Partying. The whole idea of dressing up to leave one’s home after dark to visit a dimly lit, overly crowded place with overpriced drinks and snacks and music so loud you can’t hear yourself think.
Seems entirely unnecessary. I feel like social connection is so much easier when you can see and hear each other. Being able to get enough sleep and not needing to pay through the nose for 5 peanuts is also nice.
We had this cool medieval style basement tavern where we hammered nails in a stump with an axe, threw axes, played darts, drank beer out of horns and got wasted
Sounds awesome!
By extension. Going out for drinks. Spending 5x for alcohol served to be briskly by someone overworked and tip them…
Maybe I’m just cheap but I’d rather just drink at a friends house or my own home.
This way I’m safer and can pass out if I need to.
I just don’t drink alcohol in the first place (and also don’t get the hype, lol), but I can see how it makes more sense at a friends house.
I feel like this is only one specific type or partying where you go to a business. There are many forms of DIY partying which involve spending less money and allow you to see and speak to people that you are parting with.
Yeah, that I understand more. At least for people who are more extroverted than I am, lol. But being in a setting in which you can see and hear people while not needing to pay insane prices sounds way more reasonable.
Alcohol. Or drugs for that matter. But alcohol is the one that actually pisses me off when depicted in media. It’s always some character downing a glass of something and then having this super happy face and enjoying themselves. Like, fuck off? Anyone I know who drinks doesn’t even enjoy the flavor of it, and it being romanticized into this fancy, social drink is genuinely infuriating.
As for drugs, I just don’t understand the reason why someone would want to alter their mental capabilities.
As far as drugs go, I’ve tried basically everything but opiates (well I’ve smoked opium, but nothing else. I avoid those) and the way some drugs can change your visual, auditory, and even temporal perceptions is the most amazing and interesting experience in life. It’s truly incredible. I don’t do much anymore, but I’m so happy I have tried what I did. Beyond perception, certain drugs have made me feel pleasure beyond anything I could possibly imagine. Some people told me stuff like that could ruin other pleasures in life, but I have not at all had that happen. Perhaps heroin or fent could do that.
I understand why people do it (logically). But altering what I hear, see, taste, etc. is something that doesn’t call to me at all, so I don’t understand why people want to do it.
I guess it’s more of a “I can’t relate”?
That’s totally fair! I was straightedge for my early life and also didn’t understand. Something changed for me when I was in my 20s. I decided to try cannabis and realized everything I was told about drugs was wrong. I can’t smoke cannabis anymore, it gives me crazy anxiety. But I do take MDMA every four months or so with my partner, because it’s the best feeling I’ve ever experienced!
The coolest drug I’ve taken was 5-MeO-DiPT, or “Foxy”. It altered everything about the world. It was the only thing I’ve ever tried that changed time. My partner at the time and I were listening to music familiar to us, and both noticed notes stretching out way longer than they usually do. The body feelings were also insane. I would never do it again hahaha
Don’t enjoy alcohol like that.
It can have a particular taste I might enjoy every while but I know the risls and try to keep it a low number. And I feel like I can be at risk for addictions. So I was never drunk and never plan to.There has only been one alcoholic drink that I’ve enjoyed and it was because it tasted more like juice than alcohol. Also I was 17 at the time (accompanied by trusted adults) so that might’ve influenced it.
I get why people drink, and it’s not like I’ll care about any random person downing drinks left and right. What makes me mad is the overly-romanticized way it’s depicted in media 99% of the time, and how normalized it is.
To each their own, but fuck any depiction in media that romanticizes them.
Absolutely.
Sadly some amazing tasting drinks contain alcohol. :/
And I’d prefer if they just tasted like that without the actual alcohol.Edit: Phrasing ;)
Genuine question: have you ever tried alcohol or weed?
Not saying you have to but it would make the point that at least you know what you’re rejecting and why
Trauma Trauma can easily make it where you can’t stand your own thoughts or how you feel. So anything that augments that can be very attractive.
I’d day mental health too, even if you don’t have known traumas. Major depression, etc. But I know women who can’t relax or aren’t very intimate unless they drink. But as someone with an alcoholic father, alcohol has some big dark sides. Even if you are happy when you drink, it can really mess your brain up.
Mr. Beast.
