Has anyone else taken the small monitor pill? It's a hard pill to swallow at first, but now 2 weeks in I feel so much productive with "only" space for a single window at a time. Managed to grab this mint 1280x1050 IPS Dell for just $15 a bit ago and it has been excellent. It even has DisplayPort lol.
>>107230021No, but now I want to. Thanks!
>>107230021yeah I'm using my old cell phone as my main monitor.I'm being so productive, its crazy.wow.
I never bought into the widescreen thin flat junk smart television or monitor hype. Always seemed fake and crappy, same with losers who spend thousands of dollars for incremental graphics upgrades and whine online about fps or jaggies or whatever. When I visited other peoples' houses, the audio quality on their new TVs just sucked. Meanwhile I still have my second hand CRT television with booming audio, and the 4:3 office monitor I got for free from an office that upgraded while ago. Some day I want to get a CRT monitor but those are harder to come by than TVs.
>>107230021>1280x1050Resolution is just too low.
>>107230021Wish I could take the 5:4 pill but I need 16:9 for gaming and media :(I do however use Sizer and have hotkeys set up to make applications like my browser 5:4 which is comfy and easier on the eyes
I want a giant 5:4 monitor with 4k and at least 120hz but it doesn't exist
>>107230351You don't need to open windows at full screen if you don't want to
>>107230021It's not about being small, it's because 4:3 and 5:4 were the best ratio for a computer, especially if you are a coder or writer. They are also the best for webbrowsing, and reading books of course.You were lucky to find this one, it looks awesome.>>107230357Same. :( There were a couple 4K 27inch 3:2 monitors but they can't be found anywhere anymore. Of course 3:2 is wider but it's still so much better than 16:9 and 16:10.
suddenly the idea of mac os looks far more appealing like that
>>107230021>small monitor pillyou've discovered the experience of using a laptop and given it some gay name.
>>10723002121:9 but it's not that big so it's like a normal monitor squashed down.
Is the Dell 1917S good? It is LED, 5:4, 1280x1024, 60hz. Kind of expensive I think.
>>107230021What is up with /g/ constantly trying to glaslight people into using inferior, trogdolyte technology?
>>107230351>but I need 16:9 for gaming and mediaNo you don't. Games play just fine in 4:3, and movies can be stretched, cropped, or watched with black bars.
>>107231405>Dell 1917SBasically the same as OP's monitor but a bit newer
>>107230021You are from Spain. I can tell from the dedicated ñ key.
>>107230021tf no, why would i use that crap lel
>>107230021I also like having a weather widget so i can feel like ive spent time outside everyday
>>107231551the weather widget clearly shows OPs location, he's from Chile
>>107231955he's too fucktarded to think like that
I want a 3840x3840 greyscale 480fps monitor.
this is super retarded
anything lower than 2k looks like crap on modern macos
>>107230021woah my literally 95 year old grandpa has that exact clock. not even joking. they're macos at the old folk home nowadays? thats kinda disapointing. better copilot winspy I guess.
>>107230021had dual SXGA monitors for a lengthy time, it's extremely usable
>>107230021>1280x1050No, I’m not interested in small monitors, and even if I was I would think you are an idiot because of the shit crap resolution that will make fonts look like you were on Linux>>107231405No, that’s not good. Not good because of the resolution>>107231441>games play fine in 4:3No they dont. If they are designed for 16:9 they wont play good in 4:3. A part for the games for which this doesn’t matter at all
Why do people want to complicate their life so much? Old isn't better. It's just old. You had more hair and less fat but monitors were way worse. If you like using narrow windows one at a time just use narrow windows one at a time. There is no need to raid the dumpsters.
After buying a 43" monitor I cannot imagine how anyone lives with less. 24" feels like a relic of the 90s.
>>107230021LMAO
>>107233701That's my rig. To be fair, I understand what OP is talking about. But instead of ancient technology I just never open windows at full screen, except for games and movies.
>>107230021Yeah I still use triple 24".27" is too big for me.
>>107233701>>107234137Based.
>>107230488>wereCorrectBefore I had an AI pane on the right I could get three columns of code on my 27" 1440p points (5K) monitor Now I can only fit twoSo now I want a 6K monstrosity
>>107234167Old pic though, doesn't have the portrait screen.
