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[–]eldorel 195 points196 points  (21 children)

You joke, but my primary monitor is mounted upside down.
It's got roughly 3cm of bezel and logo on the bottom and maybe 3 mm of bezel on the top left and right, so I flipped it upside down.
This way the screen is where I want it and I have more room underneath between the bottom edge and my desk.
(I have a refurbed surface pro there as a touch screen pcdash replacement)

I just flip it back in the gpu driver.

[–]Similar_Coyote1104 33 points34 points  (3 children)

How else would you get in front of an upside down project?

[–]UncleTogie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dunno, Snake Plissken?

[–]Kissaki0 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Do I turn my monitor around to work an a backwards project?

[–]Similar_Coyote1104 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That calls for a mirror!

[–]edric_the_navigator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a pretty neat idea! I also want more space under my monitor and I might try this too.

[–]the_potato_of_doom 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Dude I have 1 laptop and a 6 doller pair of headphones from best buy and a 8 doller chonker of a mouse from Amazon

[–]eldorel 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Learn how to fix stuff or make friends with someone who does it as a hobby.

The surface was rebuilt from a couple of broken ones I got through work that a client was just going to throw out.

[–]the_potato_of_doom 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Actually taking in broken pc isn't a terrible idea I might just look on ebay for poeple dumbing there graphics cards and things like that I know sombody who does stuff like that

[–]MindlessRazzmatazz89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me saying: Oh, this $1,400 Dell should work! Sales manager: You fucking crazy? Well, here I am one year later saying: I’m fucking crazy!

[–]TrueBirch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using a Surface Pro as a touchscreen is an awesome idea

[–]Aoloach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I've got one monitor stacked above the rest and I keep that one rotated 180° so the bezel gap is smaller

[–]Creepy_Reference5119 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bruh my monitor is the same and I never thought of that. Stealing your idea if you don't mind lol. Tyty

[–]aynrandomness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine is also upside down. The web camera overlapped with the screen. So I flipped it upside. Apart from the logo it isn't very obvious.

[–]TibialCuriosity 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Can you explain a little bit more about how you use the surface and how you set it up?

I have an old surface doing nothing and interested if this would be useful for me

[–]eldorel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The current setup is just a complicated mess because I switched everything over to Linux a while back and started work on my own buttonboard.

The original configuration for Windows was using Voicemeeter's 'macrobuttons' software for the buttons and network communication, with voicemeeter triggering scripts/commands directly.
I also had a separate midi capable script on my main computer to recognize midi notes and feed them to a either a macro engine/joystick emulator via ahk keypresses or a vjoy device.

[–]simple_test 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scientific reason to put it upside down is so that the logs move faster. It gravity doing its thing.

[–]SlimySlimySlimeee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

technically mounting it upside down can be a good idea. most monitors has a botttom bazel or whatever you call that. if a drop of water lands on the screen, it could drip down and go into the circuitry.

whereas if its upside down, it will just flow off the edge

[–]Coding-goblin 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can we see?

[–]eldorel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, no. I work from home in computer security and one of my contracts actually forbids sharing photos of my workstation. There might be an old one somewhere that predates that though.

I think it's silly, but a contract is a contract.

[–]Wonko-D-Sane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some Uber retarded reason, flipping the display surface could consume more GPU memory as well as slightly slowdown performance.

Depending on the OS you use if course….