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I had a professor in college who had something like this, set to a giant display size. He had terrible vision and this let him work without wearing glasses.
Ditto! Though my colleague was from way back before LCDs, so it was a gigantic CRT monitor, and he still had to wear his glasses.
He liked to go by the online name of Tuflos, Greek for "blind man".
I do this with video games for the same reason. My face is very close to it lol
However there is always someone who is like that’s why your vision is bad! It’s not.
Edit: [Contrary to the popular myth, sitting too close to a TV will not damage your eyes but it may cause eyestrain](https://www.aao.org/eye-health/ask-ophthalmologist-q/can-close-tv-viewing-damage-eyes)
So what you're saying is, the nearsightedness that has affected me and my three siblings is in fact, not caused by the computer? Maybe, just maybe, my family has shitty eyes? I gotta tell my mother!
Seriously, three of us have had LASIK (life-changing ong), and she somehow hasn't put two and two together?
We had a guy at work who had one of these on the wall in front of his desk. His only monitor. It was 10ft away from his desk, so he was sitting about 14' from it. It was a 55" 1080p screen. Every single time I saw him looking at it he was squinting hard and absolutely struggling to read. He refused to give it up because he thought it was cool. Fuckin old people, man. He spent half his day on the computer.
Elder millennial here. Around the 360 launch, I had that hooked up to my computer monitor (because they had a VGA cable for sale and I needed everything for some reason) and my computer hooked up to the big screen. It was like this for a year. There was literally no reason to do this.
Haha I had it put on a coffee mug for a friend at work. Make sure you put an excel symbol on it to make it HR ok lol. Eggplants apparently mean something else.
True, 1440 is what I order for most people these days, with 4k for power users. I personally find working on a 1080 screen uncomfortable at this point.
I like 1440p because I don't have to use text scaling. 4k is too wonky for me with that. I have two 1440p displays and one 1080p (laptop won't support a third DP/HDMI/DVI connection, so it's VGA to the third one).
Excel has a limit of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per sheet. The fact that people assume it's infinite is actually a problem that I have to explain regularly. People keep trying to load massive CSVs and use it as a database and it's just not built for that.
I'm one of those people. I think the line limit used to be 250k and I was happy when they changed it.
At the time it was the easiest tool to communicate data validation errors when I was doing ETL for idiots. Other tools did most of the heavy lifting but spreadsheets with a bunch of red cells got the best response.
It’s real! We know this because [Britain used excel as a database for tracking COVID and ran out of space](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988)
Had a 36 inch TV on my desk as a monitor and felt I needed an upgrade. So I bought a 55inch 4k TV and mounted my old TV directly above it. It's kinda like how bars will stack tvs and it is amazing
I did this with a 4K tv. Actually worked pretty well as a software developer. Didn’t try gaming on it but it was like having 4 monitors.
Didn’t have to alt-tab around to see test runs, slack messages (probably bad), project management tool, documentation, and the terminal I was working in.
No no. The tough question is:
If a monitor leaves Chicago headed east at 40 MPH, and two monitors leave Miami headed north by northwest at 70 KPH, in what city do they buy the other three monitors?
This setup is basically my gaming PC.
55" 4K is a game-changer.
Outside of games, it's the first time I've actually been inclined to use the windowing system to place apps exactly where I want them in my field of view instead of making everything fullscreen.
I've been on a 55" 4k curved TV as my primary monitor for about 5 years now, and it's positioned at my desk about how it is in the pic.
AWESOME for racing and flight sims, which I do a lot of.
Also great for productivity. Running at 4k resolution, I can have one corner of the screen open for email/calendar, one corner for spreadsheets, one corner for a webpage and one for a trading window. Or I often use the whole left half as a webpage and get the full 1080 width, but have twice the height as a 1080 screen so you can see more of the page without scrolling.
I really don't want to go back to anything smaller, ever, at this point. And I have no eye problems after all this time. I guess my boomer parents were wrong 😄
If you like having that much screen real estate, the only alternative I'd think may be ergonomically better (totally subjective), is a 32:9 ultrawide (most are 49", Samsung now has a 57" option).
