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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Beep@lemmus.org⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shake till it gets big

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    • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      😐 What gets big exactly?

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      • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “yes”

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      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pp

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is there a way to define a home location for the cursor and have a key combination to send it there?

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        xdotool mousemove 0 0

        Replace the 0 0 with your desired coordinates if you don’t want the ‘home location’ to be at the top left.

        Then use xbindkeys to bind your desired key combination to run that command.

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  • Overspark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat…

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    • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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      • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors

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      • Overspark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It really doesn’t, and I day that as someone who often had 3 or 4 monitors on his desk 😂

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    • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Needs a log scale x-axis

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah and the wild thing is that the importance axis is cut-off, by the time it reaches 10+ screens that’s the single most important employee who if they were runover by a bus tomorrow, the company will just randomly implode one day when something only they know how to maintain just falls over and no contractor can untangle the spaghetti infrastructure.

        The thing is, they haven’t had a pay rise since screen 6 but somehow are just unphased even by inflation.

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    • TransNeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      nope. you just need to adjust a few things. 2 monitors for corporate serfs (rename middle management to serfs) and 4+ for corporate slaves. upper management gets a laptop and a normal monitor. executives can stay the same. CEO needs 2 phones.

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      • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        CEO needs 2 phones

        Is the second one for the coke dealer?

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think the current dogma is CEO gets a phone with 2 screens.

        Soon to be 3 with the Samsung (You can’t afford it anyways).

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay I use a 50” TV as a monitor. What am I?

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      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unemployed?

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      • Overspark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Those executive ultabook, touch screen super thin and lites are such shit. Fragile, usually run hot, sometimes the SSD is even soldered, and fuck you if you want to get parts or service.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Too real

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 27 screens ?

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the workstation from “Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” Swordfish.

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      • Haquer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” We need more of these

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      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Despite the moving itself sucking, that’s a rad looking setup. I mean, it would suck to use for actual work, but its cool as hell.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What aren’t they doing?

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    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      IDK but I’ve seen pics of 911 operator setups with some absurd number of screens and I bet there’s a lot of stuff that would be useful for them to have open.

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      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Makes sense yeah. I guess at this point it’s a monitoring station more than a computer, i.e the operator is not gonna have many interactions with it other than looking at the screens

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      • KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.

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      • philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, but not that many.

        Usual setup nowadays: One monitor for the main CAD (computer aided dispatch) forms, one for map overview, eventually a third one for a unit overview(theye are often done on the map monitor these days), one for external data (browser window, video feeds,etc.), one below as a touchscreen for communication control (VoIP/Radio).

        Most EMS Dispatch clients I have switched to a three+one touch setup ages by now and rather use a central dashboard for some less important views and feeds.

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    • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a friend who works for Transpower (company in charge of NZ electric grid) and occasionally goes into their control rooms. Apparently they have set ups like this. It gets worse, because there are several computers hooked up to the different monitors, so not only do they have a wall of monitors, they have a bunch of different keyboards and mice (mouses?) that they have to hunt through if they want to actually interact with something

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      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There’s no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.

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      • lordziv@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Kiwi gang!

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      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There is crossplatform software for mouse/keyboard sharing.

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    • VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.

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    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Gooning

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve seen stock traders where everyone on the floor had half that many. A few of them had 9.

      When they’re looking up trades or news, they open a ridiculous number of windows while doing research.

      They have 4 screens just to watch the markets and handle in-house controls.

      What’s striking about this is the amount of whitespace on the screens. They are only using 1/2 - 1/4 of their screen space.

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    • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I work in ATC and we have several desks with around 12 to 18 screens. Not in that layout tho, but on a much larger banana form.

      They are used at different work positions, mostly for monitoring but also used with keyboard and mouse.

      The applications goes from technical surveillance of ops systems, to flow capacity (airspace capacity), meteo broadcast for all airports (ATIS) or ground-ground telecommunications of aeronautical data.

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    • lbfgs@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Traders love doing this

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    • skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a cropped version of a BBC office someone could see from their apartment

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I remember that post, and that only makes it stranger. What is the BBC doing that requires that many monitors?

