I'm chaotic good

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IGuessThisIsForNSFW@yiffit.net · 49 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Oh no

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Biblically accurate battlestation.

milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Not enough eyes

tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y

I believe the appropriate pronunciation is "Muahahahaha!".

Evil goatee can be added for maximum effect.

BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 1y (7 replies)

just call me the BBEG

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

My god.....

variants@possumpat.io · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

whats with the plexiglass, do those launch nukes or something?

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have a cat

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

So then yes, it's to prevent the launching of nukes.

biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

jesus, and i thought my dual laptop setup was crazy

TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

why do you have 3 laptops

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

I have 1 daily driver (personal) and 1 work.

The other is an old one that runs twitch / Spotify/ youtube while I work on a separate pair of headphones so the work productivity monitoring software doesn't pick it up.

I'm hybrid so I have to take the work computer into the office once a week and on work travel trips

My daily driver also has to be portable so I can play games next to my wife on the sofa sometimes, or I also use it for video, voice over and music editing so being able to move it also helps.

Also I sometimes use the twitch/spotify/youtube laptop to show sheet music while I record on my daily driver without worrying about fan noise.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (9 replies)

I don’t know which one I am:

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 1y

Clearly working for a pyramid scheme.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

I use Vert Horiz Vert. Like the letter H.

Come at me bros.

Soup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I have to know what you’re doing with this if it’s not, like, watching security footage. I can see a number of uses but all of them(that I can think of) are productivity based and are the kind of thing where you never really spend long periods of time on any one screen.

mipadaitu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I see a lot of folks using that setup where the upper monitor is playing video, like Netflix or YouTube as background entertainment while doing other stuff on the bottom two, mostly coding/work type stuff.

Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

That makes sense. I’m tall so my main monitor sits high enough up that my laptop fits underneath which is the same vibe but inverted.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

This is my work-from-home setup.

2 is my laptop opened all the way and sitting in a vertical stand, so the screen is above and a little behind the other monitors, and the laptop camera is top center. I put Teams up there, so I can notice if I’m being messaged.

1 and 3 are on a dual arm stand. They are where I do my actual work. All kinds of stuff.

SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Mine is like this but upside down (2 is a laptop) and with a large gap between the top two. Sort of Mickey mouse head style, but all the same size. I primarily use 2 and 3.

Probably chaotic evil for these as well, since they didn’t even make the chart.

jqubed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Neutral Good here but I would do this if I had my monitors on arms so I could raise them above my open laptop screen; I don’t like having a gap or having the screens blocked by the laptop.

lobut@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
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CountVon@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Chaotic neutral. Vertical monitor is best code review monitor.

SaintWacko@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's also best for documentation!

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1y

And reading comic books

Player2@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What is it considered when my side monitor is about 10% obscured by my main one because my monitor arm doesn't open wide enough?

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And then there’s this hilarious thing from Swordfish:

A custom, multi-display supercomputer built to hack government systems in the movie Swordfish.

zod000@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

I unironically love that thing from Swordfish even if deep down I know it is dumb.

grue@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The real chaotic evil:

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How?? Lol

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I don't know, I think that sort of insanity transcends alignment.

Soup@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Chaotic neutral is, unironically, the best for a lot of work related tasks. It takes up less space on a desk and the vertical monitor just makes a lot of sense for reading Teams/Slack/whatever, answer emails, reading documents, etc.. I actually picked it up from a friend who uses a vertical curved monitor and he said it was great for coding related work. Don’t skimp on the resolution, though, ‘cause you’ll probably want 1440p to make sure the words are clear. 4k is fine but probably overkill and needlessly expensive.

When I worked from home I had my personal 34” curved screen in the middle of my desk for AutoCAD and a vertical monitor from work fit perfectly between the main monitor and the edge of the desk. T’was brilliant. And I’m tall so my main screen is high enough up that my laptop fits underneath and I can watch shows and stuff

Verti-hori for lyyyfe.

Miphera@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What does mine count as?

hashferret@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Tie fighter gang.

SaintWacko@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y

The best setup!