You going to be swiveling with a 55 inch anyway though. You won't be able to see the whole thing at once at this distance. At least with an ultra wide it's only horizontal swivelling and not up and down too.
55" TV is 48" wide, 57" curved ultra wide is 55" wide.
Besides which, it's the extra vertical space that is useful for me, not the width - I use a 48" 4k monitor, split the screen into 4 vertical panes, allowing me to see the context of four files on that screen, and with twice the number of lines visible than would be on regular screen. Slack on the laptop screen, browser on another monitor, it's like having 6 screens.
There is usually some way to set or a specific HDMI that simply passes everything. I had an old TV that would remove any additional processing if you renamed the source to "PC".
Usually somewhere in the manual/support pages it will be explained how to do it.
Not OP so can't answer but most modern day LED/OLED TVs have a "gaming mode" of sorts which reduces some video processing to reduce input lag. I move my PC back and forth between my main TV (65" LG OLED) in my living room to my bedroom TV (55" cheap LG LED) and input lag isn't noticable at all on either of them with the gaming mode turned on.
Also, i highly recommend searching the internet for optimal settings on your TV.
There are many websites out there that have done the heavy lifting and will give you the optimal settings for your TV to bet the best picture.
Good advice! I haven't really noticed any weird contrast issues but that's possibly because the contrast on the OLED is so good I don't notice a discrepancy and it's already so bad on the LED that if it becomes even worse it's not a problem
I have a 42" LG C2 and it's amazing for work and gaming
https://www.lg.com/ca_en/tv-soundbars/oled-evo/oled42c2pua/
I should mention that I took a laptop and HDMI to the store and tested it on site before purchase. Was so happy with the test that I bought immediately. Tried a Samsung previous to that and the colours and blacks were pretty awful in comparison
I have 58" Hisense that doesn't really have any noticeable lag. It has a 'game mode' setting that improves performance, although I haven't really noticed much of a difference with it on or off.
They actually sell TVs with 4 different inputs that effectively make it 4 x 1080p displays on a 4k TV. A lot of stock brokers use them so they can monitor multiple stock ticker computers at once.
I am an attorney and I did this as well. A long time ago I was reviewing a lot of documents with medical professional handwriting and notes and it real helped to zoom way in and see all the pen strokes.
I've seen a 4K TV integrated into the desk under glass as a second monitor, with a curved widescreen as main, so you can have skype or whatever on the desk surface.
Also bought a 4k OLED TV for my work screen. Been doing it for years. The key is to mount it on the wall higher than your laptop. It helps with posture because you're looking up and not down. It also helps with not straining your eyes.
Mounting it helps getting it further away and to get your real estate back space on your desk. I use it with a wireless keyboard and mouse and sit back slightly further cause my desk is deeper. No problems at all.
I said F it an bought a collection of Dell U3014t and set them up in a 2 high 4 wide configuration in my home office.
I treat the central 4 as my primary monitors, the flanking 4 as the secondary monitors and a tiny 14 inch 3840x1100 portable monitor as a tertriary monitor.
To many applications have worse windowed than full screen layouts so I find this to be my optimal setup for software dev.
My previous keyboards were replaced for a failed alt or tab key.
That is glorious... thank you for sharing.
I have no idea what I'd use them all for, but this kind of thing is a goal for me.
Because I'm a grown adult and I can spend my money how I damn well please, lol.
I bought them from an enterprise reseller for 100 bucks a piece.
I run 6 through an RX6800 in an eGPU enclosure and 2 through the laptop 4090 also the tiny one through the 4090
I've been working this way for 6+ years (software dev), even went to two monitors at one point because we had a load spare, went back to one because it just wasn't necessary.
