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Ultrawide monitor, especially for gaming.

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perhaps even superultrawide

why have 2 monitors side by side when you can have one monitor to rule them allgame on?

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I thought for so long whether go get a 1440p UW or just standars 1440p. In the end I opted for the standard one. Maybe one of these days I’ll try it but the price point just wasn’t there imo.

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Keyboard. It’s got hotkeys for the most used characters. It’s so much faster than manually drawing each character in Paint.

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I haven’t used CJK languages in a long time, but for a while I was running a Japanese version of Windows NT and for text input there was an option to draw the character in a small paint window.

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Wow, my MS paint workflow is feeling attacked right now.

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You don’t have to use every shortcut you know.

People need to think too, and the less repetitive one’s workflow, the less time one has to think.

Time efficiency gains assume practically infinite cognitive resources. Normal human workflow is think/execute/think/execute. Jobs that are only think/think/think/think are unnatural and fuck up your brain. Especially if you think of reality as a sort of test suite you can run against new neural patterns to weed out the ones built on unreliable patterns.

So you do you bro. You take your time on those precious chars. I do recommend you learn chinese in that case though, or Egyptian heiroglyphics. You get a lot more information out of each bmp file that way.

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One of these, the world’s most sophisticated form of protection.

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Electrical tape is classier.

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It is? What if you want to remove it? Plus a cup gives a kind of lampshade vibe.

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I make a flap out of gaffer’s tape for any device I use without a built in physical cover for the webcam

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My webcam has a built in physical privacy slider

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I feel like whenever they actually include that they’re pulling a Sun Tzu on us.

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they sell little plastic laptop camera sliders online for nearly nothing that are more convenient and visually modest

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They have improved then since the picture was made, as I used to go to the store and they’d take advantage of the fact people feel they need the sliders so bad and sell them at the price of an umbrella. And then it was realized after looking at bathroom cups that not only can you make them in an instant for free but also that the translucent ones can imbue certain effects.

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YubiKey

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Wuzzat?

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It’s a hardware authentication key. Kinda like a USB flash drive.

You know how some services offer multifactor authentication (MFA), also referred to as two factor authentication (2FA)?

There are typically two types offered: time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) where you have 30-60 seconds to type in a 6-digit code, and SMS-based where they text you a 4-6 digit code (that also expires within a set time frame).

With a Yubikey, you gotta plug in the Yubikey into your computer or phone. Or, there are some models that use near field communication (NFC) and you just need to bring it near the device you’re tryna authenticate.

So rather than typing in those codes you get either from SMS or your authenticator app, you use the Yubikey as your authentication method.

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I need a YubiKey to get 2FA code

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Oh nice ! Thanks for the explanation. Is this type of authentication supported by many apps and services ? Can it completely replace an authenticator app on a phone ?

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Yubikey bio key. Now it’s two factors. Something you are, something you have. It uses a fingerprint to unlock the key.

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A mouse with programmable keys on the side. It’s so convenient combining control keys with mouse movements in one hand.

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I’ve had Shift+W programmed to my thumb button. Way more relaxed way to sprint in most games.

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I have a mouse with 6 buttons on the side and it’s great for gaming. When I used to play fortnite I had all the building mapped there so I could do all my building with my right thumb and it wouldnt distract my left hand from movement controls

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It’s certainly great for gaming. I didn’t expect it would make things so much easier on everyday use as well.

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Get the Logitech G600 and have essentially 24 buttons on the side (12 + a “shift” button to give each of those 12 a different command).

To be fair, I only use about 6 of those buttons, haha.

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If the software allows it you can have a button that changes between mouse modes with different button mappings. Infinite buttons

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MMO mouses for programming

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Are they useful outside of gaming ?

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They have come in handy while using design software

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can you give some examples where it would come handy?

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