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

This might be my ideal setup.

rem26_art@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Based because Beigguang

cook_pass_babtridge@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Chaotic bad

bbuez@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't @ me, there's no going back

Tiling WM turns the 21:9 into 2 or 3 panes perfect for reading

Chaos

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I hope that SpaceX capsule brings you home safely.

Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y (6 replies)

For the first time ever, I'm apparently lawful evil.

TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (5 replies)

But... why? How is that better than just putting them next to each other?

Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Back when native resolution was 4:3 it made more sense to have them side by side, but 16:9 it just makes more sense to have them vertically stacked.

Also, my setup is a 50" 4k TV for the top screen and a 43" 1080p for the bottom, I'd have to look sooo faaar over to see the other screen that I honestly don't have the wall space in my room for it. I am generally reclined on a couch while using it, my head resting is centered on the upper screen with either a reference of whatever I'm working on the lower, though usually it will be a twitch stream I'm tangentially interested in but only need to take a look at it on occasion if I head something interesting happening.

olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Also lawful evil. Why is it better to have them next to each other?

TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have never seen a setup like that personally, so it feels weird to me. But I feel like it would be hard to allways look up to your second screen, because that one wouldn't be on eye hight. And it sounds pretty anoying when you want to drag ans drop your windows by holding them an the top of your screen.

But I get that it has advantages like less space used. Probably mostly feels weird to me, because I don't know it :)

olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

That's a valid point, I'll probably explain why I like it.

I don't look up, I look down for the second and primary is eye height. I'm on Linux with KDE which has a nice 10px boundary before passing onto the next screen so I can snap all I want. I can also snap on my top bar which has the launcher, taskbar and stuff.

I can access my bar from both the top and the bottom which is nice and convenient. Here's a picture of the insanity :)

SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I have my comp in a small nook in the side of my bedroom that's supposed to be where a dresser lives. Couldn't fit two monitors side by side easily so I put two ultrawides, one on top of the other. Works out really nice tbh.

wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'm not on that list LMAO.

Because y'all ask, my monitors are offset diagonally (instead of horizontal or vertical) my main monitor is 4x the size of the other.

rooster_butt@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Was lawful good until I made the switch to 49" ultrawide.

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Only VR goggles for you, eh?

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1y

I do not care for this slander. Vertical screens are used for working on documents or specially for log and debugging visualization.

Underwaterbob@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

I don't subscribe to your morality. I have my second monitor on the floor under the desk.I often unplug it and plug in a projector that's pointing at the wall to my left for YouTube while I work. Haha!

I used to be chaotic good for some time before I decided I needed the desk space more.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What if I have 3 monitors but one is sideways?

WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

I think Chaotic Evil is the catch-all for complicated cases like that

bigFab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

My case

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What does one super ultra-wide the size of 3 count as?

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I'd say more lawful good than neutral.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

You say that until you see how poorly the ui fits and you have to run everything windowed if you want to multi task

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

I bet it's heaven with a tiling WM

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I've wondered about that. Messing around with window sizes seems mildly annoying. Also, what if you have something that wants to be full screen like a game?

Or game + guide, or game + discord? I won't go back to alt-tabbing...

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Windows 11 helps a lot, having the start menu in the center is crucial and you can quickly snap into place with the things at the top, if you really want to you can cut it into three sections and use it as three separate monitors but that voids the entire point of one big display, the experience is like nothing else though at its best I would honestly say it can be as good as the best VR, at its worst well it can be as bad as the worst VR.

rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm lawful neutral, except the monitor is portrait

Moc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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atocci@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I couldn't fit a second monitor on my desk if it weren't for chaotic neutral orientation.

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

My setup isn't on this.... I'm beyond chaotic evil.

My work setup is six displays, four are 1080p, one is 1440p and the last one is the smallest diagonally, but 4K.

None of them are vertical right now though.

NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yeah, I have:
27" 1440p in the middle
24" 1080p to the right
21" 1080p on the upper left
22" 1050p 16:10 on the lower left

All from different manufacturers, two of them bought broken and resurrected. I call it the "chaotic evil necromancer setup". None of them in portrait though.

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

For me, the 1440p is also in the middle, I think mine is a 25", I forget, I've owned most of them for a very long time.