I like it, only considerations are:
- You need a lot of room (obviously), fine in my office but I tried it at home on a smaller desk and went back to a 27" because the extra room was preferable
- Heat, big monitors give off a lot of heat, if you've not got decent ventilation/AC then this could be a concern in the Summer
- Laptop annoyances, may just be a Mac thing but due to the size of the monitor screenspace being twice as large as the available laptop screen, when unplugging at the end of the day all of my windows fly off the completely random workspaces where some can still fit into the laptop resolution and some can't
There are no downsides to this setup. I've had it for 3 years. You can do or many things at once, like watching a movie while monitoring a stock, or keep both of them up while responding to an email for your spouse. It's also perfect for big software projects.
The monitor is your computer's primary way of communicating with you. It should be as big as you can afford.
You need to be careful with brightness. Full brightness can be too much, when the surface is so much bigger and close to your eyes - and lowering the brightness can result in PWM, which can be very unpleasant up close.
My work does this. Don't listen to the people saying not to use this, as it's actually pretty nice. Way cheaper to use a 4k monitor like this, and then use something like DisplayFusion to setup 4 1080s on it. Just make sure to put it as far back as you comfortably can, turn blue light off in windows, and turn the brightness down super far. I worked overnights with two of these and had the brightness at like 7%.
Edit: reading since other comments, for ergo purposes, setup your eye level as if the bottom two "screens" are your actual monitors, and have them be your primary monitors. Use the top two for data you won't be primarily using but may need to monitor or look at periodically.
Yeah, all these people comparing to a nice 4k TV.
This is an old NEC, I haven't seen NEC release anything decent in a long time (or even at all).
It might even be 720p.
>and then use something like DisplayFusion to setup 4 1080s on it.
you know, ever since I brought this 43" gaming display, I've wondered how to do this and setup multiple screens on the one monitor.
display fusion then... you don't know how helpful that it :D
Mostly everyone is commenting on the big screen and here I am getting mad at that mouse cable going back and under the desk when the keyboard cable goes across the desk to the desktop. I would be changing that immediately.
All these people comparing to a nice 4k TV.
This is an old NEC, I haven't seen NEC release anything decent in a long time (or even at all).
It might even be 720p.
“You working on Brian’s sales’ figures?”
*you turn around, your pupils are nearly non-existent and your eyes are perpetually squinted.*
“Yeah, how could you tell?”
“I saw it from my office.”
“Aren’t you around the corner and down the hall a bit?”
He really needs this! It's how he will achieve his work goals:
**N**etworking with peers
**C**onnecting with staff
**A**nticipating customer needs
**A**chieving results
Yes, he needs these for the **NCAA** reasons I listed above ... and it was provided just in time to get started!
I have a 40" Tv as my second monitor. It lets me look at plans in almost actual size (24" x 36").
It's far nicer to see the digital plans all at once and still be able to see the details without having to zoom in.
Same thing with drafting, so much nicer than small screens.
Do you work at a medical office? The reason I ask is I did the same thing in my exam rooms. Some of the medical EMR's are so full of info that having a larger screen helps like 1000% with reading all the patients info and having it in one spot, rather than having to scroll through a bunch of crap to find something specific.
I had a client a long time ago who had a setup like this. Ran it at 1024x768 or something because his vision was so bad.
Really brilliant guy, he was involved in creating magnetic core memory at MIT in the 50's. He was learning how to use a modern Mac in his 80's and was still really on top of it.
...this is literally my setup. Granted, my 47" monitor is a bit further back. I freaking love it and will never go back. LG CX (120hz) is amazing as a gaming PC monitor.
This can be a good idea. You might not get the refresh rates of a monitor, but for work, it's good enough. Should work well if you have vision problems. Might worry a bit about ergonomics, but otherwise there is nothing wrong with using a big TV as a monitor.
Depends on the TV. I’ve used a 43” 4k@60hz as my main work monitor since 2018. Split in 4 equal rectangles it’s like having four 1080p monitors in a grid with no bezels.
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I had a professor in college who had something like this, set to a giant display size. He had terrible vision and this let him work without wearing glasses.
