• barsquid@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I don’t understand how this guy has an audience. I saw one video that was alright where he cleaned a water-cooling system. The rest were like, “look at all this garbage we bought on Aliexpress lol,” and I bounce after several seconds.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        He’s got a lot of charisma. And his videos frequently give that “people doing something they should have prepared more for but pushing through anyways” entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he’s in way over his head, but somehow still manages to keep it going.

        It’s a weird spot where I like the guy and want to see him succeed but also don’t think he deserves that success and want to see him fail.

        Though I don’t really spend much time watching hardware enthusiast videos in general, so I probably won’t see either of those unless it goes viral like his last shitshow did.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he’s in way over his head

          I liked the time when he tried to use linux and ended up destroying his os by blindly following googled command line instructions

          • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I would’ve done exactly the same, seeing how I am also a newbie at using Linux distros. Who would’ve thought trying to install Steam would result in your GUI being deleted.

            • overload@sopuli.xyz
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              6 months ago

              That update bugwas so ridiculously poorly timed for the Linux community. Especially considering he said Pop OS was beginner friendly

          • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            He used to have some charisma lol. Also the early Linus Tech Tips content, like back when they were running it out of someone’s house, was usually pretty entertaining. Back then the content was much more silly and creative though, and much less corporatized.

      • KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social
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        7 months ago

        I watch because its stupid. Its like why Call of Duty exists. Just dumb fun that doesn’t require much thought to enjoy. Sometimes you just need some good dumb fun and can’t be serious all the time.

      • overload@sopuli.xyz
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        7 months ago

        For people interested in tech edutainment he’s alright and has mad appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

        So much terrible click bait has meant I haven’t bothered clicking in a year or so though.

        • Iceblade@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Yeah he was much better a while back. Though that can be said for most of youtube. The algo messes up everything

        • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Same. I love any of their “infrastructure” type videos. One of my favorites is when their storage server almost kicked the bucket and they showed the unimaginably stressful recovery process.

          • Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            And even those videos show how little they know.

            They are fun to watch in a “kid goes wow at enterprise tech” kinda way.

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    You need to turn your head to read the line number.

    Besides, your lines shouldn’t be longer than 80 characters anyway

    • neo@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Well, as the picture says, with this bad boy you can use 86 characters per line.

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      80 characters

      Two hours and no-one’s challenged this? People must be asleep.

      (This is not that challenge. Only pointing out that someone usually has by now.)

    • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Eh, depends on the language and the context. I still use 80 for C, but I’ve found 120 to be a much more reasonable number for Java.

    • Hexarei@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      Java devs gotta be able to read the whole name of their WidgetFactoryBuilderRepositoryConstructorFactoryRepositoryBuilderFactoryRepositoryManagerBuilderFactoryRepositoryFactoryFactoryFactoryBuilderFactory

  • EtzBetz@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    There’s a point somewhere here, but people using apps in full screen with this screen are stupid

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I’m pretty judgemental of people who use more than one screen. Do you not have hotkeys to jump between bookmarked parts of your buffers? Is momentarily splitting a screen between two programs so difficult? Does Alt-Tab simply not exist in your universe?

    The judgement continues.

    • chrizzowski@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I’m an architect. It’s nice having the project I’m actively working on always active on one screen, with design sketches, marked up revisions, email with comments from client, renderer etc. active on the other. Sure it only saves a second not having to tab back and forth, but if you’re doing it non stop all day it makes a big difference. Also just less effort.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        I guess I can see for more UI oriented stuff how it can be useful to have on persistent graphic window

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      • A glance to the side is much faster and easier than pressing physical buttons

      • You can see stuff with your peripheral vision. With alt-tab, you don’t see if anything is happening at all

      • Alt-tab is linear, screens are 2d

      • You can’t tile absolutely everything unless your screen is huge and has very high resolution, at which point it turns into rich people’s version of multi-monitor setup, since a bunch smaller screens are much cheaper than single big one

      • Alt-tab list changes constantly. But some apps are likely to be constantly there, you can throw them on separate screens and unclutter the main one by doing so

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Alt-tab was my very last use-case because I literally have bindings to pull up my main programs.

        As someone who has gone from tiling(i3), to floating (stump), to tiling again (i3/sway), and finally back to floating (awesome) - I can say floating wins in terms of predictability. You press a button to focus on your desired window and your entire desktop does not need to convulse to accommodate for it.

        Floating window managers win on speed and predictability, and I’m wondering now if this is causing the rift in single/multi monitors in this discussion chain.

        • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          I didn’t really mean “tile” as in tiling WM, more like that if you’re this type of guy, then you could just just put everything you’d ever need somewhere on one screen, never maximize anything, and then nothing’s ever going to be out of sight.