Unsubbed from a person that featured him recently.
Can’t support his behaviour and anyone that supports his presence in any capacity.turns out hes a POS like witht he people associated with.
His annoying face is everywhere. Fucking Influencer products everywhere
Those soulless, empty eyes…
Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.
Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.
There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.
I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.
i think there’s some sports that are a bit acquired tastes, like I don’t think the skill is immediately apparent the first time watching soccer, it’s “just people running around”. The strategy, technique etc is not immediately apparent. As opposed to like skateboard tricks or dry tooling/ice climbing competitions, which also have depth but are impressive without any prior knowledge, imo.
For me personally, it’s the fan aspect I don’t get. What’s the point of projecting the us vs. them mentality on some team, “we won”, and foflowing a team almost religiously, even building ones own identity around it, at least in part. In general, getting so emotionally invested in it, i don’t understand. And it seems to mostly be a team sport thing.
Hopefully I can illuminate
Team sport fandom traditionally trends with locality. You grow up with going to the local football stadium on the weekend as one of the options for how you spend your time. Your mates have the same choices, so even if you never pick it, you’re gonna hear about it at the very least
If you spend your time with a team, you get to know the players (which is kinda parasocial in most instances, ngl) and in many cases watch them grow over the years into incredible athletes.
Naturally, people end up proud of the people they support, doing well. It’s part of the human condition
That makes sense, though at least where I’m from it’s usually not local. At least people seem to care most about soccer and ice hockey teams that are not from where they grew up or where they live. Maybe more handed down by parents?
It’s mostly that shared parasocial relationships are weird to me. Like, the benefit of a parasocial relationship is that it helps with loneliness and fill social needs without any pressure. But a shared parasocial relationship, idk. You get pressure/obligations from your peers and you actually have a friend group for fulfilling social needs. at least i never felt an urge to combine my parasocial and social relationships.
I mean, if it was just some activity you did to spend time with friends, sure, i get it. But it seems like the sport itself is more central than a group of friends, to the point of getting ostracized for liking another team. Or getting into fights over which team is better, that kind of stuff. I know that’s not how everyone interacts with team sports, but there is a sizable chunk of people that do take it pretty seriously, and that’s where I don’t follow why they do that and what they get out of it.
There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don’t even ask whether you watch, it’s assumed you do, so they’ll ask stuff like “that match yesterday was awesome, right?” or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can’t comprehend someone doesn’t watch hockey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik&t=130s&pp=2AGCAZACAQ%3D%3D
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Conan O’Brien taught me how to deal with this situation decades ago.
Just say, “yeah, it was a real nailbiter!” that should buy you enough time to run away.
I can watch sports I don’t play. Like football(both American type and what we call soccer), MMA(although I haven’t watched anything in years), basketball(but only NCAA), hockey, the occasional baseball game. I’ll make an exception for boxing and tennis, those are watchable even when I was deep into them. But golf‽ How does anyone watch that? I get walking the greens, and hitting it every few minutes yourself, but watching someone else just seems so boring.
Especially beyond the local level
Why do we have to have massive stadiums everywhere ?
Pay for your hobby yourself.
I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.
It’s fun seeing someone do something with Incredible skill /or great athleticism. Doesn’t need to be sport per se performance art like acrobatics or artistry e.g. Bob Ross have similar aspects.
Some sports I like to watch I have personally partaken in, in that way I can more appreciate the skill needed by the professionals.
Some sports I don’t know at all but I like to figure out the rules by watching and discovering what makes a great play (American Football is in that category for me).
Most superheroes.
EDIT: SJW admins confirms that I have indeed been downvoted by Superman and Spiderman
Same LMAO they’re neat but I’ve always been so meh about them. And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again
It’s been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let’s spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn’t know what Batman’s deal is.
I actually don’t know, only read it from reddit/lemmy that his rich parents died or something and now he wants revenge against the criminals that killed them?
Pretty much
also why he has a no kill rule, he doesnt want anyone to end up like he did
I love how the new Superman movie covered that in the first 20 seconds and then jumped in the action.
Holy shit I loved that movie.
