For travel I always brought one of these as us zenscreen https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ZenScreen-MB16AC-Portable-Monito... they are powered off the USB.
Looks very practical, touch works well with mac?
Travelling with 24” Monitors
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#192Give Sidecar with a 13” iPad Pro a go. It’s been life-changing for me and my mobile workflow!
It’s fun and sort of useful with my 6th gen regular iPad and my otherwise horribly underpowered (I’m pretending to be a 4K iMac and apparently that’s powerful enough for Sidecar, but the actual processor and its iGPU are slower than a 2015 Mac Mini). I can see how it would be super useful with the 13” model and an Apple Pencil, neither of which I own.
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Back in January of 2019 I bought a 55" UHD TV that I used as my main monitor for a few months. Ultimately, I found that 55" was too big for me relative to the distance that I was sitting from the screen. Currently I am back to using a 27" PC monitor with 2560x1440 resolution. I use this same monitor both when I use my desktop computer and when I use my laptop. In the latter case I have the additional monitor of the l…
Agreed, 55" does sound huge. I'd never be able to work with the edges at that size. At 43", I keep the monitor a few inches farther back than my old setup. But I also got a great idea from my eye doctor - he helped me refine a prescription specifically for the distance between my chair and monitor. With these glasses, the screen is impeccably sharp. And I have a different set of glasses for when I walk away from the…
I have a pair of bifocals for that purpose: medium/short range, instead of the usual long/short.
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This is one of those concepts that is obviously going to be great when it's ready for prime-time, but just isn't there yet. In a generation or two when the headsets are lighter (can be worn for a day without leaving an impression on your face as the current headsets do) and higher resolution (can actually replace a multi-monitor setup in number of pixels), I strongly believe this is going to be a killer app that coul…
> if you can touchtype fluently then VR works fine, but if not, it's going to be challenging to use. Couldn't you just render the keyboard (+ finger positions I guess) inside the VR.
Use chording! Chording is (maybe?) similar to sign language and so "glyphs" or "chords" could be recognized by camera or finger position sensors.
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#195I understand the sentiment. I can't work on laptops (for days at a time) either.
Though I'd be hard pressed to take my chair with me. I can't work without that, either!
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The TSA misses about 95% of guns, so chances are you’ll be fine.
The latest report I could find says 70%: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa... Are there newer stats that show 95%?
the 25% difference is the bad guys who don't own up to carrying.
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You can still do that minus the knife as long as the tools are under 7 inches. They even allow power tools. For check in can bring whatever tools you want. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
I don't know. My friend managed to do this by accident - he had a pocket knife in his backpack that he forgot about. Just threw the backpack in the X-ray scanner and picked it up on the other side. Only noticed it when we were changing flights. This was just a few years ago, a day or two after France had had one of its annual terrorist attacks.
I too have brought a knife through security... not sure how much of it was me versus the fact that there were a whole bunch of Boy Scouts right in front of me, so they might've though I was with them or something.
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> But a few months back, I switched to a single 43" UHD TV instead. I get more screen real estate that I did before No you didn’t. If you switched from 2x 24” 4Ks to a single 43” 4K, you have half the real estate you used to, you’re just zoomed in on it. To avoid confusing inches as a useful metric for how much information can be shown on screens at once, monitors should be measured in megapixels. Problem’s even wors…
I think you’re off too. A 43” 4k can be run at its native 4k and the text is fine for reading and programming. If you’re running a 24” 4k, you’re running it scaled. At a minimum you’re running it at 1.5x, which means you’re getting about the same screen usage as the 43” tv.
It’s mathematically impossible to be off when using megapixels, that’s the point. It’s objective, not subjective. Bring back the subjective by considering “dpi” or “ppi”.
And no, I use dual 24” plus the Macbook Pro 16” native screen, and I run the 24s at native pixels (dual 4K @ 60Hz). I do, however, scale fonts up to 120% - 150% text size (depends on app).
This reduces the % of screen used for UI elements, while retaining “retina” text legible at arms length (same distance you’d read an iPad or magazine).
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That was Dolch's main product: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1226/Dolch-Computer-S...
https://jcs.org/2018/03/20/dolch64 https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1232779884751204354
https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...
No, I'm not taking a vacation. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I'm getting a hotel room in a state where I don't know anyone, so I can do a bunch of research with no distractions.
I bought a new computer specifically for this purpose - A Dolch portable pentium-II system. The significant thing is that it has full length PCI slots, so I was able to put an Evans & Sutherland OpenGL accelerator in it (not enough room for an intergraph Realizm, though), and still drive the internal LCD screen. It works out pretty well, but I'm sure there will be conventional laptops with good 3D acceleration available later this year.
This will be an interesting experiment for me. I have always wondered how much of my time that isn't at peak productivity is a necessary rest break, and how much of it is just wasted.
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#200I've travelled with a single 27" iMac, which wasn't much of a problem, but it's a shame that Apple removed the "Target Display" mode [0] from the newer 5K/Retina iMacs. What the hell? That would have been perfect, to have a lighter MacBook or even the newer USB-C iPad Pro for outdoors, with the 27" at the hotel, without having to sync data before working on the bigger screen. Or to host a visitor's Mac. But no, now y…
Years ago, I used to do something slightly crazy, that might or might not be possible still. Rather than my iMac being an external display for my MacBook Air, I put that one in Target Disk mode (over TB1) and booted the iMac from it. Still everything in one place, but actually leveraging the better specs. I believe it was Snow Leopard at the time, which had few issues doing so. While it worked surprisingly well, the main downside was I always had to shutdown to unplug. After about a year of working like that, my iMac got those notorious black spots, and shortly after, the first MacBook Pro retina came out (good times). Since then, I'm back to having a powerful laptop and an external display.