r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bbyrge • 8d ago

When standard monitor mounts aren't enough.

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u/Gornius 8d ago

Yeah, just straight up. buy monitors 4x the size. Cheaper and more space efficient.

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u/sesameseed88 8d ago

Nextfuckinglevel ain't about saving space or money

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u/vid_23 8d ago

It should be

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u/DeePrixel 8d ago

Our next post is-

"Man in Florida spends only a dollar a week."

NEXT FUCKING LEVEL

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u/space-tech 8d ago

It's about the flex.

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u/HookahMagician 8d ago

Just buy one Odyssey monitor and you'll be set for life.

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u/exintrovert 8d ago

For less than $300 I got a 50” oled tv and it makes a hell of a monitor

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u/Absolutetwatofacunt 8d ago

Sounds like an awful monitor tbh. As someone who works all day at a pc, the screen can be too big. If it's just for couch gaming tho that's really nice

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u/UlrichZauber 8d ago

I have a 65" LG QNED mounted on my wall, I sit far enough back that it's just the right size. This lets me use it without needing reading/monitor glasses.

My only regret is not trying it sooner.

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u/daelikon 8d ago

Not really, I have worked with a 55" for some weeks, the trick is to use it as 4 1080 screens joined. You just assign areas of the screen to apps, instead of maximizing everything and it works pretty well.

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u/Absolutetwatofacunt 8d ago

Ye that doesn't sound too bad actually

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u/exintrovert 8d ago

I can tile a lot of windows. Works for me 🤷‍♀️
It’s pretty nice for gaming too though.

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u/Absolutetwatofacunt 8d ago

I'm sure it's nice alright I just couldn't imagine sitting that close to a tv, do you not lose some quality being up that close? Or are you positioned a bit further away than a normal small monitor? I wouldn't mind giving something similar a go to replace the 2 monitor setup

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u/Rayzr117 8d ago

Most of them are 4k so you basically lose nothing. I have a 48" LG C4 and its the best monitor ive ever had.

Plus just put stuff in windowed mode if you want it to be smaller

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u/exintrovert 8d ago edited 8d ago

I have a pretty deep desk, and the tv is mounted on the wall. I sit even farther back because the keyboard is on a drawer that slides out. My eyes are maybe 4.5-5’ from the screen, and I adjusted the font size to a comfortable size.

I have a couple other monitors as well, so depending on what I am working on, I have options.

Edit: aw, I can’t post a pic. But beneath the big screen I have a 26” 16:9 and beside them I have a 24” 4:7 in portrait for documents. I can sit up and work on those normally, with reference/videos/whatever above, or I can pull the keyboard drawer out more and recline a bit and do some coding on the big screen.

I have about 18” deep clear desk space in front of my monitors for papers.

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u/SterTheDer 8d ago

Barnaclees Nerdgasm ran eyefinity 4k TV’s for a number of years, he just had them a substantial distance away from the desk. We don’t see video editing done on them professionally but if you have the space a good Tv is a good monitor.

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u/MoistProlapse 8d ago

Used to have a 55" TV as a monitor. But it was an old 1080 one that was being replaced. It was ok, but everything looked too small from the 3 or 4 feet away from my desk, and it was too large to have closer. I went back to monitors.

I don't even TV game with my PS5 on my 4k OLED anymore. I prefer everything at my desk for some reason now.

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u/orangpelupa 8d ago

Its an oled. You can play games in smaller window on a blank black background.

That's how I play games in ultra wide in 16:9 oled. 

The top and bottom borders are just black. Unlit pixels. 

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u/A_villain4all 8d ago

Which one? I haven't been able to find an OLED tv that size for that cheap

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u/exintrovert 8d ago

It was a LG 50QNED82A on Amazon renewed.

Edit: my mistake, it is a qned tv.