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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?
Submitted 14 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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gergolippai@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Overspark@piefed.social 12 hours ago
multifariace@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors
Overspark@piefed.social 11 hours ago
It really doesn’t, and I day that as someone who often had 3 or 4 monitors on his desk 😂
TransNeko@lemmy.world 6 hours 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 3 hours ago
CEO needs 2 phones
Is the second one for the coke dealer?
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Needs a log scale x-axis
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Okay I use a 50” TV as a monitor. What am I?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Unemployed?
Overspark@piefed.social 3 hours ago
CubitOom@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
Shake till it gets big
Beep@lemmus.org 14 hours ago
😐 What gets big exactly?
OpenStars@piefed.social 7 hours ago
“yes”
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pp
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 12 hours 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.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Just use Xeyes app
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Or a 200% yellow cursor, like I do
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Too real
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 27 screens ?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What aren’t they doing?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Haquer@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
“Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” We need more of these
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 13 hours 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.
philpo@feddit.org 3 hours 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.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours 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 12 hours ago
It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.
Kraiden@piefed.social 12 hours 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 11 hours 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 9 hours ago
There is crossplatform software for mouse/keyboard sharing.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
It’s a cropped version of a BBC office someone could see from their apartment
Skunk@jlai.lu 6 hours 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.
VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Gooning
rumba@lemmy.zip 12 hours 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.
lbfgs@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Traders love doing this
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
IIRC when keemstar posted it, it’s a BBC office
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Russian space program
mech@feddit.org 5 hours ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics look like
Etterra@discuss.online 3 hours ago
Ask those fucking monitors and they couldn’t spare a few hundred each on better chairs?
PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 minutes ago
Knowing how crazy office furniture is, those could very well be thousand dollar chairs.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
8K ultrawide monitor in a nutshell(if we assume that each individual monitor has 1080p resolution).
raman_klogius@ani.social 12 hours ago
The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
Ray Bradbury warned us of this
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Picard: Computah, where is the bloody cursor??
1984@lemmy.today 3 hours 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.”
username_1@programming.dev 14 hours 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 14 hours ago
We don’t talk about Xorg in 2026.
username_1@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Pfah, I dare even dislike the syntax of Rust.
notabot@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Xorg 4 lyfe!
blueday@lemmy.world 13 hours 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 8 hours 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
chunes@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Meanwhile, I’ve owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The misalignments on those monitors hurts me in a way that is almost physical…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 hours ago
Imagine how it looks from the person sitting in front of them. It’s perfect.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 hours 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.
nixukty@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Thanks, capitalism
comador@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 14 hours ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 13 hours 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 9 hours ago
This looks oddly similar to factorio
zephiriz@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
This looks like Factorio. Someone needs to make a mod to import these graphics and do the reverse.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
Harvey656@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The dream
funkajunk@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Y’all never heard of workspaces? 🤨
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours 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
mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
spamming ctrl
einlander@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Monitor spec’d sunscreen
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Neck? No more.
SHBI7368@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
this is not even my final form!!!
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I couldn’t. Even developing I have reduced myself to one monitor. It’s improved my focus a lot.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
This looks like a Goodwork skit. 😄
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
3 horizontal screens is the magic cursor finding balance. If 4th, must be touch screen you avoid mouse movement to.
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Would you like some human with your monitors?
Sisyphe@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.