If geography is a way to bridge the natural and social sciences, a GIS is basically a tool for combining unlike, often large scale datasets that are hard to compare otherwise. A GIS allows people to see where things occur in time and space and analyse those relationships.
As a GIS tech, there's one missing - the laptop next to an ultrawide. Optional normal monitor to the side :P
But yes, as a former weather forecaster, the 4 in a square is insane and unfortunately it was necessary on bad weather days. At one of my locations, we also had the PC hooked up to a television running behind us and had a separate real time data monitor to the side. So... Yeah.
One of us. In my old job I ran two gaming rigs for processing on a KVM switch. GIS is all about the rig. Only need one or two screens lol. 13 btw lmao.
I don't do modeling or anything, but don't workspaces (virtual desktops) work better? Mostly to avoid moving your head so much around 4 screens. I would think so anyway but i dunno
I work with redlines and you need to have them open on another screen while you're making edits unless you like torturing yourself.
You can print out redlines and look at pen and paper markups which works great but it has negatives like printing a set of 20 page 22x34 drawings can be costly to plot and annoying to go through sheet by sheet
Also, train dispatchers, power grid managers etc. Infrastructure control of any sort. On second thought, maybe they also have an extra keyboard/console (#16).
Ah so all the control freaks and the “tell me more about you and by that I mean tell me more about why you love the MTA system map” kinda crowd, I see.
All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.
I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it...
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
GIS is literally one of the main tools for applied science and there's places with full departments for it. We have specialists as lab techs. It's a science lmao.
The only thing mental is putting up with all of these seams. If you're not in a tactical environment that requires this -- say for being able to set up and move on the fly -- then just get a big ass monitor. They're life changing.
Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.
I'm none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.
Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.
Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.
I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it's a big TV on the wall of my office that's usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I'm meeting with people in my office.
I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.
Can someone explain to me how to connect so many monitors? Like I had two HDMI ports and I think thats pretty normal? How are people doing 3+ monitors?
You can daisy chain displayport, as long as you have the bandwidth for it. I think the real issue is not how many monitors, but just how many pixels you're trying to drive. Since secondary monitors are typically 1080p, the whole collection of them should be the same as a 4k main monitor.
You need a graphics card or smth to even have the ability to have >3 displays. Some Macbooks have a 2 screen limit, so if you want to use only external monitors you have to close the lid. PC graphics generally allow at least 3 screens.
But thunderbolt usb is an option.
Linus Tech Tips did a video on having windows alongside macOS on the smae machine.
They did it by having both as VMs on a barebones linux machines.
Theoretically you could then dedicate each one of the operating systems to an OS, and run linux, windows, and mac side by side.
My guess kn feasibility: very hard.
Says who? I choose purposefully to let things be more free from as that is what I have observed from other science communication communities. A science community without room to experiment isn't much of a science community.
if you have two nicee wide monitors that's a pretty good way to do it, gives you the benefits of a 2x2 setup but without the bezel breaking up your code halfway through.
5 but mostly because I like looking at pretty jwst pictures when I die in a video game. Technically it's for my music player and monitoring torrents...
My Multi-DPI setup constantly brings joy to me :) i just upgraded to two of the same monitors because of it. (Now there is only the TV, that somehow always fucks something up :D)
I am close to #1, but I have a 16:10 not 16:9 monitor. My laptop lid is always closed. I am a 100% one monitor person.
I am considering an ultrawide at home, but I fear that I will get problems at work if I cannot have the same there. I am not sure, if the linear window manager I am using makes sense with an ultrawide. And third issue: My existing monitor is still good and and awesome features which seem to be rare on other except gaming monitors: auto brightness and presense sensor. At work I can live without these two things, because the desk space has alsways the same brightness.
Although in both cases all screens are different sizes and i have a kvm set up at home which allows me to switch the two larger (but still differently sized) screens to show my raspberry pi desktop or my wifes laptop for when she works from home where she has a 13 setup.
Edit: Actually i completely forgot, i have a small kvm at work too with a pi500 connected dual booting raspian and android. I use raspian to play classic dungeon keeper (with keeperfx mod) on my breaks, and android just to mess around and see what its capable of.
