The senior dev left monitor looking like those Instagram posts that increase your phone brightness by 100x
My homeoffice setup is right next to a window, so it’s too bright for dark mode during the summer. So I work in light mode from about April-September and in dark mode for the rest of the year
Dual monitors are so 2000’s. It’s all about the single large ultra-wide monitor now. You get the benefits of a dual monitor setup without the line in the middle and the RSI neck pain issues.
but can you do the double click maximise thing?
EDIT : or the “windows” + arrow to other screen thing?
Yep and in Windows 11 you now have premade window placements so if you hover the maximise button you can select e.g. “right hand, one third width” and another program for “left hand, two thirds width” etc. I use it all the time. I do have a second monitor on top of the ultra wide but mainly because it’s a special colour accurate monitor, for productivity I was doing fine with just the one big UW for years.
Check out PowerToys fancyzones feature if you haven’t yet.
I did check it out at some point but didn’t stick with it, can’t remember why.
Yup!
I prefer a single ultra wide because it doubles as a dock. I can get all my USB devices and laptop power connected with a single USBC cable.
There’s that too. With USB ports it can operate as a pseudo KVM between a desktop and a laptop.
I don’t get it but it’s still funny
Used dark (not black) themes everywhere for 8 years. My eyesight is still good according to my annual physical, but recently I’ve noticed that I have a hard time reading text written on a dark background. It is slightly blurred, especially when there is no light in the room.
Somewhere I still use dark themes, but I always try to switch to light mode if things look okay with code highlighting or smth.
Physical? As in a medical exam with a doctor?
If so you should really have a check up with an eye doctor, there are lots of eye health tests that you should regularly get beyond checking that you can read a chart at a distance.
This right here, guy is like “I can’t see the light shooting at my eyes, but every thing is okay otherwise, I’ll just live with it.”
For me, it’s light mode for work and dark mode at home.
