Is there a plugin for mac to make tiled windowing easier. All the current ones are a bit too hacky. I really liked tiling in PopOS.
I've been using AeroSpace with AutoRaise since coming back to a Mac after years on i3/sway.
Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
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Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
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RTINGS reviewed the Samsung QN800A as consuming 139W typical, with a 429W maximum: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/qn800a-8k-qled#tes... The parent comment is completely wrong on nearly every point it makes. I don't know why it's so upvoted right now. It doesn't even pass the common sense test. Does anyone really think TVs have 200W CPUs inside just to move pixels around? That's into the territory of a high…
I didn't smell anything. A 200W PSU isn't terribly expensive and being cheaper than more efficient processors seems reasonable. I also only run a single 4k monitor so haven't thought about driving 4x the pixels recently.
> I didn't smell anything. A 200W PSU isn't terribly expensive and being cheaper than more efficient processors seems reasonable
200W is the realm of powerful GPUs and enthusiast/server CPUs.
Common sense would rule out an 8K TV requiring as much power as an entire gaming GPU just to move pixels from the HDMI port to the panel.
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#313I love my Acer Predator 43” 4K. It’s small enough that I don’t feel like I need to extend my desk to sit far enough away, and it also just squeaks under the max load for the Ergotron HX monitor arm.
It’s extremely sharp for normal use, and doubles as a 4K 120Hz monitor for gaming.
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#314Author 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 don't know many Linux users doing 4k+ at 144hz. I am wondering if you do any screen capture or desktop recording, and if so what software you use and what your experience is like? I cannot reliably capture 4k/144hz with my setup but my desktop environment is still on X11. I tried KDE/Wayland and had a better experience, but run into other bugs based on their integration.
Just curious how your experience with sway has been. I installed it but wasn't expecting to come with no config at all and didn't really want to be bothered setting it up just to test screen recording.
The issue with X11 is that even if you record (using any software) it causes the display refresh rate to artificially drop and its a very bad experience overall when you run at 4k144hz. Ultimately, the future is wayland but I am a little surprised how slow it has been for everyone to integrate it into their software.
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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.
I find it annoying that they've kind of got rid of mouse, tails and other easy ways of finding the mice pointer. That's one of the main drawbacks of a massive screen is if you lose the pointer it takes a lot longer to find it. It's not a linear scale based on the width of the monitor. It's with the square. So 50-in monitor is going to be about four times longer to find a mouse pointer than a 30-in one. I don't like t…
Pointer trails are still a feature in windows last I checked, and hitting ctrl to animate a circle around it works pretty much everywhere. I don't use either of these features nowadays, and usually find my cursor by moving it until I get to somewhere with high contrast.
I haven't seen anything I like quite as much for quickly finding the cursor as macos's "wiggle for giant cursor" feature.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#316Author 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…
Do you have access to other lidar areas, like in Pennsylvania/Philly?
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I have the Uplift 4 leg standing desk [1]. 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-...
I wish deep desks were more common! Modern ultrawide curved monitors sit way too close for comfort for me due to the way their legs have to be angled further back for center of gravity. custom desks end up being so expensive.
A small desk works best imho. Have the bottom of the screen well below desk height.
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#318Have been sporting a 4K LG CX48 OLED since ~Sept, 2020 best monitor decision ever. I've got two HDMI out cables, 1 going to my gaming rig and the other for my Macbook where I do my work as a developer. I haven't noticed any burn-in or dead pixels. You need to set it up for success, enable all the burn-in prevention settings the monitor provides (static image darkening, pixel shifting&cleaning). It's also a great idea…
I stole one of these from Best Buy for $500 in march. It’s just so good. I haven’t turned off the local dimming thing with the service remote so that’s still a thing but damn is it such a great monitor. And for gaming cyberpunk at 120hz with hdr melts your face.
Re: Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
#319I used a 43" 4k TV to replace a multi-monitor setup, and the neck and eye strain was brutal for me. Even with a really nice display with a high refresh rate, viewing the corners from that close up was worse than useless. The brightness was difficult to tune down enough to reduce eye strain and from that close up reducing blue light through software wasn't very helpful.
I've since switched to a 32" 4k curved display (still 16:9, not ultrawide) and have been much happier. The curve makes more of the view useful from the periphery and the display has some quality-of-life features, like displaying multiple inputs as separated and ratio-configureable "monitors" in hardware. It's also nice to have controls on the display; the TV relied on the remote, and I kept losing track of it.
The only thing I miss is being able to switch to watching sports at the end of the work day, and being able to cast video to it. Those were luxuries duplicated by other things already in the house. I'd like to say I miss gaming on it but I honestly don't, it's much nicer to not have to extend the keyboard and mouse back far enough to also see the entire display at once.
I work mostly with text and code so the curve isn't an issue, and I could see designers preferring a flat panel to avoid distortion. Otherwise I'm not sure I could go back to having such a large display, much less a 65" display.
EDIT: Per another comment, I have mild hyperopia diagnosed about a year into using this setup, which continued for another year after getting glasses to correct it. My prescription has not changed since getting the new display.
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Since you seem to know about the best window managers, can you recommend one for MacOS which will let me direct focus to whichever window is left/right/down/up of the currently selected one? i3/sway does this just fine, but my impression is that MacOS's api doesn't allow third party developers to pull it off, but I'd love to be wrong about that.
Not the person you were asking, but after years of using i3, AeroSpace is the only way I can use a Mac productively, and does indeed have the feature you're describing.
Wow. Thanks for this. I've bounced off a number of tiling WMs on MacOS over the years - Amethyst, Yabai, others I can't remember - but Aerospace is really excellent. Can't believe I've never heard of it before. Love the custom implementation of spaces as a solution to what ails a number of other tiling WMs. I installed it this morning and disabled the mish-mash of Rectangle Pro, Better Touch Tool and OS kb shortcuts I'd been using.