I have a software repo with multiple files that are over 5000 lines, IG wouldn't fit on 10 monitors. I may concede my predicesors who made it this way have a mental illness, but I have to get work done, and it requires reading that file on an appropriately large monitor.
I had 6 (3x 27" 16:9 monitors), and then wound up with a 34" 21:9 ultra wide for my middle monitor. The side monitors stopped fitting on the triple monitor arm I had, but just barely. Enough that turning the monitors portrait made them fit again... so I'm pretty close to 10 right now.
Man.. All those configurations and my monitor setup still isn't shown.
I have two landscape with the right landscape being my main monitor, then another two portrait off to the right for scrolling and chat.
#3 is also dumb. Can’t do a single thing right in front of you, the thing is always off to one side or the other. Just commit to #5 if you want two monitors, or do what I’ve also done where my laptop fits underneath my main monitor(only applicable if you are tall enough to warrant such a high monitor placement).
Idk maybe its a personal preference difference but i like my eyes to be level with the middle of the monitor and i dont like to have to tilt my head up or down to see another screen.
What's gis? Cos apparently I'm one.
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Wut….?
were gis'ers!
Now gith...
I, too, gis'ed in my pants at work.
Im so confused
If geography is a way to bridge the natural and social sciences, a GIS is basically a tool for combining unlike, often large scale datasets that are hard to compare otherwise. A GIS allows people to see where things occur in time and space and analyse those relationships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
Just here to point out that Stephen Crowder is a shithead.
As a GIS tech, there's one missing - the laptop next to an ultrawide. Optional normal monitor to the side :P
But yes, as a former weather forecaster, the 4 in a square is insane and unfortunately it was necessary on bad weather days. At one of my locations, we also had the PC hooked up to a television running behind us and had a separate real time data monitor to the side. So... Yeah.
One of us. In my old job I ran two gaming rigs for processing on a KVM switch. GIS is all about the rig. Only need one or two screens lol. 13 btw lmao.
13 is: can't afford wide screen, can get another small screen from stores
Mental illness is almost all of finance. That checks out 100%.
Which one is most common for finance?
8,11 16
10 with a giant central screen is fairly norm now too.
When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.
tbf number 8 could be used for security too
GIS as in geographic information systems?
Gastro-intestinal system
Girls in socks
I'm not even on the chart
Those characters in your desktop seem awfully gleeful at your future neck ache.
My bed is right behind this picture and I sometimes lie down and turn right to look at the main monitor. Turning left-up balances it.
I ain't moving this has been my setup for 2 years at this point
Lmg, the top one is for playing music off YouTube?
It's for messaging. I put Matrix and Discord over there. Chat and OBS also goes there when I stream.
So all I do is occasionally look over at it. It's not really a problem for my neck.
Look, I'm not here to GIS anything. That's my pinball monitor.
What's GIS
Geographic Information Systems aka digital mapping aka fancy databases
Interesting... still works without the new fangled fancy databases.
It's databases all the way down, brother.
Thanks
alternate spelling for jizz. it's a porn watching setup.
geographic information system
Asking the important questions, we need to know what we are @[email protected]
See above.
Since then I've upgraded the laptop so it actually runs on all screens. And I can switch to the desktop with a KVM.
Dragon theme -> hoarde of monitors. Checks out.
Super nice looking setup.
My KVM is the best piece of technology I've purchased. That's an impressive KVM to run that setup.
8 is just CCTV cameras
Mine is not here. Ultrawide, with regular above it
You know where you belong
In the normal part of the diagram?
🥺
👉👈
That's me too.
Same, except 3 regulars above the ultra wide
So normal they forgot to even include it
Modeling and CAD generally require up to 4 monitors.
Though I'd say working with complicated apps regularly will give you a mental illness, so fair.
Like it says, mental illness.
I don't do modeling or anything, but don't workspaces (virtual desktops) work better? Mostly to avoid moving your head so much around 4 screens. I would think so anyway but i dunno
I work with redlines and you need to have them open on another screen while you're making edits unless you like torturing yourself.