And there’s not even like new ones, it’s always the same versions over and over again
That’s the worst part for me, there are thousands upon thousands of superheroes to make movies about, but it’s always about the same ones. And you know what the sad part is? That every once in a while we get a different superhero with a cool movie/TV show and it either ends up becoming overused like Batman/Superman (e.g. Spider-Man, or Iron man) or it’s completely dropped and forgotten (e.g. Jessica Jones, or Spawn)
Superheroes are gay.
Personally superhero movies aremy crowning achievement as far as willing suspension of disbelief goes.
It’s fine that superheroes have powers and/or levels of combat expertise that would be impossible to achieve at their age WITHOUT superpowers. That’s just how it is.
That they solve all major problems by punching people and acting as less murderous COPS, though? THAT’S what I have to force myself to overlook in order to enjoy the escapist silliness I’m watching 😄
i think because mcu and decu have played it too death with subpar garbage most of the time.
Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
You can do that. But certain voices carry extra weight within communities.
I followed today’s Formula 1 race on both Threads and Mastodon. Both platforms allow you to follow topics and that’s what I did. But then I follow the people I find interesting as well
I was really rooting for Yuki the most and he lost so many places 😭
granted they did switch something up on him without preparing him for it but stillotherwise man I hope the FIA learns something from this race, it was bloody horrible. I would’ve had a more entertaining time going to church with my father and listening to someone preach for an hour and a half 🙃
You can tell it’s a shit race when the coverage is mostly showing people in 14th-18th position. Normally I like Spa, and I like wet GPs because they’re unpredictable. But this was a procession. Not as bad as Monaco, but nearly.
Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.
Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”
It still is considered that, for reasons.
Because Apple is a marketing company
They’re a dongle company.
- Sell many dongle
- Remove port the dongle plugs into
- Invent NEW dongle
Repeat
How come they manufacture their own chips then?
C’mon bro, be serious. They don’t manufacture shit. They pay other people to manufacture and assemble their products.
It’s expensive and recognized. That’s about it. The UI is neat, I guess.
This is what I don’t get, the UI looks so dated and messy to me. Everything looks like it came out of the 90s and never evolved.
I had an iPhone once, but realized I couldn’t get a torrent client and decided I’ll never use Apple again.
Also if you go to like China, you wouldn’t be able to download a VPN app, whereas with Android, at least you can tell a friend who lives in the west to email you a .apk file.
Misinformed, this.
I only got an Iphone because using Android was severely limited in China and iPhones just work[TM]. VPN use is everywhere and normal there.
Most social media stuff.
Omg did you hear X did Y?
I guess I’m just old but I don’t follow most. Even with dogpiling PirateSoftware. Yes, he’s wrong and probably lied. I just don’t get the hype around it. I’m happy that the hype led to Stop Killing Games getting enough traction though, that was nice.
I’ve never heard that name in my life, and I’m petty sure I don’t care one way or another. My daughter gets wrapped up in internet drama and I can’t for the life of me understand why. I am not drawn to drama but were I, there is plenty to be found in my own life. It’s all so performative and pointless — the good and the bad.
I’ve been watching countless PirateSoftware drama videos since it’s the clown that keeps on giving. I never bothered with drama channels on YouTube, so I never realized how much of an industry these people made out of it now that I keep getting recommend them. It’s sickening.
Labubu.
And anything else in that category of blind bag collectables. Can’t do anything with it other than decorating a shelf, spend more money than it’s worth to get a whole collection and end up with too many multiples you can’t get rid of, and fake rarity.
Yogi?
The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
We’re doing some renovation at the moment. We have a lead contractor who’s managing all the trades 'cos I know nothing about construction.
Every trade we’ve had - electricians, bricklayers, drainage guy, plumber, carpenter, etc - come as a duo. There’s a guy in his late 30s or older who does the thinking, and a kid in the late teens / early 20s who are effectively labourers and lift, push, carry, drill, dig, etc. The life of the senior guy in the pair seems to be pretty good and you know they’re well paid. The kids are learning, and in 10 years time will have their own labourer.
Listen to the seniors… They will all say the same thing.
The last guy did it all wrong.
Hey, how did you know that’s what they said?
Lol
I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don’t care how much you pay me I’m not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.
Most of my time in construction was during high school and early college and even then I recognized how many immature assholes I worked with!
I grew up and have put my fair share of time in the trades. They do pay well but if you don’t get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.
The one thing I can’t wrap my head around is why everyone wants to work so much overtime. Even unions are rocking 50-60 hour work weeks and then claiming they treat you well. It’s looked down upon if you only want to work 40.
They do pay well but if you don’t get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.
That is the key, “getting off the tools” aka getting a white collar/office job….
I moved up to project manager and started working 55 to 60 hour weeks as the norm and of course it’s salary.
and its also mostly to a specific demographic too, and not the one people want to associate with,hint hint.
I’m a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.
I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just… doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won’t regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.
Of course my back and joints couldn’t keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn’t have wanted to get swept up in that.
That sounds nice because you’ve never done it. The horrors you encounter in people’s homes and the creativity you have to come up with when doing the wiring are real.
So the most fun I ever had at a job was the after I graduated college and worked as chef, the work was so much fun, the waitresses were hot as hell, I was young in great shape and we all got off work at 1030 went out and partied. I had sex with really sexy women. All I did for about a year and a half was work out, work and hang out.
It really was an amazing year, but there was no future in it. I often think back nostalgically to that time.
I hear you man, one of the greatest aspects was I left work at work…
most of the guys in that line of work are assholes
Can confirm
I think it’s just some people have realised it pays well.
it destroys the body, and i only ever seen white people work in trades, so i suspect as to something to do with how they are only hiring those people too.
Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.
Also I don’t get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you’re competing with everyone else for their attention.
I don’t get the uncanny valley from them, but I guess that can vary from person to person, so that’s fair.
The thing about chats being filled with too many people for any one person to matter I agree with. But that’s a big streamer thing, not exclusively a vtuber thing.
I enjoy watching and chatting in smaller streams sometimes (like, a couple hundred in the chat at the MOST, usually < 100), it’s still parasocial, but tends to be WAY more chill. If it’s a stream with thousands of people, I don’t see the point in chatting, it’s passive entertainment at that point for me, personally!
It’s 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There’s a creator a like who doesn’t like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn’t help that I’m seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.
Supposedly vtubers need to make very exaggerated facial expressions irl in order to make sure the software picks it up and translates it onto the model, which is sometimes unsettling to people when they get in the habit of doing that normally.
“Reality TV”. Could anythjng be more contrived yet obviously “make it up as you go along”?
I can’t help but wonder how much the popularity of reality TV led us to where we are now. I don’t just mean how the US president used to have his own stupid show, but how many people grew up thinking that “watching people create drama” is peak entertainment.
The same era saw the decline and demise of a number of educational channels and shows. Is it a coincidence? I don’t know. All I know is there are lots of adults who grew up watching “reality” shows who now think politics are just a game to “win” and that when their opponents are upset, it’s amusing. It’s like the concept of empathy or working together don’t even enter their minds. Everything is just for entertainment, no matter how serious it is or how many innocent people get screwed over by it.
“watching people create drama”
Same reason soap operas are popular and why wrestling used to be huge (maybe wrestling still is huge, but I don’t feel like I hear about it as much).
People like drama. That it’s contrived doesn’t matter, it’s still drama.
This and 24-hour “news entertainment” are fully responsible for society’s woes, far as I can tell.
It’s cheap to make. People watch other people at their packagable worst. That’s about it.
Interdimensional cable is arguably better.
Mobile UI. It sucks. Yet the majority of people online are now connecting from it, and everything wants to be an app.
The keyboard is epic though. Totally designed in 6th circle of hell
Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn’t have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.
Working for corpos. It’s a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I’m currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
Yup. When you’re the only guy on the team, you have to do everything.
It’s impossible to be an expert at everything a project needs.
Being part of a team that knows how to perform together to achieve very challenging goals is quite an experience.
I’ve been part of multiple projects that migrated/extended/moved extensive, broad-reaching, crazy complex systems with serious financial and life/safety risks (things like fire alarm systems that trigger suppression and alert fire departments).
The satisfaction of knowing it was done in time (no loss of monitoring), no one got hurt, no penalties or fines were paid because we maintained regulatory compliance, etc, is fantastic.
It’s the teamwork. I’ve been a key performer on such projects, and could not have done it myself - it’s just not possible.
Figuring out a critical path with all sorts of unpredictable risks requires strong understanding of these systems, and the capabilities of the groups you’ll engage along the way.
