetime of ~ 3 years that has not shown great reliability. Meanwhile, Linux has made the lives of 4k display owners unlivable due to the lack of non-integer scaling. A…

This is just wrong. PCs work fine with 5K 27" displays like the LG Ultrafine 27MD5KA. Personally, I prefer the 5K2K 34" screens though like LG 34WK95U or MSI Prestige PS341WU.

LG does not support non apple software/hardware for that monitor. You can hack your PC with TB cards and special motherboards that support these cards to show signal, sometimes. This is far away from "works fine".

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by anotheryou » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

yay, a neo user.

If you have a keyboard programmable with QMK you can make the upper layers work in hardware too though (you still need to decide to which OS layout you want to map it)

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by dvnguyen » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

illuminated wrote: post #6

"I found that using only one monitor allows me to focus more on what I’m doing, and I don’t miss anything about a multi-monitor setup." This. I had the same realization maybe 7 or 8 years ago and it is true for me. With multiple monitors it's like moving your hands away from the keyboard all the time and looking for the mouse. Same happens for me while looking for anything across the 2 or 3 monitor setup. It just wea…

To to fair i3 is so good that having multiple becomes unnecessary. It's much faster to open a second or third window in the same screen than looking up to the other screen.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by iaskwhy » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

On switching peripherals between both work and home computers, I've been using for a few years now a UGREEN USB Switch. It's around £21 for the USB 2 version at the moment in the UK. So it's basically what the author uses but you connect both machines there and click a button to toggle between machines. On mine there's 4 ports only but maybe that's enough for most people - I'm only using half.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by safog » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

amarshall wrote: post #50

akudha wrote: post #26

That keyboard looks weird - maybe its because I haven't used it myself. Anyone used it? Can you share your experience?

I’ve used a Kinesis Advantage at work for 7 years now. Started after I began to get wrist discomfort once I started programming full-time. It’s been wonderful, and removal of the discomfort and pain is worth the $300 several times over. I bought one for home shortly after. It does take a bit to get used to typing on. It took a few days to get from 6 wpm to ~35 wpm, and about two weeks total to get to ~80 wpm. I can u…

I wish there was a way to try this keyboard without committing to buying it for a month or so. It seems like there will be a learning curve and you might not even like it at the end of it.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by phreeza » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

secure wrote: post #43

Youden wrote: post #40

How much performance are you able to get out of your router7 setup? If it's unable to saturate the gigabit, do you know where the bottleneck is?

It effortlessly satisfies a full gigabit, otherwise I wouldn’t stick with it :)

Do you have any experience with using it on "Crossover7" which I think is somehow the slightly less preferred offer from fiber7 that I have?

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by amarshall » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

safog wrote: post #65

amarshall wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve used a Kinesis Advantage at work for 7 years now. Started after I began to get wrist discomfort once I started programming full-time. It’s been wonderful, and removal of the discomfort and pain is worth the $300 several times over. I bought one for home shortly after. It does take a bit to get used to typing on. It took a few days to get from 6 wpm to ~35 wpm, and about two weeks total to get to ~80 wpm. I can u…

I wish there was a way to try this keyboard without committing to buying it for a month or so. It seems like there will be a learning curve and you might not even like it at the end of it.

Indeed. I was fortunate enough to have a coworker who had one and let me try it while they were on vacation.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by dkn775 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC

luckylion wrote: post #47

wenc wrote: post #13

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True for writing or any one-mode tasks. For dev work though, typically I need see multiple things simultaneously: input (IDE/editor), output (console/browser) and instrumentation (debugger etc.) I'm one-monitoring these days (WFH) because my laptop can't output to more than 1 display without a docking station -- I had left mine at the office. The context switching is tiring to say the least. I'm making do by tiling m…

I've come to love the ultrawide 34" format @3440x1440 for "I want things side by side". Most of these can work as multiple monitors and split the screen if you plug in two cables, but you'll obviously have zero gap between them.

Same, that's what I have been using for GIS work, media production, and some light coding. Only thing I regret is not being able to play Xbox games at 21:9 (unless you know of a way).

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by secure » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

phreeza wrote: post #66

secure wrote: post #43

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It effortlessly satisfies a full gigabit, otherwise I wouldn’t stick with it :)

Do you have any experience with using it on "Crossover7" which I think is somehow the slightly less preferred offer from fiber7 that I have?

I do not have any experience with it. My expectation would be that the IP network quality itself is good (provided by init7), and hopefully the underlying platform is stable and well-provisioned enough.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by secure » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

mhd wrote: post #56

That's a lot of money between screen and GPU just to get crisper fonts (as the rest of the GUI is scaled x3 and thus you don't get that much more screen real estate). Is this really worth it for you? I regularly switch between a 5k iMac and regular 1920x1200 display, and sure, I can see pixels, but I don't find myself caring that much.

Yes, I find myself caring a lot, hence the expensive gear :)