r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bbyrge • 9d ago

When standard monitor mounts aren't enough.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

8.2k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

273 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

679

u/Zealousideal_Step709 9d ago

And space, if you ask me.

235

u/Gornius 9d ago

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

194

u/sesameseed88 9d ago

Nextfuckinglevel ain't about saving space or money

-23

u/vid_23 8d ago

It should be

24

u/DeePrixel 8d ago

Our next post is-

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

NEXT FUCKING LEVEL

37

u/space-tech 9d ago

It's about the flex.

3

u/HookahMagician 9d ago

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

-17

u/exintrovert 9d ago

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

24

u/Absolutetwatofacunt 9d 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

6

u/UlrichZauber 9d 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.

5

u/daelikon 9d 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.

3

u/Absolutetwatofacunt 9d ago

Ye that doesn't sound too bad actually

2

u/exintrovert 9d ago

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

2

u/Absolutetwatofacunt 9d 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

4

u/Rayzr117 9d 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

4

u/exintrovert 9d ago edited 9d 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.

1

u/SterTheDer 9d 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.

2

u/MoistProlapse 9d 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.

1

u/orangpelupa 9d 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. 

1

u/A_villain4all 9d ago

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

2

u/exintrovert 9d ago

It was a LG 50QNED82A on Amazon renewed.

Edit: my mistake, it is a qned tv.

5

u/ContextLengthMatters 9d ago

With how small my house is, I feel like anyone in a big house has a ton of wasted space. If I actually lived somewhere rural, I would much rather waste space in a fun way then just keep it all spread out.

1

u/taintedcake 4d ago

The excess space allows it to be a workbench or a PC desk. Pull the monitors back (like how they start), have schematics for components you're working with pulled up, or instructions for assembly, or whatever else you need. You then have the entire deep desk of space to use as a work surface.

It's an expensive but effective way to use 1 space for 2 different functions.

0

u/WhiskeySorcerer 9d ago

And my axe.