Ya know if a company is gonna have you work from home they should be paying for your whole office set up :| desk, chair, monitors etc. At least the materials you need.
It's painful to not be able to see everything at once.
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ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 10 months ago
nolannice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For me it’s the opposite, if they want me to come back into the office they should at least pay for some decent monitors at the workstations.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
pay for some decent
ROFL my laptop at work was low-mid when it was built in 2017
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My work gave me $1000 for office stuff to work from home. They also provided a KB/mouse, three 1080p 24" monitors, a UPS, brand new laptop, a dock for the laptop, cables, a headset, etc.
I already had my system set up for work from home including two 1080p displays, a 1440p display, mechanical keyboard, wireless mouse with charging mouse pad… Even a headset and KVM.
I spent the money on an additional battery for my homelab rack (which will extend the uptime of my firewall during a power outage.
I’m pretty happy with my setup, I combined everything, and decommissioned my oldest display, and bought myself a laptop stand, so when I’m on my PC (selected from the KVM), I have five displays, three wide, and two above. When I select my work laptop, the laptop screen becomes a sixth monitor, and the stand props it up to be one of the top displays, so I have a 3x2 grid of displays.
I’m usually fine with three for my personal use, but more are not unwelcome, at work I was pushing from three to four pretty consistently in the past few years.
Though, I find that having a 1920x1200 or 1440p display set up in portrait is usually pretty helpful for work. So I can see more of a page. I wouldn’t recommend doing that with a 1080 display, since most sites that have a static width are optimized for screens that are at least 1280x768 (around 720p) and going down from 1280 px wide to 1080px wide, results in some horizontal scrolling… Which is never fun.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You sure it’s not 1000$ for equipment you have to give back if you leave? That’s how it works for me
CptEnder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah my office paid for my new chair (old broke). Asked if I could have one of the Herman Miller’s we all used at the office since no one was there anymore but they just bought me a new one lmao that was really cash money of them. The Embody is easily the best chair I’ve ever sat in, it’s not even close.
kelargo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you get an electricity allowance?
psmgx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I could go from 3 to 2, but no way in hell I’m going back to a 14" eye destroyer. Not when generic 24" monitors are cheap and have adequate refresh rates for most tasks.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I use three monitors and could use a fourth one (ultra wide) for some specific tasks, meanwhile my colleague that does the same job is working from a 13" laptop screen sitting on a cushion at her coffee table…
mikyopii@programming.dev 10 months ago
I don’t know if I would want to do it all the time, but I have come to appreciate the workflow when using a single monitor. I feel like I’m more focused.
nikita@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ikr. Though it’s largely dependent on the kind of work you’re doing, I find that for myself a 1 monitor setup is sufficient.
I feel like I was moving documents around too much when I had multiple. Or that it would make me lazy cause I didn’t bother closing something I was finished with.
That being said — widescreens are wear it’s at.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A second monitor is really useful for sticking post-it notes to though.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I specifically trained myself away from it when I went to working remote. I don’t want to be tied to my desk when I could spend my day at the park, beach, coffee shop, bar, on a boat, or Disneyland and still get work done.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Luckily we have portable monitors now for when you’re away from your dock
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Build/test code on one screen
Write code on another screen
Attend bullshit waste of my fucking time meeting on 3rd screen
bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wheres your monitor for email and IM?
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I only have 3 you jerk
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I recently downsized from 2 to 1. NGL, I miss the second in some circumstances, but I also don’t miss the inclination to have YouTube or Netflix constantly open if I’m not using the second for anything else.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 10 months ago
bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I ended up buying a portable 15" monitor so that when I’m forced to work on laptop, I have the option to use dual display. Basically the same size as a large tablet.
tankplanker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I went from 3 to 2, as I went from 2x24@1080p + 1x34@1440p to 2x32@4k. I the jump to 4k with such large screens meant I have a massive more amount of usable screen real estate especially as I do not use any scaling on the screens, although I do marginally increase the font size. I can manage six windows per screen all neatly tiled as long as its not my IDE, that I need a good 2/3rd of the screen to actually be useful for me.
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway. I particularly like how the virtual desktops work on Sway as I have separate virtual desktops per screen, makes them actually useful for me. Typically I have two per screen, IDE/Terminal and Discord/Signal/Music, Multiple Browser windows and Email/Teams/Office.
englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway.
“I use sway BTW” 😉
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This was never not the case for me.