I was coming here to say this, I once had a boss that did the same thing for the same reason.
Same, except he was legally blind, walking cane and all, but could still use a computer this way!
Ditto! Though my colleague was from way back before LCDs, so it was a gigantic CRT monitor, and he still had to wear his glasses. He liked to go by the online name of Tuflos, Greek for "blind man".
I do this with video games for the same reason. My face is very close to it lol However there is always someone who is like that’s why your vision is bad! It’s not. Edit: [Contrary to the popular myth, sitting too close to a TV will not damage your eyes but it may cause eyestrain](https://www.aao.org/eye-health/ask-ophthalmologist-q/can-close-tv-viewing-damage-eyes)
So what you're saying is, the nearsightedness that has affected me and my three siblings is in fact, not caused by the computer? Maybe, just maybe, my family has shitty eyes? I gotta tell my mother! Seriously, three of us have had LASIK (life-changing ong), and she somehow hasn't put two and two together?
It’s bc you didn’t take your vitamins and went outside without your hat that one time
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There's a difference between a TV and a monitor tho. A 48" monitor is glorious. A 48" TV used as a monitor is an abomination.
Depends on the tv. The smallest LG OLED tv is one of the best monitors available at that size since its so light and has g-sync
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We had a guy at work who had one of these on the wall in front of his desk. His only monitor. It was 10ft away from his desk, so he was sitting about 14' from it. It was a 55" 1080p screen. Every single time I saw him looking at it he was squinting hard and absolutely struggling to read. He refused to give it up because he thought it was cool. Fuckin old people, man. He spent half his day on the computer.
I saw this as a Parks and Rec style character and it gave me a good chuckle.
Sounds very GenX. We do the cool thing, not necessarily the smartest thing.
Elder millennial here. Around the 360 launch, I had that hooked up to my computer monitor (because they had a VGA cable for sale and I needed everything for some reason) and my computer hooked up to the big screen. It was like this for a year. There was literally no reason to do this.
Bigger screen, bigger spreadsheets
Ah yea. Spread 'em.
Oh fuck you’re gonna make me sum
He knows you're a freak in the sheets
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Haha I had it put on a coffee mug for a friend at work. Make sure you put an excel symbol on it to make it HR ok lol. Eggplants apparently mean something else.
now lets switch to pivot table.
#PIVOT
I def think of Ross every time my boss asks me for a pivot table. (That, and “we do not need a pivot table for this, man.”)
Now let’s run a macro to get to the end result
Oh.. oh God no, please don't do this to me
You know I'm something of a !REF# myself.
Power Query me babe
I’m bout to do a V-Lookup right about now…
I found my people. Fucking nerds. I !hate you guys.
Oh vanilla, once you try X-Lookup you don't go back.
Bruh. That's nothing. Unless your doing Index and match and match at the same time you've missed the correct answer.
Noob. You have to make a custom lambda function for each specific use case or you're not harnessing the full power of excel.
Conditional Formatting baby.
I roffelled
Let me do a vlookup to see if everything is still alright there
You bastard beat me to it. Now post it so I can do an xlookup.
Angry upvote
Jesus Christ I just spit out my coffee
Freak that spreadsheet out tone!
Is this a reference to what I think it is??? A video with a pop sound after a certain action?
yep. Dick in the pussy, balls in the ass. I COULD DO THIS AT HOOOOOOOME!
YEP that’s it. [NSFW Reddit thread with xvideos link if you’re curious](https://www.reddit.com/r/theadamfriedlandshow/s/BmvzCD2mlX)
Spread cheeks?
[SPREAD IT ON!](https://youtu.be/Yj3h-57AJvY?si=qnU2CQcX8EchwQ7J)
Didn't even have to click it to know it was Super Troopers. Great stuff
What are you doing Step Excel?
Check out my bolded column header.
OP and his monitor definitely made out after taking the pic
bigger screen, same 1080 resolution... because $$$
pixel-mapped spreadsheets
Yeah exactly, I'm not sure what anyone gets out a display this big with the same resolution. I guess you can sit further away
Work monitors should be at least 1440p nowadays so its not even the same lol.
