Linux @lemmy.ml Sparky @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago

Hey y'all, I got a new monitor.

Too bad the desk space sucks...

Caption: Picture of a giant display in a big event/concert space. The display shows a terminal with the output from hyfetch. End caption

High res image

Anyways here's the real setup that was controlling that big ass screen

Also sorry if the text formatting is messed up (I am posting from mobile)

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wonder how people where confused its not windows nor mac.
- Funnily enough noone noticed that anything was "out of the ordinary". The event organizer, who isn't techy, asked to use my pc so he could transfer some assets for display, sent them over, right clicked the photoshop files, and opened them in a cracked photoshop program i installed using wine. He then proceeded to add some finishing touches and export them as png files without noticing this pc wasn't running windows.
  
  The thing that caused the most hiccups wasn't the os/software, but the hardware. The camera crew handed me some thunderbolt capture cards which didn't work because my $300 laptop which I got for free didn't support thunderbolt. We switched to some usb capture cards, and they worked perfectly without any configuring.
  
  So I guess Linux has reached the title of It just works™️ (at least for this use case)
  
  oh
!Why are you gay?!<

Jokes aside, it's cool to see that.
“Get you spot” - typo??

This is pretty neat! The new tech for big screens is unreal.
- Omg noone noticed that hahahaha. I didn't design the graphic, but I'll let the guy know to fix the spelling. I guess we're all dyslexic...
  
  It’s such an easy one to misspell. I was a graphic artist for years and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this error. Glad I could help! Lmao.
I spot a furry.
- :3
  
  nice desktop wallpaper :3
Nice. It looks like your led has a little hat!

Did you manage to get Linux to output the native resolution of the screen?
- The native resolution of that thing was something along the lines of 1500x1000, but the scaler only accepted 1920x1080, and 1920x1200. Both resolutions had the same top and bottom bars so we assumed something got disconnected during transit, and we didn't bother fixing it as all content was in 16:9 anyways.
  
  For the pictures with hyfetch I just captured the display of the laptop in obs and forwarded it to the big screen as that was more convenient than fiddling with the terminal window on a screen I couldn't see from laptop's position.
  
  Sounds like they had their scaler set up to squash everything. Not the best for content, but the best for accepting whatever people will throw at it. Can't say I'm a fan of not giving you all the pixels you paid for, though!
  
  I miss AV sometimes.
Which distro
- Looks like Kubuntu in the high res image
- Kubuntu
  
  Have you thought about using Arch?
  
  I use Arch, btw.
I see you didnt update yet!

Plasma 6 is great, can highly recommend :)
- I'd say it was "for stability", but the truth is that I forgot to update
Linux socks or it didn't happen!
- We had a dress code so I had to wear pants, which is why I didn't bother putting on some Linux socks. If you want to see the same laptop but with socks then here ya go
Bro definitely robbed a jewelry for that one
- We leased the display for 3 days, and apparently it cost us the equivalent of 5k USD
  
  Now that doesn't sound like something even a robber would consider a decent deal. I guess bro is a part of a black organ market then.
I see you still had the bug where OBS would spam "&" in every title.
- I wonder how that bug happens from a programming standpoint. Despite that bug, it didn't crash or misbehave during the entire 2 day show, so I'm happy.
That's no 20 meter wide display.
- Yeah, that couch isn't more than 3 meters, probably 2.5. I'd say it's a 7 meter wide display.
What the hell is Woola and Nocco?
- Wodla is an event agency that organizes crossfit competitions in Norway and Sweden. Nocco is a company that makes sports drinks with caffeine/vitamins.
yikes.
Wow cool, is it IPS or projection based?
- It's essentially an led screen where each pixel is it's own rgb led. At 0.5% brightness it was still bright enough to over expose my phone camera so I had to dial it down in post.

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