In CRT era there was just no contest, the resolution (the amount of data displayed) alone was worlds apart. Yet I only ever had one CRT connected at a time.
Once the LCDs became minimally viable for me I just never disconnected the previous LCD when upgrading/buying another one (I’ve always been a “main screen + support screens” sort of operator).
Finally LCDs and OLEDs became just too big (and tiling much much better) to have “too many” monitors.
Yet there are times when I wish I had a mini monitor (one of those candy bar screens where I would just have Signal or something, about 480×1920 pixels, they are cheap but I then remember how silly the need is and don’t want to further consumerism for needles thighs).Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I remember when one crt was like 800x600 and another 1280x1024. Worlds apart.
Another time, another battle.
b0gl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I was using dual monitors back before LCDs became the norm. I always had a splitting headache from looking at the screens. It went away with LCDs.
joneskind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I must be lucky because I have a laptop + 2 24" 4K monitors setup and it turns out it is too much for me. Now I just use my laptop in clamshell mode with one horizontal monitor in landscape and the other portrait, but I wonder if won’t sell one those and keep the vertical one aside my open laptop.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
“Clamshell mode”. That’s cool. I’m stealing that.
joneskind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TBH I didn’t invent it. I think it’s the way Apple refers to a closed Mac laptop since the clamshell iBook. And since I’m not a native English speaker I usually find the expression easier to use.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 10 months ago
me too, thx
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imagine me working on a 6.8" phone and a bluetooth keyboard…
It’s enough for writing documentation, and for a while I was top notch at writing my docs at my underpaid job, but then I went through multiple burnout, while my sleep progressively got worse.
Hopefully they won’t extend my contract after November, so I can finally sleep when I want, and not when people that feed their chickens at 5:00AM do.
zod000@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It’s too early to call me out like this man, I’m not caffeinated.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
And the one screen is also smaller unless you get a desktop replacement laptop with an 18’ screen.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
a desktop replacement laptop with an 18’ screen.
I don’t have the space for a laptop like that!
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Nothing like placing the SUN directly on your lap! Raw dawg it! 🤣
bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
14" is my jam. Hits my sweet spot between portability and usefulness. My work gave me some giant monstrosity (Dell precision 17"). It’s horrible and stays in it’s docking station. I refuse to take it on trips.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Just got a 32" 4k OLED and can’t work from a laptop anymore.
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I have a nice widescreen monitor standing unused at my desk and I work sitting cross legged in my armchair with a laptop on my lap.
lobut@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I have a portable monitor just in case and I bust it out if there’s no monitor for me to plug in.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Virtual desktops are a lifesaver, 3 finger swipe on the trackpad to go to the next screen
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I need to be able to see what I’m referencing while working
The constant swap between virtual desktops is a pain
However I do wish material shell (tiling) treated separate monitors as separate virtual desktops so I could swap left>right and up>down
NOPper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Man, I’ve been running i3 at home for years and using Windows for work kills my efficiency so hard. Lemme have my billion virtual desktops and move tiles in half a second so I can stop dragging shit all over! I do use PowerToys to help a bit but it’s just not the same when you’re used to a kwyboard-centric workflow.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I use multiple workspaces for different workflows. CAD software, reference material, etc. on one workspace, email, Slack, Trello etc. open on another.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 10 months ago
Different vd is different workspace for me. One for project x the next for y, one for gaming…
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I just tested if it works on GNOME, did couple swipes trying until I realized I have disabled trackpad in bios >.>
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Rip lol. I don’t think it works in gnome, I almost put that in my comment lol. It works in mint, but I’m not even sure if it’s in base ubuntu.
ramirezmike@programming.dev 10 months ago
tiling window managers with multiple desktops is such a productivity boost and makes single screen work effortless. I don’t think I’ll ever use a traditional floating window os again
nexas_XIII@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had that and had to explain to the department why 6 monitors essentially (3 physical monitors with 2 virtual desktops on each) was not the same as 6 other monitors (2 physical monitors with 3 virtual desktops on each).
meekah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I use Xfce for my media laptop and was wondering why anyone would use virtual desktops when the buttons on the top panel are so tiny and annoying to click
Then I recently found out you can move your cursor all the way to the left or right edge and scroll with your mouse wheel to switch virtual desktops.
Made me consider actually using virtual desktops lol
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There’s a lot of keyboard and gesture shortcuts that make them easier to use on most OS’s
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 months ago
Both!