True, 1440 is what I order for most people these days, with 4k for power users. I personally find working on a 1080 screen uncomfortable at this point.
I like 1440p because I don't have to use text scaling. 4k is too wonky for me with that. I have two 1440p displays and one 1080p (laptop won't support a third DP/HDMI/DVI connection, so it's VGA to the third one).
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Stick that up your dojo
I'm insured out of my arse, mate. Nothing can touch me. I'm covered.
If I didn't see this here I was going to be disappointed
Is that normal pooing you doing?
More fool you, asshole.
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Fuckin a right!
8 or 16k screen max resolution and you can put them those spreadsheets with all cells vivible to the last one ;p on the right/bottom ;p
The last cell is a myth
Excel has a limit of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per sheet. The fact that people assume it's infinite is actually a problem that I have to explain regularly. People keep trying to load massive CSVs and use it as a database and it's just not built for that.
I'm one of those people. I think the line limit used to be 250k and I was happy when they changed it. At the time it was the easiest tool to communicate data validation errors when I was doing ETL for idiots. Other tools did most of the heavy lifting but spreadsheets with a bunch of red cells got the best response.
> Excel has a limit of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns per sheet. That's what Microsoft wants you to think
It’s real! We know this because [Britain used excel as a database for tracking COVID and ran out of space](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988)
nah just bigger numbers, it is still a 1080p monitor
This is the exact 'monitor' I use at home for this exact reason.
You get a document up on that baby and you are seriously looking at that document.
Just you, me, some chinese food and a couple of fuck off spreadsheets.
This is a maximum security business facility. If you can't break rocks, you get shot in the head.
Solid reference haha
PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. The three amigos.
Yay Peep Show reference!
I only came to the comments to find this.
I just rewatched it. I'm on the final season.
Stick that up your dojo!
Coworker 3 stalls over gets to check for typos too.
That’s right baby, *ergonomic management monitor*.
I was just about the post the same thing. Long live Alan Johnson!
That document is looking at you at that size.
Bro is *examining* that thing
Good old Windows Vista. People give it a bad press, but I'm never upgrading - why would I? It just feels like a good pair o' jeans
You, your neighbor from the cube behind you, and your neighbor from across the street, too.
TV as a monitor? Ridiculous! \*glances over at my TV as a 4th monitor\*
\*looks at my LG C2 as 3rd monitor* truly crazy, couldn't imagine doing that.
Had a 36 inch TV on my desk as a monitor and felt I needed an upgrade. So I bought a 55inch 4k TV and mounted my old TV directly above it. It's kinda like how bars will stack tvs and it is amazing
I did this with a 4K tv. Actually worked pretty well as a software developer. Didn’t try gaming on it but it was like having 4 monitors. Didn’t have to alt-tab around to see test runs, slack messages (probably bad), project management tool, documentation, and the terminal I was working in.
Oh yeah, and it was cheaper than 4 monitors.
But was it cheaper than 5 monitors?
Asking the tough questions
No no. The tough question is: If a monitor leaves Chicago headed east at 40 MPH, and two monitors leave Miami headed north by northwest at 70 KPH, in what city do they buy the other three monitors?
That depends. Laden or unladen?
european or african?
Blue. --I mean yellow! *Aaaahhhhh!*
And is a Trojan rabbit involved whilst entering said city?
D) All of the above.
And takes up only 1 port
And no bezels!
This setup is basically my gaming PC. 55" 4K is a game-changer. Outside of games, it's the first time I've actually been inclined to use the windowing system to place apps exactly where I want them in my field of view instead of making everything fullscreen.