[…] JS […] dream.
Your dreams are my nightmares. Maybe that’s why I stick to backend these days.
I used to want to work for Google because I thought they were hiring the best and brightest and making cool stuff. That hasn’t been true in ages, though, as they do things that I definitely would define as ‘evil’ and love to kill off their products. Even were I to work there, I’m not sure my other goal, getting to work with and learn from some brilliant engineers, would even happen anymore. (I mean, if they’d hire me (and they almost did ages ago)…)
Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
This was not a response I expected, I thought the only people who didn’t like multiple monitors were ones who never tried it lol
My peak was like 8 monitors, I’m at 6 now, but I can never go back to a single one long term. Whenever I do it temporarily for whatever reason it’s agonizing
It’s taken me awhile to figure out, but I feel like the vast majority of people dismiss new things if they aren’t:
- Very clearly presented in exactly applicable use-cases for the person, including easy to understand benefit explanations. 2. They try it themselves in a way that the benefits are immediately apparent and understandable.
There no way you’re actively using 6 monitors at the same time. How many of this are just storing windows you don’t look at for an hour at a time.
It’s a whole lot faster to turn my head to check on a process than to Alt-Tab 30 times hoping I don’t miss the window I’m looking for.
Though 6 monitors seems a bit nuts to me, but I don’t know what he’s doing.
I can use 3 when I have some long-running tasks, or need to RDP into multiple systems. It’s just easier than using a tabbed remote tool like mRemote.
I’m the same person who also has 600 (Not an exaggeration)
ChromeFirefox tabs open at a time LMAOIt’s a lot easier to just have whatever windows open on a monitor than constantly switching between windows. Sure there’s 1 or 2 that just has Spotify open or whatever, but there’s also ones with ya know documentation open or a browser or an IDE or RDP sessions there’s also a dedicated crib monitor one as well
When doing work that requires multiple apps to be open or file explorers, web pages, and reference stuff then having a second is very convenient a lot of the time. Yeah, I could stretch it out on one giant monitor if it was an option, but two just makes it easy to keep track of what is where by having physical breaks.
At home it is great for having discord or other thing off to the side for communication or reference while playing games full screen on one monitor instead of needing to alt tab or use windowed mode smaller than full screen. If I did a more immersive driving/flying set up I would have three for the wrap around effect and a fourth for the extra stuff.
Both situations are for convenience.
I do know someone at work that has three but they handle the infrastructure and they often have multiple apps and browsers open for all the things that interact when troubleshooting and having it large and readable makes it easier to see what is changing and what isn’t changing at the same time.
I have 4. Game, discord and task manager, Japanese and YouTuber, code practice. It’s an adhd man’s dream and nightmare. Without 2 minimum It sucks. 3 is the sweet spot I feel. 4 is overkill
Your environment would give a Victorian child a seizure.
So would watching a movie.
I didn’t get it either until one class in high school (graphic design) had second monitors installed for all work stations halfway through the year. It’s super useful being able to have reading material open on a vertical monitor! Only reason I don’t have one still is because of very limited space (can’t even fit a normal PC).
I did start using my TV as a second monitor recently though for putting Zoom meetings on it. I got tired of having to alt tab back to it every once in a while when doing stuff. TV sits behind my laptop so only like half the screen is visible but it’s good enough!
they’re great if you do more than one thing at a time or need many programs open at the same time. anyone who regularly ‘alt-tabs’ to find or switch to a different window that they cannot currently see could benefit from another screen.
one wide or ultra wide display may not work as well, as some programs simply aren’t made with that aspect ratio in mind. we have one program here that insists upon being in a maximized window–always. a lot of wasted space, even on a 16:9. that user has two 5:4 instead and loves that setup.
Having two has definitely helped me, because most of my job is comparing what this thing says to what that thing says, but any more than that sounds like a bit much.
As someone who never understood multiple monitors, one day I just got a second one and now I feel working without a second monitor is limiting.
Having said that, I can’t see a use for a third monitor at all (not to say it’s completely useless. I’m sure some people find it useful).
When I was a CAD draftie, multiple monitors were a godsend.
Two at least. I am an accountant and constantly comparing at least two things. I have never been able to work on a laptop, need the multiple screens.
