Modeling and CAD generally require up to 4 monitors.
- App
- App submenus and subwindows
- Redlines/markups/notes
- Optional. Emails, file browsing, screen share, manuals.
Though I’d say working with complicated apps regularly will give you a mental illness, so fair.
Like it says, mental illness.
I don’t do modeling or anything, but don’t workspaces (virtual desktops) work better? Mostly to avoid moving your head so much around 4 screens. I would think so anyway but i dunno
I work with redlines and you need to have them open on another screen while you’re making edits unless you like torturing yourself.
Since then I’ve upgraded the laptop so it actually runs on all screens. And I can switch to the desktop with a KVM.
Dragon theme -> hoarde of monitors. Checks out.
Super nice looking setup.
My KVM is the best piece of technology I’ve purchased. That’s an impressive KVM to run that setup.
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What’s gis? Cos apparently I’m one.
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Wut….?
were gis’ers!
Now gith…
Im so confused
If geography is a way to bridge the natural and social sciences, a GIS is basically a tool for combining unlike, often large scale datasets that are hard to compare otherwise. A GIS allows people to see where things occur in time and space and analyse those relationships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science
I, too, gis’ed in my pants at work.
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
Just here to point out that Stephen Crowder is a shithead.
Lets be real, 4 and 8 are “Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our tiling window managers” 99% the time in practice.
GIS as in geographic information systems?
Girls in socks
Gastro-intestinal system
As a GIS tech, there’s one missing - the laptop next to an ultrawide. Optional normal monitor to the side :P
But yes, as a former weather forecaster, the 4 in a square is insane and unfortunately it was necessary on bad weather days. At one of my locations, we also had the PC hooked up to a television running behind us and had a separate real time data monitor to the side. So… Yeah.
One of us. In my old job I ran two gaming rigs for processing on a KVM switch. GIS is all about the rig. Only need one or two screens lol. 13 btw lmao.
Mental illness is almost all of finance. That checks out 100%.
Which one is most common for finance?
8,11 16
10 with a giant central screen is fairly norm now too.
tbf number 8 could be used for security too
When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.
I’m not even on the chart
Those characters in your desktop seem awfully gleeful at your future neck ache.
My bed is right behind this picture and I sometimes lie down and turn right to look at the main monitor. Turning left-up balances it.
STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE 🚑🚑🚑
I ain’t moving this has been my setup for 2 years at this point
Lmg, the top one is for playing music off YouTube?
It’s for messaging. I put Matrix and Discord over there. Chat and OBS also goes there when I stream.
So all I do is occasionally look over at it. It’s not really a problem for my neck.
Look, I’m not here to GIS anything. That’s my pinball monitor.
What’s GIS
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Interesting… still works without the new fangled fancy databases.
It’s databases all the way down, brother.
Thanks
alternate spelling for jizz. it’s a porn watching setup.
geographic information system
Asking the important questions, we need to know what we are @fossilesque@mander.xyz
See above.
This is my mental illness, I change, rearrange, add, and substract screens constantly in my array. It’s mostly for leaving ambient video playing in the background at my house, kinda like a little zen garden. I dream of programming all the TVs at a night club.
I got five computers in the array when this pic was taken. Three 2012 MacBook Pros, one on MacOS 10.15 Catalina, one on Windows 10, and one on Mint. Down low I have two gaming PCs, a 2014 build running Fedora and a 2017 build on Ubuntu.
You can’t see my face but I’m cheesing so hard, this was one of the more ridiculous arrangements I’ve set up. I will use between three and seven screens at once on a normal day, but eight was an accomplishment lol
This is dope.
Nice setup!
The only thing mental is putting up with all of these seams. If you’re not in a tactical environment that requires this – say for being able to set up and move on the fly – then just get a big ass monitor. They’re life changing.
Easier to move windows around using the windows+arrow keys this way. Easier to share screen this way. Easier to switch context this way.
You can set up your own windows snap patterns and you can share windows instead of full screens.
Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.
Lol, fair enough. None of it is mental if I’m not required to use it myself.
I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.
Get bent, fucking casuals!
These are my emotional support monitors