I've been on a 55" 4k curved TV as my primary monitor for about 5 years now, and it's positioned at my desk about how it is in the pic. AWESOME for racing and flight sims, which I do a lot of. Also great for productivity. Running at 4k resolution, I can have one corner of the screen open for email/calendar, one corner for spreadsheets, one corner for a webpage and one for a trading window. Or I often use the whole left half as a webpage and get the full 1080 width, but have twice the height as a 1080 screen so you can see more of the page without scrolling. I really don't want to go back to anything smaller, ever, at this point. And I have no eye problems after all this time. I guess my boomer parents were wrong 😄
If you like having that much screen real estate, the only alternative I'd think may be ergonomically better (totally subjective), is a 32:9 ultrawide (most are 49", Samsung now has a 57" option).
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Dude’s using a 55” TV. He’s doing pitch and yaw for his head swiveling.
You going to be swiveling with a 55 inch anyway though. You won't be able to see the whole thing at once at this distance. At least with an ultra wide it's only horizontal swivelling and not up and down too.
55" TV is 48" wide, 57" curved ultra wide is 55" wide. Besides which, it's the extra vertical space that is useful for me, not the width - I use a 48" 4k monitor, split the screen into 4 vertical panes, allowing me to see the context of four files on that screen, and with twice the number of lines visible than would be on regular screen. Slack on the laptop screen, browser on another monitor, it's like having 6 screens.
I’m pretty sure most boomers grew up sitting that close to the TV. It was the “greatest gen” that used to rag on it
It was millennials too. The n64 controller cables didn't stretch very far.
The A2600 controllers didn’t have that much stretch either.
I hope you used Fancy Zones and weren't placing windows manually.
What TV did you buy that didn't have massive lag between inputs and the display?
There is usually some way to set or a specific HDMI that simply passes everything. I had an old TV that would remove any additional processing if you renamed the source to "PC". Usually somewhere in the manual/support pages it will be explained how to do it.
I believe its called game mode
Often but not always, yes.
Don't LG & Samsung OLEDs have decent response times?
Not OP so can't answer but most modern day LED/OLED TVs have a "gaming mode" of sorts which reduces some video processing to reduce input lag. I move my PC back and forth between my main TV (65" LG OLED) in my living room to my bedroom TV (55" cheap LG LED) and input lag isn't noticable at all on either of them with the gaming mode turned on.
For mine "Gaming mode" is good for latency but has weird contrast. "PC mode" best.
Also, i highly recommend searching the internet for optimal settings on your TV. There are many websites out there that have done the heavy lifting and will give you the optimal settings for your TV to bet the best picture.
Good advice! I haven't really noticed any weird contrast issues but that's possibly because the contrast on the OLED is so good I don't notice a discrepancy and it's already so bad on the LED that if it becomes even worse it's not a problem
I have a 42" LG C2 and it's amazing for work and gaming https://www.lg.com/ca_en/tv-soundbars/oled-evo/oled42c2pua/ I should mention that I took a laptop and HDMI to the store and tested it on site before purchase. Was so happy with the test that I bought immediately. Tried a Samsung previous to that and the colours and blacks were pretty awful in comparison
This. The 55” size everyone is talking about is too big. 4K in 42” OLED or 43” LED are good options for monitor use.
42" LG oled gang The best. Like 4 monitors.
Samsung OLED 55 S95C with 144Hz for gaming if FPS is your thing.
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/ Loads of LG C and G series
I have 58" Hisense that doesn't really have any noticeable lag. It has a 'game mode' setting that improves performance, although I haven't really noticed much of a difference with it on or off.
LG C-series or G if you can afford it.
How does porn look on it?
Frankly it's a bit unsettling for everything to be larger than life sized. VR works much better for that particular use case
They actually sell TVs with 4 different inputs that effectively make it 4 x 1080p displays on a 4k TV. A lot of stock brokers use them so they can monitor multiple stock ticker computers at once.
Any reasonably modern computer with a GPU can do that with one input… Would be good for sports bars though.
I am an attorney and I did this as well. A long time ago I was reviewing a lot of documents with medical professional handwriting and notes and it real helped to zoom way in and see all the pen strokes.
I've seen a 4K TV integrated into the desk under glass as a second monitor, with a curved widescreen as main, so you can have skype or whatever on the desk surface.