That’s a use case I can agree with. Iff the two things you’re comparing actually take up the width of 1 monitor, each.
OK so now imagine 4 things you’re doing and they take up the width of one monitor each. Ok, now expand that to a different metaphor. Imagine your kitchen, but you only have enough counter space for just the cutting board. Anytime you need to put something in a pan you have to hold the cutting board in one hand and pull a pan out and then put whatever is on the cutting board onto the pan, etc. Imagine cooking an entire meal like this. It would be a nightmare.
If you’re working on one thing, and that one thing requires referencing several different things, then having to juggle them rather than just look to a different monitor slows you down significantly. I don’t think you necessarily need 8 monitors, that sounds like a neck injury waiting to happen, but 2-4 is almost necessary in any workplace or even playing video games at home (game wiki on one screen, game on the other).
OK so now imagine 4 things you’re doing and they take up the width of one monitor each
That’s an assumption I [Edit (bad English):
contendchallenge]. Often when I see people who claim they need n monitors, then they’re wasting screen space like nothing. For instance, giving 2560px to a web browser that effectively uses the 920px in the middle to display text, because reading a line across 17 inches is terrible./shrug You can challenge that assumption, and it might be the case for you, but if you’re a developer, or you’re working in applications like DaVinci Resolve, or you’re comparing multiple spreadsheets, or you’re comparing a spreadsheet with your taxes, or the list goes on and on. For example, here is someone developing a game with Unity https://i.sstatic.net/TrHVR.png and they don’t even have their IDE window up!
Here’s a really good example 😉 https://www3.nasa.gov/specials/mcc360/
Your first example is exactly what I’m talking about. 2/3 of screen space are wasted and literally show an empty void. And you’re telling me it’s essential to see that?
I grant you that this might change as development goes on, but as the screenshot stands now, it’s an argument in my favor.
As for the NASA image: I see that all these indicators may be open, so the user can immediately see when one flashes red. That isn’t so much the case for people who have discord (or task manager, WTF?) open on a full screen. Or a calendar, as I mentioned in another comment.
Also: Are you a NASA engineer?
Any more displays than one and its gonna fry my brain. I can only keep attention to one at a time.
I love having a lot of desktop real estate. Instead of flipping through multiple desktops, I can keep everything in eve view all day long.
I love having two monitors at work, have been working this way for ~15 years now. At home, not so much, almost all the time one screen is enough.
If I have one that’s sufficiently big I don’t need two. 24" is usually all I need. Helps to have 20/20 vision as well and use smaller fonts.
Giant monitor >>> multiple monitors. For my internship of making 3D animations I had a really big monitor on my desk. I could fit every single viewport and UI element I ever needed on that screen!
I find multiple monitors better. The physical separation helps in creating mental separation, allowing me to focus on the currently important areas and ignore the periphery.
Started working on double monitor setup still in the 90s (two big ass crts) and never went back. I tried some ultrawides, but always default to 2x instead.
If you want to ignore the periphery, anyway, why do you need to see it in the first place?
Focus.
Say I’m working on Photoshop. I may need to use the palettes, tool presets, brush catalogue, alerts, etc, but then I may want to ignore them and focus purely on the image.
3D - I can put references on secondary screen and peek at them every now and then, but not have them distract me while modeling and texturing.
I can put tools like calculator, notepad and timer - all accessible, but all out of the way.
Using a 50" TV for computing got me off dual monitors. I can use the main living room TV as a second, but only later in the day if I want a video on the big one.
My boss has three two! I have two and it annoys me. I would rather have one large screen but I don’t rank enough to get one at work.
32 monitors is definitely excessive.
My workstation at home only limits me to two, once I get a bigger space I’m going for three.
Dude either needs to streamline to two monitors, or pick up iRacing.
Only reason I’d have 3 monitors is for racing sims, but even then I usually use VR anyway.
Two is fine for most.
I have 3 monitors at work and at home. 2 isn’t enough!
I think we’re forgetting we are outliers here. Most of the public don’t need 3 monitors 😂 us nerds wouldn’t be happy until we have 5+
Three monitors is incredibly handy sometimes.
I have two, but one is in pirtrait mode. I use it when I need to read through a document but also can have two windows one above other to simulate a second monitor and use it like that at work fairly regularly.
