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You may not like it, but this is what peak ergonomics look like
Ray Bradbury warned us of this
I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat...
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.
The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.
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 😂
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
Meanwhile, I've owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.
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
It is also a sexual innuendo.
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...
HOLY SHIT THAT'S WHY IT DOES THAT?!?!?! I learn something new about Linux on this platform every day.
Same in macOS
macOS also has this feature under the name "Shake mouse pointer to locate".
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Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 15 screens ?
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
I think they're great the way they are but maybe somebody will remake Total Recall again with her as Mary.
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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.
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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.
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.
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The dream
I used to think that 15 years ago. Now that's my nightmare.
spamming ctrl
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