1080p 23" I believe, both left, right, above, and top right. So it's pretty even all around my 1440 main screen.

Top left is actually the built in display of the laptop, which is on a stand to prop it up so it system is basically flat/vertical. It's aspect is more square than 16:10... I think. In any case, it's that aspect ratios version of 4k, but the screen on the laptop is easily the smallest physical size display and it's furthest away since it's on the laptop, which is on a stand, behind my monitor arms for everything else. So it's set back from the rest of the screens by about 3-4".

That's not to mention my KVM, which is triple display, so my 1440p display, and the left+right 1080 displays can be switched to my personal rig, and the two 1080's above (middle and right) are on a USB to display port adapter by USB through the KVM. So my personal computer has 5 displays, and my work laptop has 5 + the built in display.

I got a portable display for my work PC since I'm going on site to a customer site later this week, and I plugged it in to this cacophony (on my work PC), and when I set windows to extend my desktop to it, one of my other displays turned off.... It seems that I've hit my monitor limit for this system.

It's not surprising given that they're almost all connected by displaylink either through the docking station or by the USB to display port adapter, and I'm pretty sure this new display also uses displaylink. Oh well. I can't seem to make it worse for now. If I get any additional screens I'll have to get a thunderbolt egpu for my work system, something I'm already considering since I've noticed frame drops on some of my screens occasionally, which I believe is a bandwidth issue for the displaylink on the USB bus. In that case I'd want to replace my displays on the dock with the connections from the egpu, so only my top displays are connected by displaylink. By doing that, I can easily switch between computers by my existing KVM and get the five screens on both systems. I also suspect that the USB on one of my systems needs to be improved since my personal system also has issues with the displaylink displays, though the three KVM switched displays are to an Nvidia desktop GPU. USB upgrade first on my personal desktop, then I'll think about the egpu again.... Bluntly, I don't need the graphics horsepower on my work system, so it would not be a good investment to beef it up more than it is.

NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I love it!

Gumus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

1000007457

All of the screens are working now, this was an old laptop that couldn't handle that many outputs. I've got a webcam and a small mirror in the hole between the top screens so I can see if anyone entered the room behind me.

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

This is a beautiful setup

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

I count as chaotic evil and embrace it. I have a place for whatever I need to do.

AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

chaotic good

omega_x3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

My work setup is chaotic evil except I don't have the left vertical monitor but all 4 of my monitors are different sizes.

My home setup is just chaotic good.

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

If I read correctly then I have the same setup as you except it's mirrored and the both middle monitors are 21:9.

zod000@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Same here, I don't get why it's chaotic evil. I just buy one monitor at a time, so they can never match.

Brickhead92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

At home I'm a true neutral, and at work a combination of neutral good and chaotic neutral. And when I bring my work laptop home I'm lawful neutral.

Just need to work on neutral evil, then I'll be all neutral.

"What turns a man neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"

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hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

I achieve lawful good while being true neutral by using a single ultra wide curved monitor.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

My old Dell laptop got a dark display corner and a few times of usage later it went completely and permanently dark. So I used an external screen only until I got my new laptop.
Lawful chaotic?

ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

I'm CN after dipping into LE for a year or two. I should combine them into two stacked with a vertical

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I used to be closer to CE with my 3-screen, phone on boom-arm ass setup. Now have reverted to CG since I was getting a bit too excited.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Neutral or chaotic good. The screens are close in size. I don't think they're identical though, so probably chaotic.

milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

In the days of 1024x768, I found turning my one screen over to 768x1024 was great for coding!

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It's a bit problematic to run websites on a vertical 1080p display, since it seems that most websites default to around 1200 or 1280 wide, so you end up having to horizontally scroll. It's problematic.

IDK why it's so difficult to find 1920x1200 displays so I can put a new vertical display on my system.... It's literally the only reason I don't have a vertical display on my system right now.

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Shouldn't zooming out a bit do the trick? Or does the text become too small?

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

The problem is that, at least in my experience, the zoom is set per site, so I'd have to set the zoom on every website.

Also I generally have browsers on multiple screens and drag tabs between them, so I'd be constantly zooming sites based on what screen they're on.

