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I don't know why you guys keep going on and on about size. It's about how you use it (resolution). I miss 16:10 E: Welcome to page 12.
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GreenNight posted:The accounting manager is very specific that everyone gets the same monitors, so new people? Enjoy your dual 17" LCD monitors. Posted this in another thread, but as part of the office redesign (in which we are going from cubicles with at least some sound muffling, to a boiler room with no barriers anywhere kill me) the loving MARKETING director made a serious push to take away all but one monitor for each developer. Because, I poo poo you not, more monitors create visual barriers and SHE DIDN'T WANT THAT. The difference is my manager is not a useless pantywaist and told them where they could shove that horseshit. He can't build a wall between us and the loud people, but he can make sure we at least have the technical equipment we need to build and maintain the only thing the company can make money selling. Can't imagine what life must be like for managers that useless; they must live every day terrified that someone might ask them to live up to even one of their responsibilities.
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Apr 12, 2017 10:05
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They are probably blissfully ignorant and are misinterpreting their current role as being based on their abilities rather than the result of the Peter principle.
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Apr 12, 2017 10:07
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spankmeister posted:Smdh if you give people anything less than 24" screens. I honestly don't know how I could do my work on a tiny rear end 19" anymore. Same. I'm rocking two Dell U24XX's, and would shank someone if they tried to make me go back to one, let alone some titchy 19" piece of poo poo.
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Apr 12, 2017 10:18
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Yawgmoth posted:Alternatively, just send back "yes." I do this so often that it isn't even funny anymore gotta keep it fresh
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Apr 12, 2017 15:42
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I have a 34" curved ultra wide and 2 22" 1080 monitors on my desk at work. It was supposed to be a loaner, but personnel shuffling made it such that reclaiming it never happened. I am the 1%.
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Apr 12, 2017 16:39
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I have been using a couple of matched 23" 1080p screens on a dual-head arm at work for a few years now, but since I discovered the joy of a 4K TV at home I've been agitating for my manager to allow me to order a curved Samsung to use on my desk as a 4-monitors-in-one sort of thing. For some reason he doesn't want to approve the $900 even though there are lots of Thunderbolt and 34" ultrawide displays in the office, so I settled for a 32" 1440p at only $350. I'm hoping that it will be delivered today and manage to scratch that itch well enough. Organizations that have the money but are cheap about monitor space baffle me, we actually had a push here several years back to make sure everyone who wanted a second display was able to get one. Lots of people just get one and use it with their laptops' built in screens though, which is understandable since most people have MBPs.
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Apr 12, 2017 16:55
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I'm still using an Apple 23" Cinema display with my laptop. I think this thing is like 12 years old. I'm kinda cheap. We normally either deploy 2 22" monitors, or one 27" monitor to users. Dell P-series, so nothing overly fancy. However, we have deployed a Dell U3415W and have a couple more on order for some graphic designers we support. Starting to wonder about how I can justify having one.
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Apr 12, 2017 16:57
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I brought in a second monitor from home because my tiny laptop screen plus one 27 inch monitor wasnt enough. This monitor was one that my friend had stopped using on his personal wall mount, so it didnt have a stand. So I used some creative engineering to have it propped up at my desk for a second monitor. Someone in IT saw that and gave me a second company monitor so I didnt have to use the one I brought in. Much to his exasperation, now I am using three monitors  Tempted to post a picture...
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Apr 12, 2017 17:15
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We're moving to a new workspace which is coming with two of literally the cheapest non-tn monitors they could find. Before that, the process before was that new hires were given a budget of $200 to find a monitor, keyboard, and mouse on the corporate buying website, which had to be approved by some anonymous employee somewhere. Anything above and beyond you had to purloin from cubes of people who left, or convince that same global buying site that one of your original items had broke.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:21
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DigitalRaven posted:Same. I'm rocking two Dell U24XX's, and would shank someone if they tried to make me go back to one, let alone some titchy 19" piece of poo poo. Whatever, I love my 19s. I've got 2 2408wfp's and 3 1908FP's The 19's are great for terminal work and they're also great for the workbench since they don't take up too much space.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:22
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fishmech posted:Dell will still sell you a 17 inch 1280x1024 monitor for $130 http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=210-AGPO a 19 inch one for $200 http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=210-AIIJ . There's also a 15 inch 1024x768 monitor with touchscreen for $517 which looks to be meant for point of sale use http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=A7897928 Dell 1280x1024 19" crew checkin' in...
