Image I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat…
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?
Submitted 1 month ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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Overspark@piefed.social 1 month ago
multifariace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors
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 😂
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Needs a log scale x-axis
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.
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.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
CEO needs 2 phones
Is the second one for the coke dealer?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay I use a 50” TV as a monitor. What am I?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Unemployed?
Overspark@piefed.social 1 month ago
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too real
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 27 screens ?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What aren’t they doing?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haquer@lemmy.today 1 month ago
“Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” We need more of these
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.
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.
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
KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.
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.
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
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.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There is crossplatform software for mouse/keyboard sharing.
VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gooning
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.
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.
lbfgs@programming.dev 1 month ago
Traders love doing this
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a cropped version of a BBC office someone could see from their apartment
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.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Russian space program
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
IIRC when keemstar posted it, it’s a BBC office
raman_klogius@ani.social 1 month ago
The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When you have that many monitors they’re literally just monitoring. 15 FPS is fine for that.
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)
Beep@lemmus.org 1 month ago
We don’t talk about Xorg in 2026.
username_1@programming.dev 1 month ago
Pfah, I dare even dislike the syntax of Rust.
notabot@piefed.social 1 month ago
Xorg 4 lyfe!
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.
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
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Ray Bradbury warned us of this
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Picard: Computah, where is the bloody cursor??
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The misalignments on those monitors hurts me in a way that is almost physical…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Imagine how it looks from the person sitting in front of them. It’s perfect.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Or it was until it got bumped. And then trying to adjust it back bumps another one. And so on. Then you think you have it right, sit down, and realize shit’s not level anymore.
And then a year later one of the panels dies, and you get handed a replacement with the same screen size but a different bezel size.
The path to zero fucks given is slow but steady.
gergolippai@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mech@feddit.org 1 month ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics look like
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meanwhile, I’ve owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.
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.
db2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meanwhile, I’m fascinated by the type of dweebus that would waste construction time and budget, not to mention taking up precious squares in their base, sandbagging the edges of a cliff.
(I’m assuming this is a prefab computer opponent base in some damn fool mission or another, but I’ll be damned if I can remember which one after 30 years.)
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 month ago
This looks oddly similar to factorio
zephiriz@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This looks like Factorio. Someone needs to make a mod to import these graphics and do the reverse.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Sisyphe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mac does this as well
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Y’all never heard of workspaces? 🤨
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Ask those fucking monitors and they couldn’t spare a few hundred each on better chairs?
Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The dream
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
dukatos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Just use Xeyes app
Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
8K ultrawide monitor in a nutshell(if we assume that each individual monitor has 1080p resolution).
einlander@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Monitor spec’d sunscreen
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
And then a windows update in the middle, with “hey, take it easy bro, we are just taking care of a few things, alright? Your friends at Microslop.”
nixukty@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Thanks, capitalism
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 month ago
spamming ctrl
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Neck? No more.
SHBI7368@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
this is not even my final form!!!
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I couldn’t. Even developing I have reduced myself to one monitor. It’s improved my focus a lot.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
This looks like a Goodwork skit. 😄
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
3 horizontal screens is the magic cursor finding balance. If 4th, must be touch screen you avoid mouse movement to.
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.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Shake till it gets big
Beep@lemmus.org 1 month ago
😐 What gets big exactly?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 month ago
“yes”
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pp
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?
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
xdotool mousemove 0 0Replace the
0 0with 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.