It's literally easier to simply buy a horizontally scrolling mouse and use that, than to fiddle with the zoom all the time.

dwemthy@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 1y

CG personal computer, LN work computer. Same large monitor for both

SlamWich@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I got like a mirrored chaotic neutral going on, evil?

Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Nah, if you decode the lawful scale and the good scale to a number and go with 1 0 -1 for each then you reversed a -1/0 and that's obviously a 1/0. So you're lawful neutral!

I think?

Edit: tried to fix the scale names.

SlamWich@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I appreciate the clarification! Lol

state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

Lawful neutral good

crawancon@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

I'm neutral good with my laptop underneath the center of the two monitors.

Ookami38@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

I have mine set up like lawful good, but the middle one is work, and the side two are personal, and when I'm not working, I move the side two to completely block the middle one. What's my alignment?

eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Used to be lawful good, but have switched to lawful evil and my neck is thankful for it.

enkille@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I'm LN but they're in a LE configuration because my desk has a little raised platform

BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The vertical feature in windows was the best thing Microsoft ever did. My ideal set up is two stacked horizontally oriented screens with a vertical screen either side. Documents, code and web pages are tall, simulation diagrams and PowerPoints, etc, are wide. Fight me.

zod000@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

That is exactly what my setup has been for years, except I now also have an open laptop that shares two of the monitors. My two stacked monitors are ultrawides with my portrait mode screen directly on the left and right.

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

TN. Just one big ass 4k

Denalduh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm neutral good on the left and neutral evil on the right.. Not sure where this falls

mrvictory1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

chaotic neutral

TriflingToad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

vertical 24" on left. Horizontal 32" (gaming one) in middle. 2nd 24" on the right, horizontal

Today@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I'm chaotic good at home, chaotic neutral at work. I usually also have an ipad propped up on the left, so I'm not sure how that plays in.

biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

not sure where my setup stands, i got my ipad in portrait, in the centre of the desk on a stand, with two 14 inch laptops on either side, one phone on the left side of the left laptop, another phone either wedged between the two laptops, or inconveniently chucked in the middle of the giant mousepad.

im thinking somewhere chaotic

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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TechieDamien@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What window manager do you use? Many have an option to overrule what the window wants to do and force it to do what the WM wants it to do. This might solve your problem.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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TechieDamien@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Ah, for some reason I thought this was a Linux sub lol. I am not too familiar with how the graphics stack works on windows tbh nor how to customise it. Sorry.

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

True Neutral. My wife thinks I'm weird.

SaintWacko@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y

I used to have a chaotic evil setup. I was writing code for some AIO PCs used as kiosks on the shop floor, so I needed to test the code on one of the devices. At the height of things, as we were transitioning to a new system, I had two of the kiosks (running different OSs), my laptop screen, and two external monitors, all of them running software that let my mouse and keyboard treat them as one computer.

grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

IMO anything that makes a rectangle with no gaps is lawful good. That includes top left, top middle, middle, bottom left, and bottom middle.

FlashZordon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

True Neutral at home.

Chaotic Good at work because I need a second screen but can't get a matching screen yet.

limelight79@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

I have three monitors. Two 27" in neutral good configuration, then a third smaller 4:3 monitor (not sure what size off the top of my head) in a chaotic good type setup, albeit on the left side, not the right.

My desktop machine can use all three, but the two main monitors are usually tuned to my work laptop.

Mwa@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

true neutral :)

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Also chaotic good. 27" standard monitor on the left, 24" cinema monitor on the right.

luciddaemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Neutral good, dual 32" using hyprland. Most efficient setup I've had in my 8 years in IT/DevOps.

mPony@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Chaotic Neutral + laptop screen still open? summon Man-servant Hecubus!

rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

I guess that makes us screen-siblings, or screen-cousins, perhaps. Maybe we should print up some T-shirts celebrating The One True Way. Maybe some flyers for a recruitment-drive.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

Typically NG, rarely CN. I actually only have two monitors because one died and I needed a new one in short order. The one that died was repaired free under warranty so now I have two.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

This is so evil that it goes far, far beyond chaotic evil and I hope bad things happen to whoever is responsible for this:

zephorah@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
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