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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
Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…
Nice to see other people doing the same thing I do, albeit with a 4k OLED instead. I am waiting for an 8k OLED at an affordable price but it seems I will have to continue waiting. What brand and model of desk do you have? I have a 48" TV but I sit rather close so it probably takes up the same field of view as your 65". As to your last paragraph, if you email hn@ycombinator.com and explain the situation, they'll sort…
I got the black laminate desktop in a custom 75" x 42" dimension so the whole thing cost me almost $2000.
[1] https://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-4-leg-standing-desk-v2-v2-...
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Low response time (i.e. time it takes for a pixel to change color) to reduce ghosting, and a high refresh rate up to 240 Hz. These monitors are expensive and do not have very high resolution. If you're not a hardcore fast reflex gamer, and you spend a lot of time looking at text, then IMO it's better to buy a higher resolution monitor for less money.
These days you can buy 4K/240Hz displays that have a 1080p/480Hz mode. Even 240Hz is usually enough for really good players. 480Hz is just for the 0.01% who can take advantage of it. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Swift-Gaming-Monitor-PG32UCDP/dp... https://www.amazon.com/LG-32GS95UE-Ultragear-DisplayHDR-Dis... https://www.amazon.com/LG-32GS95UV-Ultragear-DisplayHDR-Dis... https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Monitor-FreeS…
I'm skeptical that any human can take advantage of that. Even 240Hz is stretching it.
Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…
I love this blog post. “It can display seven equally spaced vertical columns of text (critical importance), has driver issues (minimal importance), wake issues (who cares), it costs as much as four smaller monitors (this is good), I need a huge desk (hell yeah), there are multiple image quality issues (well it’s not like I have to look at it all day)…” It is like “I spent fifteen hundred dollars on a multitude of has…
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.
The biggest problem I see is ergonomics. The proper monitor height is when the top third of the screen is at or slightly below your eye level when seated or standing upright. This positioning helps prevent neck strain and allows for a comfortable viewing angle. The top third of a large TV will be much higher than that, which will cause long term discomfort. That's why large monitors have much wider aspect than TVs.
Would recommend a black background Vscode theme for an OLED. The black background with red accents looks beautiful, at least on my smaller XPS 15 4k OLED. I use Dobri Next Black with some customizations but it looks good by default as well.
Author here, ask me anything! Apart from programming, one of the motivations for getting the 8K display is to look at lidar point clouds. For example the desktop background in my post is a lidar map of Bernal Hill in San Francisco, which I've here downsampled to only 13006 x 7991 px for your convenience [1]. Admittedly, when I bought it at first, I didn't realize there would be so many random issues, as manufacturers…
What do you use the lidar point clouds for?
The 8k monitors are progress!