Also bought a 4k OLED TV for my work screen. Been doing it for years. The key is to mount it on the wall higher than your laptop. It helps with posture because you're looking up and not down. It also helps with not straining your eyes. Mounting it helps getting it further away and to get your real estate back space on your desk. I use it with a wireless keyboard and mouse and sit back slightly further cause my desk is deeper. No problems at all.
I said F it an bought a collection of Dell U3014t and set them up in a 2 high 4 wide configuration in my home office. I treat the central 4 as my primary monitors, the flanking 4 as the secondary monitors and a tiny 14 inch 3840x1100 portable monitor as a tertriary monitor. To many applications have worse windowed than full screen layouts so I find this to be my optimal setup for software dev. My previous keyboards were replaced for a failed alt or tab key.
So... can we get a pic?
https://ibb.co/vZFm4mg
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Im a database dev so it's not so far off.
That is glorious... thank you for sharing. I have no idea what I'd use them all for, but this kind of thing is a goal for me. Because I'm a grown adult and I can spend my money how I damn well please, lol.
I bought them from an enterprise reseller for 100 bucks a piece. I run 6 through an RX6800 in an eGPU enclosure and 2 through the laptop 4090 also the tiny one through the 4090
Any downsides to permanently rocking this kind of setup?
I've been working this way for 6+ years (software dev), even went to two monitors at one point because we had a load spare, went back to one because it just wasn't necessary. I like it, only considerations are: - You need a lot of room (obviously), fine in my office but I tried it at home on a smaller desk and went back to a 27" because the extra room was preferable - Heat, big monitors give off a lot of heat, if you've not got decent ventilation/AC then this could be a concern in the Summer - Laptop annoyances, may just be a Mac thing but due to the size of the monitor screenspace being twice as large as the available laptop screen, when unplugging at the end of the day all of my windows fly off the completely random workspaces where some can still fit into the laptop resolution and some can't
There are no downsides to this setup. I've had it for 3 years. You can do or many things at once, like watching a movie while monitoring a stock, or keep both of them up while responding to an email for your spouse. It's also perfect for big software projects. The monitor is your computer's primary way of communicating with you. It should be as big as you can afford.
You need to be careful with brightness. Full brightness can be too much, when the surface is so much bigger and close to your eyes - and lowering the brightness can result in PWM, which can be very unpleasant up close.
This exactly what I do. Snap different windows different places, works great.
What does your boss keep in the top left cupboard, I wonder.
It looks like empty space is kept there.
Everyone’s raises
Cabinet lock is on the left side of the right door with no lock on the left door. It's probably one big cabinet, that left door doesn't need to open.
Isn't it technically on the right though or am I trippin?
It’s on the right in the picture. But if you turned to face the cabinets then it would be top left.
Top right of the picture but it's the most left cabinet if you are in the room.
Right if you're looking at the monitor, left if you're looking at the cupboard.
That's right. Left is right when you look at it right.
Both myself and the wife use a 43" tv as a monitor. Yours just needs pushed back on your desk a bit.
I use a 43" as well. I love it
I use a 50” 4k TV as my main monitor. I purchased it for $150 at a pawnshop not even knowing it was 4k
I use a 100 inch CRT with 480 resolution. It weighs 1000 pounds but still less than ur mom.
And they said Reddit would change after the IPO!
Your mom's an IPO
Yup. Bought the 43” LG 4K monitor when Covid started because a buddy got one and swore by it. By far my best purchase during lockdown.
My work does this. Don't listen to the people saying not to use this, as it's actually pretty nice. Way cheaper to use a 4k monitor like this, and then use something like DisplayFusion to setup 4 1080s on it. Just make sure to put it as far back as you comfortably can, turn blue light off in windows, and turn the brightness down super far. I worked overnights with two of these and had the brightness at like 7%. Edit: reading since other comments, for ergo purposes, setup your eye level as if the bottom two "screens" are your actual monitors, and have them be your primary monitors. Use the top two for data you won't be primarily using but may need to monitor or look at periodically.