>>107230021No.>but now 2 weeks in I feel so much productive with "only" space for a single window at a timeI think you're just one of those mystical thinking weirdos with an idiotic obsession about """productivity""" if this is your actual opinion>no the monitor is too big I can't do my job now!!!!!!get the fuck outta here, you probably care more about your "setup" and whatever latest "pill" you took than doing your job
>>107234137What screen is that, anyway?
>>107234512I just exported screenshot wrong. It just a 4k oled tv.
>>107236164Ah, makes sense.
>>107232993>If they are designed for 16:9 they wont play good in 4:3I guess maybe if you play on console. PC all display just fine in 4:3.
>>107230021yeah i've been into old 4:3 monitors lately. biggest problem is inevitably they'll all die and be irreplaceable because they're sort of anti-onions by definition, no one is going to produce new ones. more and more resolution never made me happy, never made the computer more fun to use. just gave me more cluttered up unused space. sometimes I would tile emacs into fourths and forget about 3 of the windows, working in a quarter of the screen for an hour without realizing it. just decided it was retarded, and saw a good 4:3 monitor at goodwill for $7.66 and never looked back
>>107230021What model OP?
it's not the size, it's the aspect ratio
>>107230021that looks pretty good.
a 19" 5:4 monitor is hardly small, you retard.It's just the AR doing heavy lifting for you.I use the same monitor when I play FF XI and write letters, it's AOV tricking you and sating your ADHD.Never by 16:9 & 16:10 slave ratios. Never buy ultrawide, you're never going to own a hasselblad xpan.
>>107231405Honestly, no. If you're purposefully buying a 4:3/5:4 monitor, go the distance and buy a hospital refurb. Ghosting's a bitch.
I'm ova here being productive af
TV as monitor users should be beate-- Hmm, I'm not so sure anymore. I really used to hate the idea, but now I'm pondering..
I'm almost entirely blind in my left eye so I have no choice but to use a 4:3 monitor, it's either that or get a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor and run it in a 4:3 pillarboxed resolution like 1440x1080 or 1600x1200also 5:4 is shit
>>107230351>gaming and media :(4:3 would be perfect for me... all the good Gaycube and Gaystation Gaymes in 4:3. Also 90s and 00's animay...
>>107241265Which server?
>>107230021I use a 4:3 CRT monitor from 1998 as my main monitor, I only switch to my 16:9 whenever I play a modern game. It's nice. Perfect for older games and emulation, even though I sadly can't quite figure out how to force 240p on it for emulated console games, so they look a bit too sharp in some cases.
>>107241936kek
>>107230021>isnt being poor coolno.
>>107243438Baja
>>107230021oh I also have that kb but black
>>107230021i know that someone of my family have that model of a clock, and now i cannot stop thinking who
What if I want to have two windows open at the same time?
>>107243920>even though I sadly can't quite figure out how to force 240p on it for emulated console gamesuse CRU to create a 240p 120hz resolution, and use retroarch's BFI to blank every other frame to get 60hz motion clarity. It's still gonna look too sharp because you're basically going to end up with a display similar to a high end PVM, but you can get some scanlines going at least.
>>107247092i hope the filters that makes bfi but with only a third of the screen to pretend is a roling screen get implemented soon
>>107247092>>107247323i didnt link it bc the web is down so i cannot find itiirc was the guys from https://www.testufo.com/, or at least they were the ones promoting it
>>107233701Do you live in Russia or Deutschland?- the ceiling decor is more typical to renovated soviet style appartment block- the medicine has cyrillic branding- smart speaker is Alisa- the blackout curtains are more common in Russiabut the design of a box on the top shelf is western. You might be immigrant living in Berlin, purchasing cheaper medicine back home and running VPN on wlan to access russian media services.
>>107247092found it https://github.com/blurbusters/crt-beam-simulator
>>107243920>>107247092Just get a 15kHz monitor. 240p with 120Hz + BFI and 480p with every second line blanked isn't going to look good. >>107247404That's to emulate scanning beam on OLEDs.
>>107247681it also diminishes the perceived flicker of the screen, as some part of the screen is always on, so you get a constantish amount of light to your eyes
>>107243920you can't do 240p on a PC monitor. 240p at 50 or 60Hz is simply too slow for a PC monitor, even the oldest ones.240p is for televisions
>>107230282>paying to beam x-rays directly into your retinas
I do all my work on a 20" 4:3 Formac Gallery from the early 00s. It just feels good.