You can print out redlines and look at pen and paper markups which works great but it has negatives like printing a set of 20 page 22x34 drawings can be costly to plot and annoying to go through sheet by sheet
What's wrong with #8? Looks like a normal trader setup to me.
My setup is off the charts, tho, as usual.
Aren't traders supposed to be mentally ill?
Also, train dispatchers, power grid managers etc. Infrastructure control of any sort. On second thought, maybe they also have an extra keyboard/console (#16).
Ah so all the control freaks and the “tell me more about you and by that I mean tell me more about why you love the MTA system map” kinda crowd, I see.
The keyboard position of 3 and 13 implies that one would stare directly at the gap where the monitors meet. I hope nobody does that.
All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.
I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it...
I do it :(
I have one thats not represented here. Im fairly sure it belongs on the lower right.
Your office needs some art good goddamn, sick set up though.
Lets be real, 4 and 8 are "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our tiling window managers" 99% the time in practice.
These are my emotional support monitors
How is this a science meme
Lauch Lauch Lauch
Nearly my entire department uses it and the department below me and next to me to do STEM, would you like to tell us how to do our jobs better lol
Not even remotely close to what I was saying
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GIS is literally one of the main tools for applied science and there's places with full departments for it. We have specialists as lab techs. It's a science lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science
Is this my sign to get in to GIS?
Do you like maps?
More importantly, do you like doing the work of a fullstack developer but getting paid and treated like a barely-tier 2 support desk person?
Real.
Didn't realize it was that bad
Whenever I play D&D, I turn into the mapmaker. Send help.
YT search: "QGIS Fantasy Maps"
My DM's gonna love it when I start asking about elevation changes in more specific detail.
I love a good elevation map.
PS Feel free to DM if you need data sources. I got loads.
10 software engineer
Why? Don't need the width on the main 4:3 monitor in the middle?
slaps roof of vertical monitor this bad boy can fit so much code on it
Also documentation, chats...anything text heavy, really.
I'm wondering more about the 4:3 monitor in the middle, with the keyboard in front which indicates it's the primary monitor.
It's nice if you have two buffers side by side in vim
Console output can be long
User of culture, I see…32” 4k in the middle, 27” vertical 1440p on either side for me.
My setup isn't even in this list....
Big fail not having Doom on the screen for this metal af pic
It adds to the surrealism
Windows xp is one step up from doom: any device that can run xp can run doom.
The only thing mental is putting up with all of these seams. If you're not in a tactical environment that requires this -- say for being able to set up and move on the fly -- then just get a big ass monitor. They're life changing.
Easier to move windows around using the windows+arrow keys this way. Easier to share screen this way. Easier to switch context this way.
You can set up your own windows snap patterns and you can share windows instead of full screens.
Yup. But both are more difficult to use in practice, and I’ve been on enough calls where the person shares their entire 40” ultra-wide, to encourage it. I run with three monitors, and replacing any of them is trivial. The biggest problem is the KVM, and that’s ~$200.
Lol, fair enough. None of it is mental if I'm not required to use it myself.
I'm none of these. I have two normal and one rotated 90 degrees for the odd legal sized document that gets scanned in. When I was doing a lot of data entry in one of my jobs, it helped.
I'm 5, because I'm writing and reading a lot. It makes no sense to have a horizontal screen for text.
My GIS rig is different than any of those.
Vertical monitor on the left, ultrawide lifted a bit high on the right, and open laptop screen beneath the ultrawide.
Verticals for email, teams, etc. Big ultrawide is mostly for main GIS window and spreadsheets, and laptop screen is kinda general purpose.
I actually have a 4th monitor technically, but it's a big TV on the wall of my office that's usually turned off, but that I can use for presentations or screen-sharing when I'm meeting with people in my office.
Holy.... a GIS meme in the wild
I have a 27in main, a 21in on its immediate right, a 27in led TV on the left side of the room and an old CRT on the right side of the room. All cables go under the carpet.
Get bent, fucking casuals!