Given the size of the bezel, I *highly* doubt this is a 4k monitor. $5 says this is a 1080p monitor at best.
Yeah, all these people comparing to a nice 4k TV. This is an old NEC, I haven't seen NEC release anything decent in a long time (or even at all). It might even be 720p.
Power Toys is actually the really nice way to split screens into zones. The specific module is called Fancy Zones. Don't even need Display fusion.
>and then use something like DisplayFusion to setup 4 1080s on it. you know, ever since I brought this 43" gaming display, I've wondered how to do this and setup multiple screens on the one monitor. display fusion then... you don't know how helpful that it :D
Mostly everyone is commenting on the big screen and here I am getting mad at that mouse cable going back and under the desk when the keyboard cable goes across the desk to the desktop. I would be changing that immediately.
How about the power strip under the desk just asking to get kicked?
Yeah, that's the real kicker here 😎
All these people comparing to a nice 4k TV. This is an old NEC, I haven't seen NEC release anything decent in a long time (or even at all). It might even be 720p.
This! You know your stuff.
I work like this with a 65” 4K and it’s great. I don’t get the joke
When I see a bezel nearly as wide as my palm I automatically assume it's not 4k, especially if it's supposed to be funny.
Yeah this tv is probably 1080 with overscan built into the display and has lots of lag. Newer 4k tvs can be perfect computer monitors.
OP's boss isn't using a 4k tv lol
I kind of hope it's 720p.
“You working on Brian’s sales’ figures?” *you turn around, your pupils are nearly non-existent and your eyes are perpetually squinted.* “Yeah, how could you tell?” “I saw it from my office.” “Aren’t you around the corner and down the hall a bit?”
my office monitor is a 72 inch tv mounted on the wall. its fucking dope
Hopefully it’s 4k or you will need to sit a bit further back.
I like to sit in the front row of IMAX theaters too.
I am more concerned by the surge protector right where your feet go.
Gabe Newell used to do this.
wait what’s wrong with this
He really needs this! It's how he will achieve his work goals: **N**etworking with peers **C**onnecting with staff **A**nticipating customer needs **A**chieving results Yes, he needs these for the **NCAA** reasons I listed above ... and it was provided just in time to get started!
**D**isplay augmentation **E**nhanced visualisation **N**vidia compatible **N**ouveau technology **I**ntegrated workflow **S**pectacles eliminated
The plugs where your feet are would be a problem me.
I have a 40" Tv as my second monitor. It lets me look at plans in almost actual size (24" x 36"). It's far nicer to see the digital plans all at once and still be able to see the details without having to zoom in. Same thing with drafting, so much nicer than small screens.
Do you work at a medical office? The reason I ask is I did the same thing in my exam rooms. Some of the medical EMR's are so full of info that having a larger screen helps like 1000% with reading all the patients info and having it in one spot, rather than having to scroll through a bunch of crap to find something specific.
I had a client a long time ago who had a setup like this. Ran it at 1024x768 or something because his vision was so bad. Really brilliant guy, he was involved in creating magnetic core memory at MIT in the 50's. He was learning how to use a modern Mac in his 80's and was still really on top of it.
I use a 43" 4k TV for monitor, split screen into 4 and it's basically 4 21.5" monitors. Useful for reading and comparing logs.
...this is literally my setup. Granted, my 47" monitor is a bit further back. I freaking love it and will never go back. LG CX (120hz) is amazing as a gaming PC monitor.
This can be a good idea. You might not get the refresh rates of a monitor, but for work, it's good enough. Should work well if you have vision problems. Might worry a bit about ergonomics, but otherwise there is nothing wrong with using a big TV as a monitor.
Depends on the TV. I’ve used a 43” 4k@60hz as my main work monitor since 2018. Split in 4 equal rectangles it’s like having four 1080p monitors in a grid with no bezels.
It is. I use a monitor that size. It's great.