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AlexDeGruven posted:I have a 34" curved ultra wide and 2 22" 1080 monitors on my desk at work. It was supposed to be a loaner, but personnel shuffling made it such that reclaiming it never happened. Yep, 34" Curved Dell, 24" 1080 in portrait and my 15" MBP screen. Now, I bought the 34" Dell for a high maintenance PIA user who had issues running two, but then I immediately recovered it a year later after they got bounced.
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Apr 12, 2017 17:51
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Two 24" 1920x1200 screens, one portrait for email and documents, the other landscape for everything else. 16:10 supremacy.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:02
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Collateral Damage posted:16:10 supremacy. I'm in the process of getting my two Dell UltraSharps off my desk at work and onto a proper arm.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:17
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I have a Dell U2311H at my desk, hooked up to my lovely HP laptop. A few months back, one of our remote only employees left. Sent back all his stuff, including his monitor. It all sat in our work area, untouched, for 3 weeks. So I grabbed the monitor so I could have two, since a few other guys here have two. A week goes by, and I get dragged into my Director's office and literally called a thief for using company resources. Second monitor goes away immediately. Another week goes by, my co-worker who does a bunch of SQL queries, etc is sitting down with the director and the guy goes "I can't read this poo poo on your tiny rear end screen". That afternoon, co-worker has 2 new 24" 1600x1200 screens on his desk. Ask me about my morale.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:25
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've got 2 2408wfp's Collateral Damage posted:16:10 supremacy. Thanks Ants posted:I'm in the process of getting my two Dell UltraSharps off my desk at work and onto a proper arm. I love this thread.
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Antioch posted:A week goes by, and I get dragged into my Director's office and literally called a thief for using company resources. Second monitor goes away immediately.  I'm glad I don't have any nice equipment or someone in the owner's family would take it for themselves. I cherish my HP ZR2440W.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:00
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I have three monitors at my office desk, all Dells: a U3014 in the center, and two P2213's, one turned vertically for ticket management. 2560x1600 flanked by two 1680x1050 workspaces is pretty baller. I have dual 1920x1080's at home. I bought them years ago and they're starting to show their age though, so I may upgrade one of them soon.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:11
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I work from home two days a week, and for the first little while of this I was using my 55" TV with my trusty old 19" 5:4 Soyo LCD that I won in 2005. When somebody left the company a while back they sent back their 24" and you better believe I snatched that up to take my TV's place as my primary monitor. Now I can work while watching The Price Is Right and at the office I use matched 23" monitors.
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Apr 12, 2017 20:07
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Dell 1280x1024 19" crew checkin' in... I use one of those in portrait mode for keeping documentation up
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Apr 12, 2017 22:21
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That's a bottle of lotion and an anime poster away from being the most neckbearded thing I've seen all day.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:41
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's a bottle of lotion and an anime poster away from being the most neckbearded thing I've seen all day. So you saw something more neckbeardy than that earlier today?
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Apr 12, 2017 22:46
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duz posted:So you saw something more neckbeardy than that earlier today? my face.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:47
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:my face. Oh come one, "your mom" would have been perfect there.