Can someone explain to me how to connect so many monitors? Like I had two HDMI ports and I think thats pretty normal? How are people doing 3+ monitors?
You can daisy chain displayport, as long as you have the bandwidth for it. I think the real issue is not how many monitors, but just how many pixels you're trying to drive. Since secondary monitors are typically 1080p, the whole collection of them should be the same as a 4k main monitor.
USB video dongles.
You need a graphics card or smth to even have the ability to have >3 displays. Some Macbooks have a 2 screen limit, so if you want to use only external monitors you have to close the lid. PC graphics generally allow at least 3 screens. But thunderbolt usb is an option.
I have a tower pc with graphics card, dual booting windows and linux so in theory I can put 3 on here? Interesting
Linus Tech Tips did a video on having windows alongside macOS on the smae machine. They did it by having both as VMs on a barebones linux machines. Theoretically you could then dedicate each one of the operating systems to an OS, and run linux, windows, and mac side by side. My guess kn feasibility: very hard.
https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo
My laptop and a thunderbolt dock can do 4, a 4k panel, 2 qhd and a 1080p all at 30fps
Every Screen adds on bandwidth needs, the more pixes and faster refresh, the fewer screens you can handle.
You can get there with multiple gpus, or if you have lower demands, usb->html
Good grapics cards have 3, you're not limited to one graphics card
I have a CRT and a standard flat screen where am on this?
poor
I'll have you know CRTs are obnoxiously pricey in my region.
yeah but it's cheap to still use one left over from the 90s
GIS? Graphical, IT and what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science
Digital Maps aka Fancy Databases
#7 is pretty common for radiologists
Half of those setups make zero practical sense and are only there because someone thought symmetry would look cool.
Either one secondary monitor that can be pivoted 90° or two, one being horizontal, the other vertical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_science
I know what GIS stands for. But how is this a science meme?
Entryism to get people asking about GIS, of course.
That's pretty loose connection to science memes but ok
You're welcome to post content you want to see.
I see what you're saying but that is not how a topic based sub works ...
Says who? I choose purposefully to let things be more free from as that is what I have observed from other science communication communities. A science community without room to experiment isn't much of a science community.
I've seen a coder have exactly two vertical monitors.
if you have two nicee wide monitors that's a pretty good way to do it, gives you the benefits of a 2x2 setup but without the bezel breaking up your code halfway through.
They weren't wide, 21-23" 1080p.
I have an ultra wide and a vertical 1080p it's amazing
5 but mostly because I like looking at pretty jwst pictures when I die in a video game. Technically it's for my music player and monitoring torrents...
I'm none of these.
One large center monitor, a smaller 1080p to the left and right, and above the center large one for a total of four.
Perfect for being a DM.
Ha, I'm not on here. Wait, that's probably a bad thing.
How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?
Probably because they don't have a fourth category for gamers.
I'm #13 but the laptop's in between monitors. Does that count as mental illness?
Sorry, yes...
100%
For work use I’m #13, except I remove the keyboard, put the laptop in front to use that keyboard, then center the monitors behind it.
For personal use, I’m #3
Same
6 but they're all different sizes. One I've had since 2016, one was $20 from goodwill, and the other I found on the side of the road.
Multi-DPI setups are the awkwardest. I've got one too
My Multi-DPI setup constantly brings joy to me :) i just upgraded to two of the same monitors because of it. (Now there is only the TV, that somehow always fucks something up :D)
I have 2 monitors + laptop and my setup isn't even represented here (29" 16:9 and 34" 21:9)
I want to meet the man who uses 7, but 14 scares me.
Nobody ever called me normal before 🥲
11, and accurate. The only thing that stopped me was running out of display ports on my graphics card
#6 with a center at 1920x1080 with the two outside monitors at 2560x1080
What is wrong with #10?
Yeah #10 is how mine is set up. Except the center monitor is an extra wide curved monitor.
You mean which mental illness? Hard to tell. My guess is SAD.
my guess is bunny ears
How come 6 is not mental?
Gaming
I remember doing this with the original DOOM. It took 3 networked PC's running the game to do it, but it gave you so much view.
