I second the Logitech MX Ergo "thumb ball mouse". Once you're transferred your mouse motor skills to this (takes about two hours) you'll never go back to a moving mouse. Especially, if you've got a sore shoulder, or elbow or wrist do yourself a favor and try one of these. (Full Disclosure I own no stock in Logitech, just a very happy customer of this product.)
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#112"Probably another macbook setup" "Oh, nope, lots of terminals." "Hey, is that i3?" Then I realized who the author was. Honestly: I tried i3 and it wasn't for me. The psychology of slightly overlapping windows (i.e. "just put this over here, out of the way but still visible" as a way of making a physical reminder for myself) is just too much part of my mental model to give up.
Have you tried stacking mode? The title bar will still be visible, while the window is out of the way. See it in action if you zoom into my monitor on https://michael.stapelberg.ch/Bilder/2020-05-22-desk-setup.j... That works for me, but I understand it’s not for everyone :)
Just another big thanks for i3, it has significantly changed my workflow for the better!
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#1138K monitor sounded ridiculous until I realized that's basically Retina @ 32-34"
...as if "retina", a marketing term, meant anything in particular other than "higher-than-usual density".
It does, actually. It’s supposed to describe a display where the individual pixels aren’t discernible at normal viewing distance
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#1148K monitor sounded ridiculous until I realized that's basically Retina @ 32-34"
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…
> Meanwhile, Linux has made the lives of 4k display owners unlivable due to the lack of non-integer scaling.
I had no problems at all setting 1.3 scaling in monitor settings (Fedora/Gnome 3)
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
...as if "retina", a marketing term, meant anything in particular other than "higher-than-usual density".
It does, actually. It’s supposed to describe a display where the individual pixels aren’t discernible at normal viewing distance
I prefer numbers and measurement units to trademarked, fuzzy descriptions of experiences. Since we're talking about display density, DPI is the term I want to see used.
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#1168K monitor sounded ridiculous until I realized that's basically Retina @ 32-34"
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…
I’m fine using a hidpi monitor with Linux but this is probably because I only really use about three programs:
- Chrome which you need to pass a command line arg with your (not necessarily integer) scaling factor
- emacs which just reads the dpi from xresources
- xmonad/xmobar which barely have user interfaces but where you can specify pixel sizes for fonts if they get it wrong.
- terminal emulator which I think just looks at xresources for dpi.
Maybe other programs don’t work so well.
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#117I second the Logitech MX Ergo "thumb ball mouse". Once you're transferred your mouse motor skills to this (takes about two hours) you'll never go back to a moving mouse. Especially, if you've got a sore shoulder, or elbow or wrist do yourself a favor and try one of these. (Full Disclosure I own no stock in Logitech, just a very happy customer of this product.)
Thirded :). I've switched (to its predecessor) over 10 years ago and never looked back. I even works perfectly well with hectic games after a bit of practice. Additionally I'm using keyboards without numpad to further reduce the distance reaching the "mouse".
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#118Why Kinesis doesn't produce higher quality build variant of its keyboard? One that doesn't feel like a flimsy/cheap plastic. It seems they are charging premium just for the layout and PCB.
I don’t think the advantage feels flimsy. Certainly I wouldn’t want to be hit around the head with one (but maybe this is a bad metric for “flimsy”). I think the premium is largely for the difficulty of putting all those keys in that 3d layout. I think the old advantage 1 had dome switches and was quite a similar price to the cherry-switch advantage 2. The maltron which also has a bowl shaped layout is also expensive. But also the only bit of the body of the keyboard you interact with is the rest for the heel of your hand and often people put something on these anyway (e.g. gel pads, tape to reduce slipping, ...) so it seems bad to optimise for it.
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#119My 2020 desk setup: a cushion, an empty book block and a board both in wood as support for my laptop. Haven't used a chair or a desk since ages
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#120I often get asked about my equipment too and wrote up my bill of materials. Surprised you're not using LED lights. Try them, you'll enjoy the upgrade. https://medium.com/p/bill-of-materials-for-my-home-office-f7...