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Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by JoshTriplett »

greggsy wrote: post #105
bobowzki wrote: post #84

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I would love to see a photo of this setup.

I just scrolled through half a dozen ATC tower tour videos on YouTube and didn't see any skewed displays, but it's possible that they 1) they tidied it up for the tour, or 2) they just didn't apply this approach in those particular sites. I'm still very interested to see this novel application.

This was more than a decade ago, and they may have moved to a different approach since then. At the time of the tour I took, ultra-widescreen monitors didn't exist.

IIRC it was a large Wacom or similar display.

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Post by JoshTriplett »

bun_terminator wrote: post #118
JoshTriplett wrote: post #92

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OLED often isn't RGB, and you gain a great deal there.

I think it's completely orthogonal issues, no? You probably refer to OLEDs superior black levels etc. But this thread was about subpixel rendering. One can be bad while the other can not. It's unrelated.

They're related because many OLEDs use a non-RGB pixel layout, so it's necessary to turn off sub-pixel anti-aliasing, and the net result seems worth that tradeoff now that screens are high-resolution enough that sub-pixel anti-aliasing makes less of a difference.

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Post by leptons »

bhouston wrote: post #177

I just purchased a 48" monitor as my primary monitor. No need to worry about rotation, I just have a massive screen in front of me. I think that for some people people are scared of large monitors in front of them, but once you use one, you realize that using small monitors (e.g. 27 or 32") in single or dual or triple arrangements is just ridiculous complex. One big monitor is way way better. Large monitors are the f…

I'm waiting for an 8k curved 55" screen. Has to be curved.

I'm currently using three 4k 32" screens in portrait, which is equivalent to about a 55" single screen.

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Post by cylinder714 »

user_7832 wrote: post #48
cylinder714 wrote: post #40

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Eizo made a 1920x1920 display that I think has been discontinued; a very good review: https://youtu.be/gJG9HOQITrg The LG DualUp is an almost-square 16:18 monitor, higher resolution than the Eizo and almost half the price.

Thanks for the review link of the monitor, don’t think I’d seen one yet! I’ve got my eye out the LG one, but unfortunately it’s still a little out of my student budget. I hope to get it soon, fingers crossed!

I checked this morning, and LG is selling it for USD$600, $100 off:

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

And Google is showing prices from other retailers as low as $500.

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Post by walteweiss »

nbenitezl wrote: post #217
andix wrote: post #138

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I don't get the point of a lot of monitors. My current setup is a 4K 32" 16:9, which I do 98% of my work on. Everything on one big screen. I have another monitor next to it, which I sometimes use for to put documentation on, a hot reloading web app I'm working on, maybe a video I'm watching while doing some work, or a video conference while I'm screen sharing. But turning my head to the secondary monitor is too much…

I also have similar single monitor (a BENQ EW3270U) set to 200% scale. I use Linux, and my productivity is good by binding F1 to F5 keys to switch to different virtual desktops. F1 -> Terminals. (Wezterm showing 4 terminals in a 2x2 grid) F2 -> Code editor or IDE. Sublime Text in my case. F3 -> Internet Browser. Firefox with Container extension. F4 -> File Manager or any other misc apps. F5 -> unused I'm so used to t…

I do that as well, and I’m on a MacBook Pro. So when I’m on MacBook Pro that has macOS, well, that’s funny, as it takes some time to remember what macOS is and how I had been using it before.

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Post by lanternfish »

Y_Y wrote: post #268
mrblampo wrote: post #255

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Made me laugh out loud

One day such a thing might be so common that society will be forced to invent an abbreviation for that

And maybe even one day, the abbreviation will become so ubiquitous that it becomes divorced in practice from the original referent.

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Post by graypegg »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #279
fudged71 wrote: post #272

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There was a “spinning gaming monitor” on my YouTube feed just a few days ago: https://youtu.be/J6P3o6zrqsc?si=NUB7YviQNYoSW7Vi

Neat, but imagine the sheer fear factor of a 34" ultrawide monitor whipping around at 60Hz 18" in front of your face!

Adrenaline is good for gaming!… I bet?

If you have it going 3600rpm for 60hz uh… θ axis refresh rate (?), you have a pretty tough monitor. Now I’m wondering if you could mount it to 2 really fast linear actuators perpendicularly attached each other. One connected to the desk vertically, and the other fixed to it, with its business end mounted to the monitor.

Now (considering the monitor doesn’t explode from the inertia) you could tile an area larger than the monitor itself. Could even adjust on the fly, so you can drag a window off the screen and it just starts vibrating more and more violently.

Re: Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

graypegg wrote: post #288
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #279

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Neat, but imagine the sheer fear factor of a 34" ultrawide monitor whipping around at 60Hz 18" in front of your face!

Adrenaline is good for gaming!… I bet? If you have it going 3600rpm for 60hz uh… θ axis refresh rate (?), you have a pretty tough monitor. Now I’m wondering if you could mount it to 2 really fast linear actuators perpendicularly attached each other. One connected to the desk vertically, and the other fixed to it, with its business end mounted to the monitor. Now (considering the monitor doesn’t explode from the inert…

Yes, that sounds truly terrifying! :)

Combination of vibrations and actuators fighting the gyroscopic effect of the off-axis spinning monitor would risk the whole thing violently ripping itself off the desk.

Would certainly be exciting!

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Post by Arrath »

joshspankit wrote: post #168
williamdclt wrote: post #110

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I always thought that moving my head to look at another monitor isn’t really faster than pressing a key to make my fullscreen terminal appear, especially if we start taking cursor hunting into account

Another thing that would be nice if it was easy to make: a button to place the cursor where you’re looking.

I've always wanted window focus to go where I'm looking, it would be so nice.

Probably with a modifier key though so I don't move out of a game just to read a wiki page though.

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