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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 11 days ago

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 11 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/21124885

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  • trumpetmouth@lemmy.world
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    for real though, the CTRL tap accessibility feature to find the cursor is a lifesaver

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      I guess this confirms that I am a man, because I refuse to do anything except jiggle the mouse until I see it.

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        Am woman, learned today you can use CTRL to find it as I too wiggle it until I find it.

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          that’s what she said!

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    I had a similar matrix of screens at my old job: Seismic survey observer desk. Three rows tall, four columns wide.

    They weren’t all connected to the same PC, though; If I remember correctly:

    • Top row was one PC (linux)
    • Middle row was another (linux)
    • Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)
    • Bottom right was its own (linux)
    • middle two at the bottom was windows.

    They were all connected to a Raritan KVM switch, so I used that to select which row to control. The exception was on bottom left and bottom right which had a dedicated keyboard and mouse.

    I have a picture of it somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it.

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      you’d love synergy. it’s a client you install on multiple devices and allows you to share one keyboard and mouse across as many devices as you want.

      you can even share the clipboard too.

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        Well aware of it. Used it between the top two rows.

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      Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)

      really? I used 6.22 back in the day - what’s it still being used for these days?

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        Not sure if it’s still in use today, but the above description was 2008 through 2012. Msdos was used for “gun timing”, which basically amounted to extreme precision when it came to opening or shutting some solenoid valves. The computer had a GPS input and a bunch of serial outputs, and a control line (also serial).

        The control line sent instructions of which solenoid to open when, a time reference was determined by the GPS, and you can probably guess what the serial outputs were for.

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      i had a similar setup when i worked at a NOC.

      thank god i never intended to have children. lol

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  • chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    KDE shaky shaky

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    I’m confused… Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?

  • CForsyth@lemmy.ca
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    Where we're going we don't need any Cursors

    • bss03@infosec.pub
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      Where’s we are going: https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

  • downvote_hunter@midwest.social
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    Fooled us all. That’s a tanning booth.

  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?

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    There’s no way he ever looks at the top row.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      this is why he can’t find his mouse.

  • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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    And people rib me for having 3 screens. Yes yes, tell me how much cancer they are giving me per square second.

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      Wait what? They give cancer? Outgassing or something?

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        Outgassing

        That would be me, sorry.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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        Just merging the conversations: https://lemmy.world/comment/22910631

        Far dumber than you might have guessed. And this is not even close to the dumbest thing I’ve seen working healthcare IT.

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      I have recently pared down to 4 screens and yeah, people take seem to get great enjoyment out of giving me shit. I’ve been receiving this very meme image for a good while. Not sure what triggered the re-run of this one in particular.

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    Ow my neck

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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      I struggle with my neck and 3 screens. I’ve gotten really good at doing a bunch of shit at once on one screen so my neck doesn’t hurt as much lol

    • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
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      Windows are too big. The whole point is to have small windows and multiple screens so you don’t have to move your eyes around in their sockets in the window you’re working which causes eyestrain.

      They might have well just have fewer screens and click through windows.

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    Go to mouse l settings, make your cursor larger and change the contrast. So when the curse is black and it goes over something white and then white when it goes over black

  • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Where the fuck is the image? Not loading for me

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      Check monitor number 8, it may have opened there.

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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      Loads fine for me. It’s someone sitting in front of a desk with 15 large monitors surrounding them in a semicircle, 3 monitors stacked on top of one another in 5 columns.

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    R/Wsb

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    This is a job for a tiling WM. Imagine doing this on Window$.

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