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Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by gosub100 »

I'm embarking on a similar geek journey. Just today I bought a used radiology PACS display (barco mdcc-6430) just to see if there is anything novel or cool about the picture or any clinical features. I'm not expecting much but stuff like this is how you find out.

This display is color, however I have considered getting a grayscale only rads display for "ADHD purposes" i.e. the same reason people are interested in e-ink displays (well, one reason).

It will probably be a huge waste of time and money but I'm just a masochist for tech pain I guess...

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

bhouston wrote: post #116

I use a 48" OLED with my MacBook Air M3 and for me that is a near ultimate web development experience both on desktop and when travelling: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social/post/3l7li... I mentioned this here on Hacker News just yesterday, but most respondents were appalled that it was only a 4K monitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988340

48 inches at 4K is such a low pixel density, are you not bothered by how bad text looks compared to high DPI screens?

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by bee_rider »

coretx wrote: post #92
appleiigs wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general advice is to have top of monitor at eye level, but it's been wrong advice for me personally. I now put the middle of the monitor at eye level. Keeps my head up and posture better. Leaning back instead of stooping.

The general advice provided to me, and relayed by me is eyes centered @ 2/3th of the screen. The best advice received and relayed by me regarding posture might surprise you. If you struggle with posture, stop caring about what other people might think about your posture. Changing/Tweaking posture all the time might look bad, but it also tends to mitigate the effects of being frozen in bad posture(!) The health impact…

Yeah I think the only ergonomic advice I believe anymore is that there does not exist a position that is ergonomic to sustain for more than a couple hours. Humans are not evolved to stay stationary, few mammals are really.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by layer8 »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #129
kwanbix wrote: post #98

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Same for me. I just tried a curved 27 inches monitor and I hate it.

That's too small for the curvature to provide any benefit.

I find curved beneficial even on 24”, but I’m also quite nearsighted.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by shric »

bravoetch wrote: post #153
dylan604 wrote: post #145

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I didn't see any mention of how many times he has to pick up his mouse when it gets to the edge of the pad to get the mouse from one edge of the screen to the other.

With all that text, I'm hoping their religion is keyboard shortcuts.

i3/sway was recommended in the post, so yes.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #54

I am excited for 8k monitors in the future, because they give you a lot more options for integer scaling than current 4k displays. I know this a nerdish hill to die on, but I hate fractional scaling with the blazing fury of a thousand suns. To get a 1440p sized UI on a 27" 4k display, you can't just divide by 1.5x the OS has to 3x/2 for every frame. OS X does this best as they've had retina displays for a while, but…

I am curious as to what OS's you've tried. Fractional scaling is flawless on Windows and KDE6 with wayland in my experience.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by mciancia »

RecycledEle wrote: post #139

I am using a pair of 43", 4k TVs. The 2x43" configuration has been my working setup for about a decade. I love it. Anything bigger than 43" diagonal causes neck pain because it is too tall. I understand three 32" TVs also work.

Seems pretty wide. no problem there?

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by matheusmoreira »

I've always wondered why everybody would buy "monitors" for computer use. Isn't it the same thing as a television screen? Back then TVs used to take different inputs but everything is digital now.

That checkerboard effect is certainly interesting. Someone somewhere is going to be nostalgic about this artifact someday, maybe they'll even make a shader to emulate it. I wonder what causes it and why it disappears in game mode.

> on Linux it took about two years for 8K 60 Hz support to work, spawning a salty thread on GitHub

All I see is paying customers asking for support.

> The AMD on Linux fiasco is because the HDMI Forum has prohibited AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open source Linux drivers.

That's weird since nvidia's open source driver has an implementation.

Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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Post by shric »

jsheard wrote: post #127
dmd wrote: post #112

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Nobody's stopping you from segmenting one big monitor into different regions; and you get to choose how big those regions are from day to day rather than being forced into it.

Although if that big monitor is an OLED, segmenting it into halves or quarters is kind of begging to end up with a line burned in down or across the middle eventually.

I'm imagining a tiling window manager screensaver that slowly resizes and moves your window boundaries throughout the day
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