> On Dec 23, 2021, at 4:05 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 02:05:01PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote:
>>
>> Someone heard Keith complaining.
>> <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/lgs-1618-ultra-tall-monitor-means-less-scrolling/>
>
> Interesting, thanks for that. The 2560x2880 LG screen
> has a display area 20.6 inches tall, and the bezels look
> like 0.7 inch top and bottom, so 22 inches high.
>
> Allowing 3 inches underneath for stand and keyboard and
> mouse, that would extend 25 inches above the desktop.
> The support pillar in the arstechnica photo appears to
> clamp to the back of the desk. For my setup (a workbench
> with a back shelf, 1970s Tektronix surplus) I would bolt
> it though a hole drilled through the back of the benchtop.
>
> I make "tall" by with two rotated, side-by-side Planar
> PL1910M displays, 1024x1280, using xrandr to turn the left
> image counterclockwise and the right clockwise. That puts
> the narrower "top" bezel edges (0.85 inch) together in the
> center. Display area 15 inches high by 2 times 12 inches
> wide. 107 pixels per inch.
>
> With keyboard and mouse beneath the two-head rotating
> stand, the top of the screen bezels are 20 inches above
> my desk, level with the reference bookshelf behind.
>
> As I write this, my screens display three xterms,
> two 111X * 33Y xterms on the left (with a gnome/mate
> panel on top), and the larger-font 100X * 62Y xterm I
> write this email in on the right screen. I could use
> smaller fonts, but then my emails would grow too lengthy.
>
> I use a KVM switch on one of the screens so I can switch
> it to a second machine. Handy for debugging machine "B"
> while looking at documentation and notes on machine "A".
>
> Some websites emit pages too wide for a 1024 pixel screen
> (google search does this to fit in more ads). For those
> sites, I stretch the display window between screens, and
> arrange the "gutter" to cut through vertical white space.
> Annoying, but it does give me bigger pixels to read with
> my aging resolution-challenged eyes.
>
> A better arrangement might be clever software: a user-aware
> web-browser that can massage and filter web content for me,
> still downloading the banner ads and useless sidebars, but
> directing them to /dev/null, not my screen. Extra bonus
> points if this engaged a background process that "clicks"
> and downloads ALL the extraneous ads and sidebar content
> to /dev/null, providing more revenue for the sites I
> choose to visit while exhausting the ad budget of the
> more pernicous advertisers.
>
> My computer should serve me, not the attention thieves.
>
> Keith
>
> P.S. I have a lifetime supply of spare Planar displays,
> most recently purchased used for $20 each. Some banding
> and a blown speaker on the oldest.
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
The adblocking bonus points sounds a lot like adnauseum (https://adnauseam.io/)
