Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by markrages on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:27PM (#23554099)

Coronavirus has robbed me of one of my favorite productivity hacks, which is coding on old Thinkpad with 4:3 ratio display, at a coffeeshop or library with Internet turned off. No distractions, no multitasking, just pure focus on a problem.

I miss it.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by glouwbug on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:47PM (#23558201)

My friend, when I moved into my new apartment I went without WiFi for 2 years and did nothing but code on my T43. In that time I managed to rewrite (a variant of) Age of Empires 2.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by clarry on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:39AM (#23562096)

> (a variant of) Age of Empires 2.

What's this?

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by glouwbug on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:45PM (#23564923)

https://github.com/glouw/openempires

I chip away at it now every other night. It's namely a simple multiplayer client. Britons is the only civ.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by alexktz on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:02AM (#23562245)

My home internet went out yesterday (I WFH full-time).

“No big deal”, I thought. I’ll just go to Sta... Dammit COVID!

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by platz on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:39PM (#23554262)

Which old thinkpad?

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by phaus on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:13PM (#23555480)

With a 4:3 ratio, probably a T60 or a T61.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by markrages on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:11PM (#23556132)

Right on. T61, with one of the best thinkpad keyboards ever.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by flanker on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:34PM (#23558866)

Those keypads, you could throw anything to them and they would still give you that travel, click and satisfaction.

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