I only have 2 monitors, and when I play Minecraft I have the game stretched between the two in a wide angle about 30% to the right.
5 reporting in!
9 is my setup but I don't gis on my computer, it's just my home office setup
I am close to #1, but I have a 16:10 not 16:9 monitor. My laptop lid is always closed. I am a 100% one monitor person.
I am considering an ultrawide at home, but I fear that I will get problems at work if I cannot have the same there. I am not sure, if the linear window manager I am using makes sense with an ultrawide. And third issue: My existing monitor is still good and and awesome features which seem to be rare on other except gaming monitors: auto brightness and presense sensor. At work I can live without these two things, because the desk space has alsways the same brightness.
I'm in a GIS-adjacent field and I'm delighted to see both my home (#9) and my office (#13) setups represented!
Pronounced jizz in case there's any doubt.
13 at work 6 at home.
Although in both cases all screens are different sizes and i have a kvm set up at home which allows me to switch the two larger (but still differently sized) screens to show my raspberry pi desktop or my wifes laptop for when she works from home where she has a 13 setup.
Edit: Actually i completely forgot, i have a small kvm at work too with a pi500 connected dual booting raspian and android. I use raspian to play classic dungeon keeper (with keeperfx mod) on my breaks, and android just to mess around and see what its capable of.
I have a software repo with multiple files that are over 5000 lines, IG wouldn't fit on 10 monitors. I may concede my predicesors who made it this way have a mental illness, but I have to get work done, and it requires reading that file on an appropriately large monitor.
16, but the top monitor is a 55" TV mounted to the wall for watching movies.
I'm 13 but, I'm normal I swear
10 seems kinda rad ngl
I had 6 (3x 27" 16:9 monitors), and then wound up with a 34" 21:9 ultra wide for my middle monitor. The side monitors stopped fitting on the triple monitor arm I had, but just barely. Enough that turning the monitors portrait made them fit again... so I'm pretty close to 10 right now.
https://youtube.com/shorts/HuOmSs8F0Yg
Can't believe there isn't laptop with monitor above.
The lowest tech multi-monitor setup
Rocking #6, 2x HD and one UHD
Working my way to 8, but I lack the monitor arms. So it's three across and one-and-a-half above. In my defense, it's three different computers.
I daydream of #16
I've worked on a reverse #10 before (i.e. vertical monitor in the middle, surrounded by two landscape monitors)
Apparently Linux Torvalds works on dual 6k monitors
Man.. All those configurations and my monitor setup still isn't shown. I have two landscape with the right landscape being my main monitor, then another two portrait off to the right for scrolling and chat.
I did theatre shit and qlab on a vertical ultrawide is a dream. I never gave up that layout.
#3 is also dumb. Can’t do a single thing right in front of you, the thing is always off to one side or the other. Just commit to #5 if you want two monitors, or do what I’ve also done where my laptop fits underneath my main monitor(only applicable if you are tall enough to warrant such a high monitor placement).
I'm #6
I am #6.
I'm kind 6. Two regular monitors and one large TV.
I did 4 for a while at a previous job where they'd downsized and had a shitload of 1080p screens spare. Now I'm 1 but its the same number of pixels.
1080p left, QHD middle, ultra wide right.
What if mine's 13 except the right one is vertical? Where does that fit in
Borderline mental Illness, it's the connected laptop that sets it off. I've used one portrait one landscape for coding before though.
What would it be if I do a #2 in the style of #6 and #10
I am saving do create 11...
10 is eve online multibox .. anything with 3 or more really
To me 7, 10, and 14 are the only ones that are totally unhinged.
I have a 6 and an 11.
5 is so much office work, one portrait for reading, one landscape for everything else
Using your laptop as an extra screen should be illegal. Its so ergonomically horrible
I use separate peripherals and it works
Yeah thats exactly the kind of setup that needs to be cracked down on.
Wait, how is it bad? My chin is roughly level with the bottom of the monitor so I don't need to look down that mich
Idk maybe its a personal preference difference but i like my eyes to be level with the middle of the monitor and i dont like to have to tilt my head up or down to see another screen.