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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by nchmy »

kartoffelsaft wrote: post #28
antonvs wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Managing windows with OS idiosyncrasies becomes a task in itself. Tiling window managers are a good solution.

Tiling merely changes the idiosyncrasies, and I say this as someone who primarily uses them. (hyprland in my case) If you created a window right now, where will it go? Which window will it take its space from? Does it use your focused window? Your mouse position? If your WM supports mixed floating & tiling, how does it go when you flip a window between them? etc. That's all cognitive load when you aren't familiar and…

Yes, I tried a tiling window manager for about an hour and then stopped. It was absolute madness as the window size and positioning was seemingly random. I can't comprehend how anyone can use them

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by jaffa2 »

UnhappyMeaning wrote: post #30

I've tried every set up that I have the privilage of having: - 11in Macbook Air - 16in Macbook Pro - 1 X 27in monitor mounted with MB Pro in clamshell mode - Linux Mint desktop on old Dell Inspiron with 4gb of RAM and after using all of these to try and increase my productivity, I'm still an unfocused and possibly ADD riddled human. I'm not cut from the same cloth as my other productive peers who do not watch much Yo…

Better to proclaim on the internet that you are special and ADD than just doing the work. I mean, who even are you if you dont have an ‘ism of some sort these days? (Almost always self diagnosed)

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by t_mahmood »

petters wrote: post #112

> On a 34" ultrawide monitor, it was too easy to put YouTube running on the left side, and whatever else on the right. Yes, if you were doing that, almost any change to your environment that stops that will be good. I don't think you'd have to give up your monitor.

Yep, I just turn on the Leechblocker's lockdown mode which blocks all the distracting sites on my browser, I can focus on my work, without giving up any of my monitors, and all the advantages they provide me

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by layer8 »

petters wrote: post #112

> On a 34" ultrawide monitor, it was too easy to put YouTube running on the left side, and whatever else on the right. Yes, if you were doing that, almost any change to your environment that stops that will be good. I don't think you'd have to give up your monitor.

Switching to a non-ultrawide monitor might already have sufficed.

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by t_mahmood »

cookiengineer wrote: post #90
JSR_FDED wrote: post #89

I spent decades completely happy with Cmd+Tab. Now I’m helping someone develop a trading system and I need to see several log files simultaneously, a broker GUI, and neovim. Once I realized that in order to answer a single question I needed to Cmd+Tab at least four times, often more, I added two monitors and it’s dramatically lowered my stress level. FYI, on older MacBooks you can’t add more than one extra screen, bu…

The reason I love my old cheap 1080p monitors so much is because they need less organizational overhead compared to a large 4k monitor where you constantly have to fix UI scaling bugs and zoom in/out, force different fonts for shitty web pages etc. I am never gonna sway away from i3 [1], a notification free tiled window desktop system is just way too convenient. When I have to bootup a Windows VM for work (I am a mal…

And I love my multi monitor setup, because each monitor has its own set of app, and I can remove window switching by a lot.

I put my browser on 2k monitor so no need to fight with resolution and other things

but IDE is always on 4k monitor, no scaling, slightly larger font size, so I can see more code. And all the log, and note app are on 3rd 1080p monitor.

And Wayland gnome was pretty solid for me, until recently gnome-shell eating over 2/3gb on long run. Switched to niri for the time being, which is working pretty solid.

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by amunozo »

noduerme wrote: post #2

I've been a laptop purist most of my life, and prefer to work outside my house / office. Only recently I got a Big Monitor™ for a mini pc. It's really messed with my head. Now when I look at my 15" laptop everything looks incredibly small. Not just that, but the scroll direction is opposite on the pc, so if I'm working side by side I find myself accidentally scrolling each one backwards, or actually typing into the w…

Is the difference that big if you just have a bigger monitor but with the same information?

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by pdpi »

smallstepforman wrote: post #113
pdpi wrote: post #100

I'm on the other side of this one. Two 27" 4k displays (at 2x scaling, so logical 1080p), always with editor on one screen, and documentation on the other. This is true for programming (where editor = IDE and documentation = API docs for some thing or other), 3d modelling (where editor = CAD software, and documentation = reference drawings, diagrams, etc), and even gaming (where "editor" = Blue Prince, and "documenta…

At 27”, 2560x1440 withouth scaling is your better option vs UHD and x2 scaling. You need a pair of screens for true bliss.

It might be your better option, but it's not mine. I really value sharp text, and 4k@2x is vastly superior to 1440p. I really do miss my 5k iMac 27", but 60Hz doesn't cut it anymore these days, and I'm not about to drop £5k on a pair of Apple Studio Displays.

Re: Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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Post by _pdp_ »

brador wrote: post #128

Stop ignoring obesity. Pull up the BMI chart, do the calculation. Get to normal at 1kg drop a week. Done. It works. Back pain solved.

Solid advise but I think that it is less known that tight glutes can cause lower back pain too even when your BMI is normal. Basically sitting too much and not stretching enough is a cause for the pelvic misalignment.
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