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This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.
Mac does this as well
And there isn’t an upper limit! Keep shaking!
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Just use Xeyes app
Load up a couple of instances so you can triangulate its position
Or a 200% yellow cursor, like I do
Ask those fucking monitors and they couldn’t spare a few hundred each on better chairs?
Knowing how crazy office furniture is, those could very well be thousand dollar chairs.
8K ultrawide monitor in a nutshell(if we assume that each individual monitor has 1080p resolution).
You may not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics look like
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.”
I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat…Okay I use a 50” TV as a monitor. What am I?
Unemployed?
The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.
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.
CEO needs 2 phones
Is the second one for the coke dealer?
coke, prostitutes, bribery, etc.,
I should get a second phone
c-suite material
Needs a log scale x-axis
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.
Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors
It really doesn’t, and I say that as someone who often had 3 or 4 monitors on his desk 😂
Five or more monitors is typically for traders watching charts and news simultaneously. Those rake in a bit more than grunts.
The salary you make doesn’t say much about your position in the company. Traders are still wage slaves IMHO, they’re just paid more than others, and only if they’re successful.
in the mean time some of the executives replaced themselves with an assistant using AI responses and they haven’t done any work in over a year and somehow we are saying they were important.
Too real
Ray Bradbury warned us of this
Picard: Computah, where is the bloody cursor??
Thanks, capitalism
Shake till it gets big
😐 What gets big exactly?
“yes”
It’s a feature in KDE that if you shake or move the mouse fast the cursor gets bigger so you can find it.
Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA
KDE Plasma is so fucking good these days it’s amazing to me that people voluntarily use Windows
It is also a sexual innuendo.
I wanna put that in your end-o, if you know what I meANALSEX
meANALSEX
As subtle ass a pounding
That pun went right over my head.
And then moved back and forth rapidly, until I had an orgasm and ejaculated my semen into it.
My favorite part is that it keeps getting bigger as you continue shaking it, eventually resulting in a big-ass cursor that can’t be contained in one display lol
…What? I was bored…
macOS also has this feature under the name “Shake mouse pointer to locate”.
KDE’s is different (and better) in that it seemingly has no cap on the size you can make the cursor. You can get your cursor bigger than your display.
Yeah I think it been a Mac feature since like 2018, but more newly adopted in KDE. But either way it’s just a help UX idea, and potential aligns with someone’s behavior of just like moving the mouse fast to verify it’s still working
Apple added it in 2015.
It was on Linux longer. The focus follows the mouse was another that I would like to see native
I’m vaguely sure this was already in MacOS when I got my Macbook in early 2010s.
It was on Linux longer.
I’m fairly sure that didn’t become a thing in KDE until 2024 or 25
Windows, since 7 (2009ish), had a feature to hit CTRL which zeros in on the mouse to find it if you can’t find it. On my 3x 19" LCDs I had, it was handy to have that 3" circle close in on it.
Enable it under mouse settings, not automatic.
HOLY SHIT THAT’S WHY IT DOES THAT?!?!?! I learn something new about Linux on this platform every day.
It’s so well implemented, I sent it to a bunch of my friends saying something like “good accessibility and good design often are the same thing”
Accessibility causes developers to implement users a choice on design.
The original intent of css was we’d influence pages with out own design but that never happened.
Night mode is accessibility lifted to a feature.
Same in macOS
Still doesn’t help in finding where your cursor is currently.
Even worse when running multiple VMs.
Half a dozen blinking cursors, but only one of them is actually active…
Pp
There is a function on linux that makes the cursor expand in size when you wiggle furiously for a few seconds
“Wiggle furiosly” sounds like a great way to spend saturday night.
Sure. It was called Wii Sports back in 2006.
I’ve put a hole in 3 monitors that way. At once.
Is there a way to define a home location for the cursor and have a key combination to send it there?
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.
Meanwhile, I’ve owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.
Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 15 screens ?
It’s a cropped version of a BBC office someone could see from their apartment
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 support positions so not ATC radars. 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.
Reminds me of the workstation from
“Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie”Swordfish.
“Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” We need more of these
“Halle Berry in a Bikini: The Younglings Awakening - A Kids Movie”The FlintstonesI think they’re great the way they are but maybe somebody will remake Total Recall again with her as Mary.
🤢
What aren’t they doing?
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
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.
Reminds me of VirtualBox on Wayland. It won’t correctly capture the mouse, so it just exits and re-enters the window in random positions. Say, on guest you see it in middle left, you move it a bit to the right, and it jumps out of bottom right corner.
So, time to have a second mouse, and do USB passthrough.
But also UEFI on my HP mini PC doesn’t work with every keyboard, so a second keyboard for UEFI.
There is crossplatform software for mouse/keyboard sharing.
Kiwi gang!
There’s
dozensat least three of us!I want to join, but they don’t let me
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.
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.
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
My parents were 911 dispatchers for decades. It’s how they met. They had 7 monitors last time I visited them at work 20 years ago. Their applications seemed to be built on the idea they had multiple monitors worth of space that they’d be stretched across.
If I remember accurately, there were 2 computers (and thus 2 mice and 2 keyboards). The first computer had 5 monitors and was the Google Maps equivalent for where all the active ambulances in the city were. The main application stretched across multiple monitors and had sub-windows with different operations in them. I think it also managed the radio between dispatcher and ambulance. The second computer was dedicated to the phone, the caller, any history attached to the phone number, and all the data 911 gets about your location. It took up the remaining few monitors. By now it’s probably 1 computer and even more monitors.
Separate computers may be due to necessity. For example, one of the systems they need may have a provided computer to handle it that is managed and supported by that vendor on a separated network for security.
It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.
IIRC when keemstar posted it, it’s a BBC office
Gooning
It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.
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.
Traders love doing this
Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.
Russian space program
The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”
When you have that many monitors they’re literally just monitoring. 15 FPS is fine for that.
Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup
