a nice problem to have

I will tap my keyboard to wake up the computer/monitor, be able to type in the password, and by the time my monitor wakes up I'm ready to go. I mean, I've been ready to go for the past 4 seconds, but take your time and wake up, monitor.

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Just wait until that one time you PC doesn't lock properly and you type your password into a group chat.

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- Awkward, but just change the pw ezpz
  
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I almost never wait for my pc to start up, thank god I can start it from anywhere with Wake on Lan

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- I'm sure theres a home assistant automation you could do to wake your PC on a motion sensor, or when you get home.
  
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YESSS the middle one of my 3 mismatched monitors takes forever to start!

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I got the same problem and the middle one is a different resolution and because the others turn on first one of those is picked as main desktop and then the centre turns on and everything flashes as the main desktop is swapped around to the middle and I donno how but it will mess up game resolution setting when it lowers down to the side monitor res... It's such a pita that I'm in the habit now of turning the side monitors off and only turn them on when I'm ready to go

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- I wish Windows handled this more gracefully. I ran into one where the secondary monitor woke up first and it would cram all open windows and desktop items onto one screen every time it woke from sleep. Frustrated the user. Fix ended up being to swap the display port plugs. Hasn't been an issue since.
  
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- Similar to a problem I keep having...
  
  Which is every time I go to use my computer every single window is squished into the upper left hand corner into a tiny square
  
  If I minimize everything and then switch over to my computer, I can hover on the windows in the taskbar and they show the correct locations. But when any of them are unminimized they immediately squish to the upper left corner.
  
  It's freaking annoying.
  
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- Interesting, I'd try to keep my main monitor times low in future setups.
  
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My experience has been that the more high-end my computer is, the slower it starts. At least for the BIOS, Windows has loaded very quickly since SSDs (Got my first one around 12 years ago).

Fancy motherboards, memory training, it's a bit sad that a 10 year old budget laptop can get to Windows quicker. Even though I don't really care about the extra seconds of course.

Hell, my new work laptop is a ThinkPad and Lenovo had issues with their BIOS for the entire year. Startup can take over a minute for that crap, despite being a $3000 machine.

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Laptops tend to have a minimized/limited uefi implementation that initializes and boot the bootloader faster.

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Afaik you can turn off memory after every boot.

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My 2002 Pentium M (desktop) with Intel motherboard booted instantly. I liked to use it long after it was obsolete because it booted so fast.

Modern pcs are a hundred times faster and yet take so much longer. And don't get me started on why Windows 10 takes so long from password to desktop.

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- Telemetry loading 🤣😂
  
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Yeah, is this maybe a ThinkPad thing? My work ThinkPad is also on the higher end side, don't remember the exavy price, but was also above 3000€. And my 7 year old low class Asus gaming notebook (bought it for 1000€) without an SSD boots just as fast as the ThinkPad.

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- Lenovo messed up the BIOS and still hasn't fixed it properly yet. It's also random as hell, I had 2 minute BIOS boot times. Went to the options and saved without changing anything, suddenly it got down to 30s.
  
  Total mess. A work colleague also had issues and Lenovo support told them to downgrade the BIOS to an older version. Didn't help. Next ticket they refused support because the laptop didn't have the newest version installed, lol.
  
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Don't know why but i had a bug (don't know if i still do) on Linux, if i don't turn on the monitor fast enough, it will never pick up the video signal until i start a session or restart the pc. It drove me crazy sometimes.

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Have you tried windows? It's similar to linux but it works, you'll get the hang of it real quick

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- I tried installing windows. My house is less drafty, but my computer still doesn't work.
  
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- it works
  
  Lol
  
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- Is it a rolling distro or LTS? How many packages in the official repo? How easy is it to use? What desktop environment does it install by default? Does it package a recent Plasma? Oh and I'm assuming it's systemd right?
  
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- lemmy is not the correct place to promote windows
  
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- I'm good thanks
  
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- Oh sure, unless they haven't bundled your drivers and then you lose days of pain. Some people value their time and having an OS that they don't need to configure everything for, buy specific hardware for, is good. There's a reason Linux is the default for the computers most people use.
  
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Happens to me sometimes when my display freezes for some reason, making it unresponsive to any wake up signal my pc may send. After turning my display off/on, login in blindly and starting Xorg it works again. White LED (indicating no display signal) on my motherbord stays on though, and it's really bright which forces me to restart anyway

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Yes, i have the exact same problem as well (Linux Mint). Anybody got an idea how to solve this?

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- Start your monitor before starting your PC!
  
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Omg I have this issue aaaaa

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I need to upgrade displays badly. Currently have 2x 21" dell 1080p panels that have been good workhorses but.... ugh. Getting old.

I really don't want to go 2x 4k, but multiple monitors are a must... not really liking curved displays, can anyone suggest decent, cheap, 1440p displays w/ hdr, decent refresh and color qual?

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I was like you and didn’t like curved TVs… but I have ultra wide curved displays at home/work, and this use case is awesome! Every part of the screen is about the same distance from my eyes. A typical 34” (3440x1440) is about the same pixel count as 2.5 1080p displays, but with no bezels to split the screen… so it’s perfectly centered. With separate displays I need to center one and set one way off to the side, or center the bezel split and need to always turn my head one way or the other. Webcam is centered. Cable management is easier (one power, one signal). Brackets are less bulky. Desk is cleaner looking.

You’ll get a little less area than 2x 27” 1440p displays.

I don’t know how important HDR is to you. I’ve always had good luck with Dell ultrasharp longevity. They have a 34” for $350.

Dell Curved Gaming, 34 Inch Curved Monitor with 144Hz Refresh Rate, WQHD (3440 x 1440) Display, Black - S3422DWG https://a.co/d/hOrP5cv

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- trying to avoid 4k res for some legacy software that won't scale the f*@ing user interface, it's toolbars become far too small for usability (I have a secondary workstation at work that has a 4k display and I can't use it for modeling / photoshop / etc. use it mostly as a render slave anyway.
  
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This is the one I use: DELL S2721DGF

It's really good and pretty cheap for it's weight class. Only bad thing about it is it's HDR, its' really ugly. You can also look at other displays on the website I linked, rtings is very trustworthy

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- Thanks!
  
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There's those gigabyte ones that hardware unboxed seems to like. Good price too.

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- Thanks!
  
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100% recommended 1440p, anything over 100 refresh rate, definitely HDR, I am in love with my gigabyte monitor, I got an abnormally large size not sure which, but, something extremely close to this:

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Monitor-Display-Response-FreeSync/dp/B08JWCHR5N/ref=asc_df_B08JWCHR5N&mcid=b34085b632e03e78ab235d4806c47a22?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80401905752532&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001431258764&psc=1

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- TYVM!
  
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Recently picked up a pair of ASUS VG27AQ. I had to calibrate them with my x1 idisplay, but the end result was quite good.

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- appreciate the suggestion!
  
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I use a benq 4k color correct monitor. My laptop and ipad acts as a separate displays which usually is enough.

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- Thanks!
  
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Look at Pixio, same panels from South Korea as many of the big names, but at much more affordable prices.

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- NICE! thanks for the suggestion.
  
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There's plenty of not curved monitors these days in fact you pretty much have to go looking for one if you want it.

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Why don't you want to go with 2x 4k? I have 2x 28'' 4k and I think it's totally awesome.

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- So I have a 4k single 24" display with one of my workstations at work, and I don't like how small PS & 3dsmax's user interfaces are scaled. Have to use an older version of max for legacy effects stuff, and it's damned near impossible to just work with.
  
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- Thanks!
  
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Ive been looking into the Gigabye M27Q Pro or the Acer equivalent. Seems like it might fit your bill too?

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- TY for the tip!
  
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Wow, one of the OG old school meme AND used correctly.. Haven't seen one of these in a long time.

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I was there when they were written...

oh. maybe i'm old. brb applying for AARP

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- I was there when 9gags actually have 9 posts per page.
  
  We should carpool to the AARP.
  
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I used to have this problem in my quest for a silent PC: make the loudest thing real quiet - say a passive watercooling rig with no fan and just a quiet aquarium pump, eliminating the CPU fan - and the next loudest becomes "unbearable", fix that one - special watercooled graphics card, connected to the passive watercooling circuit - and the next loudest one becomes "too noisy". Fix that one - new quiet power source with extra large slower and quieter fan and, you guessed it, it's the next loudest noise source that gets on your nerves (in this case, it was harddisks, as all this was many years ago).

Ultimatelly the solution was thinking "out of the box" (in more ways than one) - good quality noise reduction earphones.

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at that point i'd just put the pc in another room and run cables

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it's funny because it's true

even my internet connection needs a couple more seconds to establish connect

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As a projector user, I'm wondering why I spent so much effort to get Windows installed and formatted properly to use its ultra fast boot mode...

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I'm not sure what's up with mine, but it takes like a full 20-30 seconds to get past POST and then another 3 seconds from there to fully boot windows.

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Is yours a new AM5 socket based AMD system by any chance?

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- Yes, why?
  
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Windows takes a long time to boot

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Time for new monitors, I guess

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Who actually turns off their computer?

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Everyone should. It's wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.

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- Hibernate?
  
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- No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.
  
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- I'm gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke
  
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Windows users

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- Windows is my daily driver and all my PCs run 24/7/52 unless they're sleeping while I commute with them 🤷‍♂️
  
  (I also run Linux, BSD, and macOS.)
  
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