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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:58:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Brian Dolbec posted on Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:08:30 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> >> > We could also increase the max. line length to something like |
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> >> > 120 or 130. |
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> >> I think more people should chime in on that. I use vertical splits |
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> >> for the screen when coding, and 120 characters is too long for me, |
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> >> but if the preferred width ends up changing to 120 or 130 I can |
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> >> work with it. |
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> > You need to get some large 4K monitors... love them :D I treated |
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> > myself to two 28 inch ones during boxing week sales. |
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> > My aging eyes love them :) They are so much better than my old 24 |
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> > inch 1080p monitors. Those were getting tired/starting to loos |
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> > clarity along with my eyes working at them all week long. I now |
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> > work with larger fonts which are still physically smaller than my |
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> > old monitors, but sooooo much clearer. My eyes don't get nearly so |
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> > tired as they did with my other monitors. |
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> > </bragging> ;) |
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> Posting resistance failing... |
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> Try a 65-inch 4K with a 48-inch 1080p (now the older monitor, often |
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> running youtube full-screen) off to the side. =:^) |
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> (They're actually TVs used as monitors via the HDMI input, no actual |
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> TV hooked up. Above about 32-inch, TVs tend to be cheaper than |
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> stand-alone monitors and of course they're the same 4K high or |
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> full-hd lower resolution these days.) |
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> Six 1280x1080 working windows three wide by two stacked on the 65" |
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> 4k, still set for 96 dpi standard, FreeMono Bold 9.0 in my konsole |
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> windows, yields: |
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> $ echo $COLUMNS x $LINES |
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> 179 x 78 |
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> And that's six of those on the 65" 4K, PLUS the full-screen 1080p |
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> youtube or whatever window on the 48". =:^) |
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> This is the first time I can honestly say I have enough screen space |
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> that most of the time I'm not actively using it all. =:^) |
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Yeah, I've seen lots of those types of setups. |
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Just a few years ago when I was an A/C mechanic for my day job, I |
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serviced A/C systems at numerous business's trading floors, where many |
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stations ran 2 or 3 pc's mostly to house/power the video cards to |
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drive 4,6, sometimes 8 monitors in a dual high setups, then numerous big |
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screens overhead in various places around the floor... |
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I don't think I could handle the large ones like you have, my eyes |
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haven't got the focal range for that anymore. As it is, I recently had |
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to pull my monitors closer about 8 inches because my eyes were getting |
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too tired by the end of the week. They were just too close to the |
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limits of my eyes and glasses. |
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I do need to get a decent video card to drive these new 4K's, then |
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maybe I'll think about re-connecting the old 24 inch 1080p's back up |
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to the old card too ;) But if I really needed more screen space, I'd |
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pick up 2 more of these 4k's, 2 video cards and spin them vertical ;) |
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That could make for a great driving/flight simulator :D |
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Brian Dolbec <dolsen> |