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Apr 12, 2017 22:58
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Weatherman posted:Oh come one, "your mom" would have been perfect there. TWSS.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's a bottle of lotion and an anime poster away from being the most neckbearded thing I've seen all day.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's a bottle of lotion and an anime poster away from being the most neckbearded thing I've seen all day. Firefox is disgusting
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Apr 13, 2017 01:42
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Monitor talk reminds me of a dumb rear end-ticket from a bit back. We had a special snowflake doing some heavy number crunching or 3d modeling or gene sequencing or vr porn production ... something. So he somehow talked his boss into approving him a second computer just for the whatever, and keep his old one for email / lync/ web/ etc. But he didn't want another set of controls. So he got a KVM. Then he got a mechanical keyboard. That didn't work with the USB KVM - its USB port didn't put out enough power. So we had to get him a powered USB hub to sit between the KVM and the keyboard. Then he thought the USB hub was ugly and cluttered his desk so we had to get him a monitor with built-in hub. Then he figured out that he could have two monitors despite the KVM, because he needed to constantly monitor - ha - what the other computer was doing. Then he got a fancy new mouse. Every time he KVM switched, however, one of the computers (the old one, I think) lost track of the mouse. One of my coworkers found a workaround - unplug and replug the mouse from the hub (the one in the monitor). Because he only had to switch once or twice a day, he was happy to - haha, no. In the end, I found the solution by pure dumb luck: if there was another mouse plugged into that computer, it would see the KVM mouse just fine. So I took a broken mouse, further broke it, and plugged it in behind said computer. I labeled it as follows: MORE MAGIC Leave me plugged in or KVM will misbehave.
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Apr 13, 2017 02:33
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Weatherman posted:Oh come one, "your mom" would have been perfect there. The only time his mother would go in there is to clean.
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Apr 13, 2017 03:37
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sfwarlock posted:Monitor talk reminds me of a dumb rear end-ticket from a bit back. I actually got a mechanical keyboard and somehow they screwed up and bought the clicky blue version instead of browns. Somehow they didn't want to send it back even though I insisted it would drive everyone mad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Still have to get my Gamer Mouse approved because I have huge hands and these lovely Dell mice aren't cutting it.
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Apr 13, 2017 09:50
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sfwarlock posted:Then he figured out that he could have two monitors despite the KVM, because he needed to constantly monitor - ha - what the other computer was doing. I've unironically used KVMs in this kind of manner more than once. One way is a dual-screen setup for my "usual" work computer, and then other configurations pull up build machines or whatever on the second monitor. that said pretty much every setup I've ever used at work and home ends up an organically-grown mess of  to bystanders that I swear has a reason to exist, sothat said kvms are the devil and kvms for dual link DVI are worse
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sfwarlock posted:Monitor talk reminds me of a dumb rear end-ticket from a bit back. I have encountered the bit about having to plug an extra mouse in to make the PC recognise the mouse in the KVM before. However, a long time after I figured that out, the user requested something and I needed to remove the mouse so I said your computer might stop working whilst I move these wires around etc. It didn't For some reason the PC no longer requires the 2nd peripheral. Give it a year or so and you'll be fine 
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SEKCobra posted:I actually got a mechanical keyboard and somehow they screwed up and bought the clicky blue version instead of browns. Somehow they didn't want to send it back even though I insisted it would drive everyone mad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have blues at work. I'm in my own office but the hallway gets heavy traffic. That keyboard works wonders to reduce interruptions as I'm a fast typist and nobody wants to interrupt the cacophony when I'm writing an email or making a post on SA.
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Apr 13, 2017 13:28
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Laptop screen for life. Yes I have a hunchback and blurry vision but it's worth the tradeoff.
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Apr 13, 2017 14:33
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Bigass Moth posted:Laptop screen for life. Yes I have a hunchback and blurry vision but it's worth the tradeoff. What's the pro there?
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Please don't doxx me tia
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Apr 13, 2017 15:36
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sfwarlock posted:Monitor talk reminds me of a dumb rear end-ticket from a bit back. I know this issue is probably long solved, but you should have checked out Synergy. https://symless.com/synergy It was open source for a long time on SourceForge I think, but then some company took over and added some new features. It still works and is made for exactly the kind of situation you're describing.
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sfwarlock posted:MORE MAGIC Bless you for labelling it.
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