>>107249107retard
>>107247393>but the design of a box on the top shelf is westernWhat do you mean? It's just you know a box. Boxes are the same everywhere. I'm from Moscow. My flat have very old-fashioned wallpapers and I was too lazy to strip in down and paint it white. Curtains are leftovers from the time when I was running a projector.
>>107247092Tried this but I couldn't get anything to work, I think my display just really hates 120hz>>107249056You can force it, it's a common thing, just one I can't seem to get working.
>>107251391>You can force it, it's a common thing, just one I can't seem to get working.the typical workarounds are "double-strike" 240p, commonly used by things like DOS games, where each line is drawn twice (so basically 480p with line-doubling), or doubling the refresh rate (100/120Hz). or; use a multi-sync capable monitor.key difference here is that standard tv's operate around 15kHz, while pc monitors /start/ at 31kHz, twice the rate. a standard, 31kHz pc monitor cannot sync to a 15kHz (like 240p60) signal, you have to double it somehow, either with twice the lines or twice the draw rate
>>107230021Yeah it's called 24". As long as your user interface fits in it going bigger just slows you down, in both productive tasks and gaming.
>>107251391>>107251499since i'm posting details, may as well add that 240p, on tv's is itself already a hack. like standard tv's (480i/576i) don't technically "support 240p" either, they were always meant for 480i/576i. 240p works by means of a signal timing hack where rather than drawing each 480i field offset from one-another, they're drawn over top of one another, yielding an effective 240 line frame rather than a 240 line field. like 480i draws 240 lines each vertical refresh cycle either way, just each field is offset from the previous which doubles its' apparent resolution. since old consoles didn't have the power or memory to handle a 480i image, they did this trick instead to halve the resolution
>>107230021If you don't have at least 3 monitors, you probably don't have a real job.
I used to have 3 monitors but after many years I realised that I only really use one,I just put distractions on the side ones like YouTube or what not. I then gave away my two other monitors and moved to hyprland and started utilising workspaces instead and now it’s way more comfy to use the desktop
>>107249107>paying to beam blue light directly into your retinas
>>107243920Just take the 480p pill bro.
>>107230021That looks so comfy. I’m all for the 4:3 come back. Ultrawide is almost essentially two 4:3 side by side.
>>107230021>ñuñoa fuck off
>>107253119I voted for Kast
>>107253128>I voted for Kastbased
>>107230021are you that faggot that made the keyboard thread asking which would i rather use? cram the keyboards up your asshole you queer tranny lover.
>>107253153Kast is cringe you retard
>>107253128>Kastenjoy having boric back after 4 years
>>107253722Not going to happen
>>107253815says who?
>>107233071where can I find a 23" 16:10 screen in [current year]?
>>10725430223? Nowhere. But you can find a 24" quite easily. There are some asuses, samsungs and dells.
if i had to go back to 4:3 it would have to be a crt since i cannot imagine using a <100 hz monitor today. unless there are monitors like OPs that can pump ~100hz in which case i am all ears; i would like to have something like thread pic
>>107230357I have a 120hz 38" 4k monitor from Asus. It's actually so good for coding. It really sucks that all the new stuff is this shitty OLED technology that burns in after a few years, so I ended up needing to find an older model that used IPS.
>>107254302there are 22 and 24-inch 1920x1200 monitors out there
Fuck This thread made me want to get a second hand square monitor
I do quite like my ancient Compaq 4:3 monitor12380x1024 at 75 hz
>>107233071I se nothing wrong with the one on the left.
>>107230357I'm using a 55" 4k 60Hz LCD (VA) TV as a monitor (low latency full bandwidth RGB no processing "game mode") and it's amazing for programming.I can easily have 6-8 files spread out and it doesn't feel cramped, which is good when making changes that affect many files at once.It's sort of like having a big desk that you can spread a bunch of papers out on.
>>107252110I find 480 looks good for PC games, the classic Fallouts and some older visual novels, but 240 tends to look better for console games, especially the PS1
>>107230021I just ordered an OLED 2880x1800 16:10 monitor and am looking forward to it. 16:9 is nice for media but not to actually do work in. 5:4 would be nice to try,
