That totally looks like a tiring solution. I never do that but put the main display (which is an external monitor of my laptop) parallel to the keyboard and my laptop to the side so I will be facing forward naturally.
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#122Genuinely curious but why would people put 2 displays side by side so that your neck would always be bent to a side? That totally looks like a tiring solution. I never do that but put the main display (which is an external monitor of my laptop) parallel to the keyboard and my laptop to the side so I will be facing forward naturally.
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#123Got to mention that you can use your tablet on Linux GNOME DE not only for terminal: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/06/use-ipad-as-second-monit... . Still waiting for even better solution, like streaming games to such second tablet "monitor".
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#124Genuinely curious but why would people put 2 displays side by side so that your neck would always be bent to a side? That totally looks like a tiring solution. I never do that but put the main display (which is an external monitor of my laptop) parallel to the keyboard and my laptop to the side so I will be facing forward naturally.
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#125Genuinely curious but why would people put 2 displays side by side so that your neck would always be bent to a side? That totally looks like a tiring solution. I never do that but put the main display (which is an external monitor of my laptop) parallel to the keyboard and my laptop to the side so I will be facing forward naturally.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the Readme, their eventual plan for the project is to be able to serve the client through the web browser which would mean that almost all tablets would be supported.
Didn't Apple drop support for old iOS devices so they can't access the web anymore. Safari is useless even for local sites I believe.
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#127On a similar note, you can use your old phone as a Streamdeck alternative using TouchPortal [1]. It's not free, but it won't cost you much and it works surprisingly well. [1] https://www.touch-portal.com/
According to the video I'm currently listening to, it only has a Linux client currently, but has Windows and Linux hosts.
Edit: I've played with this a bit with a surface pro running Linux as a client and Windows as host and the thing holding it back at this moment is lack of plugins. I use Stream Deck to manage my gaming sessions (Steam, Discord, Voicemod soundboard and voices, occassionally OBS, game launches, etc.) and as-is for my purposes this can really only manage OBS and things that have configured hotkeys.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can plug a USB HDMI capture dongle into tablets and do this. Any webcam viewer would probably work to view it, though there's dedicated apps intended for this like https://orion.tube/ on iPad. I know there's options on Android but don't have a modern android tablet to test them.
Do you know how come that app doesn’t work on the IPhone 15 Pro? I don’t have the iPad, but just recently got the 15 Pro, and it’s able to do a bunch of things via the usbc port (wired Ethernet, SD card reading, driving a Pro Display XDR etc), but I wasn’t able to do something like that Orion app is showing. Was thinking of pretty much same use case as shown in the app, where I could plug in an external camera and us…
The developer says the 15 and 15 Pro are only missing software, the hardware is capable:
> I’m sad to say that we’ve confirmed with Apple that it will not be working with the iPhone 15. But this can be fixed in software, so feel free to file a feedback request for UVC support on iOS!
https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/16qzdtx/hi_reddit_we...
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know how come that app doesn’t work on the IPhone 15 Pro? I don’t have the iPad, but just recently got the 15 Pro, and it’s able to do a bunch of things via the usbc port (wired Ethernet, SD card reading, driving a Pro Display XDR etc), but I wasn’t able to do something like that Orion app is showing. Was thinking of pretty much same use case as shown in the app, where I could plug in an external camera and us…
I know, I'd love to use my phone as a display via capture card so I don't have to carry a portable monitor to troubleshoot headless boxes. The developer says the 15 and 15 Pro are only missing software, the hardware is capable: > I’m sad to say that we’ve confirmed with Apple that it will not be working with the iPhone 15. But this can be fixed in software, so feel free to file a feedback request for UVC support on i…
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#130Macos has the built in with sidecar. Just attach an ipad and select it as the external display
Sidecar is very glitchy for anything but casual use.