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    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.

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    • DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Russian space program

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    • scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      IIRC when keemstar posted it, it’s a BBC office

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  • raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup

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    • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When you have that many monitors they’re literally just monitoring. 15 FPS is fine for that.

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  • username_1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    xeyes is a classic X Window program that helps finding the cursor (looks like a pair of eyes looking at the direction of the cursor)

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    • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We don’t talk about Xorg in 2026.

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      • username_1@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pfah, I dare even dislike the syntax of Rust.

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      • notabot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Xorg 4 lyfe!

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    • blueday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lol I remember installing and running this, and just thought, wow, this wasn’t worth it. 30 years later the use was made clear and I should’ve thought about it when I first went multimonitor.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Recommend PowerToys if you’re forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.

      It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable

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  • gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    his background image: Image

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I just saw a windows 95 era gradient until i zoomed in

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whoa, slow down there Satan.

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  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    On KDE Plasma when you shake the cursor it gets bigger, with no size limit.

    On macOS it also does but there is a limit.

    I don’t know whether Windows does because I’ve never used it, but I’d assume so.

    Neither do I know about other DEs.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think you can enable something where you can press control and it will put a big circle around your cursor but it’s not enabled by default which is stupid and it’s not obvious because it’s a random keyboard key.

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      • lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a utility under PowerToys called Find My Mouse.

        You can set it to either the left or right Control key, shake the cursor or a customer shortcut.

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    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For those interested, there is a gnome extension called Wiggly that does this a similar thing.

      Used to be called Wiggle, but development and bug fixing seems to have stopped on that one.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is it. This is the threshold of where a VR headset and a virtual desktop manager makes more sense.

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  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ray Bradbury warned us of this

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The misalignments on those monitors hurts me in a way that is almost physical…

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You may not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics look like

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I refuse to believe that this setup is actually efficient. You cannot possibly actually need that much information on screen at the same time. I think Houston mission control has less going on than this.

    This is just having a lot of screens for the sake of it.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, I’ve owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.

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  • WandowsVista@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    www.tweaktown.com/news/48291/…/index.html

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  • Sisyphe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.

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  • comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yes, Matrox’s last bastion of business: ridiculous monitor counts across 2 or 3 Matrox C680 cards.

    It’s even more ridiculous when you use 15 x 85" OLED TVs for some company doing a C&C room.

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have had friends and coworkers send this meme to me repeatedly because my WFM setup is closer to this than I’d like to admit. Fuck it though, I find it helpful.

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  • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Y’all never heard of workspaces? 🤨

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In KDE the more you shake the mouse the bigger the cursor gets till it takes up one whole screen

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe that would be a better screen setup?
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  • xspurnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A least he’s getting enough light. Maybe not the right wavelength though.

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I work at a stock brokerage and I can confirm this is exactly the screen layouts these people have. By these people I’m talking about day traders I don’t actually know what this person is doing.

    And yes they do look across all of those screens. I sat next to a guy who had six screens arranged in 3x2, the way he explained it he has all sorts of programs mostly in the domains of communication and news and he doesn’t even look at the other screens but when something moves it triggers his peripheral vision and he acts on it. Another day trader I know has nine screens in 3x3 but he only uses the bottom half of his screen real estate because he can’t read the top, he just likes having a big rectangular-like screen.

    It’s all about peripheral vision to these kinds of professionals. They are 100% not looking at all of those screens, they just need to set up things to react to.

    This guy is a meme though nobody is reacting to something happening right above your head.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Somone needs to make a program that greys out any monitor that the cursor isn’t on.

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  • Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    8K ultrawide monitor in a nutshell(if we assume that each individual monitor has 1080p resolution).

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ask those fucking monitors and they couldn’t spare a few hundred each on better chairs?

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The dream

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  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just use Xeyes app

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For windows, powertools has settings to help find the cursor bt shaking it or to highlight it, etc. i fond it helpful with just 2 monitors sometimes

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