          My setup is mostly static, with 6 screens, so I rarely even switch windows on screen. I’ve got top-left for whatever is making sounds - music, movies, youtube, etc. Top-right is for the stock charts. Left is for comms - I’ve got all chats tiled up in there, but if I’m in the videocall I’ll fullscreen that, or, if I’m focusing, I put documentation and references there. Middle for IDE, right for the app I’m working on and a front-end debugger. There’s also bottom screen for a back-end debugger, a live database view and a small log tail. Top two screens are stationary that I only use at home, so I don’t need them when I’m out working. The rest are set up so that I don’t ever have anything important out of view. It’s exceptionally good when I’m debugging - I can see, live, absolutely everything that’s going with the app, from rendered page down to db data, click through steps and instantly see what happens where. It also saves me some time, as with one screen I would sometimes forget I was debugging after doing something different in IDE, and then wonder why tf is my app not responding. With debug always open this is never the case. I also set up win+WASD to jump between windows by direction, which in most cases means jumps between screens, so win+w - space would stop whatever is making a noise. When I’m off work, I usually surf or game on my middle screen, tops stay the same, so does the left, bottom switches to PC performance metrics, and right usually has something that controls the PC itself, like fan curves or sound mixer. Surely I could do with a single screen, and I actually went single-multiple-single-multiple before. The second cycle really taught me some window discipline. On the first go at multi-screen I got a short boost of productivity but then fell into a pit where I would have stuff all over the place, constantly switching and leaving apps forgotten on others. It wasn’t until after returning to single that I’ve realized exactly what I want out separated and consistent in one place.

          floating (awesome)

          Did you seriously set up awesome as a floating window manager? You monster! Jk, do whatever fits you

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            Ah I see what you mean by tiling. Still, such a setup feels… excessive, no? I can completely understand that you literally never need to pull up anything since it’s all just there, but I dunno (I’m reaching here) doesn’t your machine get hot from all the displays and forcing all screens to do constant screen updates?

            It just seems unneccesary to me (like I said, I’m judgemental on this front). When you have to travel, you can’t take all that with you – so working on a laptop at the airport must be incredibly frustrating if you’re used to things just being there, no?

            Did you seriously set up awesome as a floating window manager?

            Haha, yes, the other layouts are wasted on me. Ideally a dwm desktop would suit me fine, but I enjoy the Lua extensibility.

            • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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              6 months ago

              Ah I see what you mean by tiling. Still, such a setup feels… excessive, no? I can completely understand that you literally never need to pull up anything since it’s all just there, but I dunno (I’m reaching here) doesn’t your machine get hot from all the displays and forcing all screens to do constant screen updates?

              It is excessive yes, but I’m all about going above and beyond, sort of say. It doesn’t really get hot since it doesn’t update if there’s nothing to update - I’ve checked in the driver. Actually an error in said driver might have put an end to my windows journey on this machine, as some bug was causing all screens to not refresh unless there was any app doing a draw somewhere. It does use quite a bit of VRAM, though(~1.5 gigs) but that doesn’t matter when I’m working as I turn off the dGPU and the iGPU uses RAM which I have plenty. I used to just grab this machine and go to the nearest restaurant with poor internet(less distractions) and focus on work until the battery dies, and I’ve consistently got 2-2.5 hours off.

              When you have to travel, you can’t take all that with you – so working on a laptop at the airport must be incredibly frustrating if you’re used to things just being there, no?

              I do travel with it. It is a bit frustrating, yes, but as mentioned, the quad-screen setup is portable and I can pull it even in an airport given enough space. The problem is TSA, they used to not give a damn about laptops, but the last time I moved, they forced everyone to take out laptops and turn them on, at every one of the 4 airports I went through. But I had like 5 on me: My personal one w/extra screens, a corporate issued one as a spare, a tiny laptop that I used to carry in my pocket which saved me quite a few times, and also a colleague asked me to grab his laptop and iPad to pass off to his relatives. All this, along with a few HDD’s, was just enough to fit into a carry-on bag. But checkpoints were all something like:

              • Is that your stuff?
              • [On reflex already] Yes, and that thing in there is a vape, not a hand-gr…
              • Do you have any laptops in there?
              • Five
              • Five what?
              • Five laptops
              • Come here, put them out on this table and turn all of them on
              • 😩😩😩 It’s going to take like 10 minutes to pack and unpack, and I’ve got a flight to catch
              • Don’t know, don’t care

              5 minutes later

              • Alright, everything’s good. Why’d you need so many for, anyway?
              • I’m an IT specialist
              • Okay. But what’s this though?
              • It’s 4 hard drives
              • Take them out, show me
              • 😩 Sure…
              • Okay, everything seems in order. Why’d you need so many for, though?
              • I’m an IT specialist
              • Ah, right… You’re free to go

              I could’ve saved myself trouble and put all them into a checked baggage, but since I was moving through some totalitarian dictatorship states, I’d rather have all the data close to me rather than have it pulled out and searched without my consent, which they are likely to do given that they forced people to hand off unlocked phones for search before.

              • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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                6 months ago

                Well it sounds like your desktop is pretty scalable - no matter how many monitors - so that’s pretty good.

                And hah yeah, it might be worth investing in a badge that reads “Hi, I’m an IT specialist, this all normal” and pinning it on your shirt before you enter customs

    • bbuez@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      You may find the need for 3 different aspect ratios, just to be sure you’re doing the whole user interface thing right. Judge if you like but here I still need to have multiple workspaces and stacked windows, so clearly the extra retail space works. Or its obnoxious and I’m merely coping.

      Also fuck games that still dont work with alt tab in this day and age

      • Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        There are games like that? The only games that don’t like it I find are the old computer games that are already troublesome to run on a modern Windows machine

        • bbuez@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Oh dont even get me started on modded Minecraft, I’m really not sure what makes it worse for alt tabbing over just older versions, maybe its just selection bias, but it’s like one mod can decide that it no longer wants to go fullscreen, and I don’t think its fabric/forge

          KSP was another one that was just kinda finicky, I think it got better with patches

    • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Just because you can work with one monitor doesn’t mean multiple monitors isn’t more comfortable though. You can have multiple windows open at once, at full size, and glance between them freely. No need for them to share the limited real estate of a single monitor.

      I run Sway on my laptop because it lets me take full advantage of my single monitor, but on my multi monitor desktop setup I use a regular floating DE.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      What? Are you an actual developer.

      It’s pure insanity to work like you suggested. Sure it can be done, I used to work on a Mac and had no monitors but it wastes time switching between displays.

      I’ll work with 2-3 monitors.

      If it two then I’ll have my IDE on one and if I’m working on UI then I have the application open on the other. That way I change some CSS, save and glance left to see how it looks now. If I’m not doing UI work and I’m working on the server then my other monitor is used for the spec document, SQL server management and just web browsing.

      On a three monitor setup then the third one would be where I would keep my email client open with teams.

      I am literally at a loss for words with your weird take.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        On linux, using AwesomeWM bindings:

        • Caps+E, pull up emacs
        • Caps+D, pull up IDE
        • Caps+Q, pull up browser (repeated calls pull up different windows)
        • Caps+Y, pull up terminal
        • Caps+Down, split the last two called windows side by side
        • Caps+Down, undo the split
        • Caps+Up, maximize the current window

        I have many more bindings, but these are the main ones and probably the only one’s I will ever need

        If I need to do something concurrently I will split my focus between two tasks and no more.

        If I need to edit a UI with code, I do Caps+E, do my edit, then Caps+D and refresh the UI.

        I’m literally a finger away from everything, and my head does not need to move from center.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            Thank you! It’s not often that users on Lemmy reply with such openness and honesty, instead of hiding behind the skirt of sarcasm

            • witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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              6 months ago

              It was a bit tongue in cheek I know. I have a very similar setup, but why being judgemental with such a simple thing? It seems like a waste of time and energy. You need those to tweak the setup instead.

              • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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                6 months ago

                Cos. Superiority complex. No true hacker should need more than a harddrive and a needle to flip bits to do what they need to do in a pinch

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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          7 months ago

          Hey you do you bro I’m not about to tell you how to do your shit, but I think the consensus here is pretty clear.

          Anyways if it works for you then no harm no foul, just seems counter to anybody I’ve ever interacted with that’s a developer. (That’s sounds like I’m saying you’re not, and I don’t mean it that way.).

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    What would even be the design solution without massive empty space? Add a lot of columns? Make the long content horizontal instead of vertical?

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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      6 months ago

      I think for most web apps it doesn’t make sense to allow the width to get so wide, except when the content being displayed is a columnar list and even then it’s a pretty marginal benefit.

      What I’ve done is limit the max-width to some amount of px/chars and allowed the remaining space be empty, with an exception for when displaying tables. Even with tables, the bigger width is only beneficial if either the contents of the columns are large enough, or there are very many columns to show. The solution in my mind is limiting the column widths to the longest content.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      You could go columns for the content, but I think my ideal layout would still have the main content in a single column. I would put all of the chrome horizontally through. For example no header before and footer afterwards, put everything in different columns. Maybe even throw some extra navigation on the screen.

      You don’t need to use every pixel, just avoid putting things offscreen unnecessarily.

    • gentooer@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      This seems really cool for tiling windows managers (even Windows has tiling options, although I’m not familiar with those). That being said, I still prefer a multimonitor setup on my tiling WM of choice.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    So at what point does a VR headset end up actually being cheaper than your specialty odd-size curved monitor?

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I have 2 24" displays side by side. At some point I unified the desktops (or Spaces if you’re on Linux) to make it act “as if” it was a single ultra wide monitor. This was absolutely awful to use, especially during Google meetings where I had to share my screen.

    Besides, I like being able to rotate 90° one of my screen because sometimes it’s just the best way to work.

    This thing is stupid. Appealing maybe, but stupid.