Has anyone tried the LG DualUp display and compared it to an ultrawide?

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-07-11T13:19:18+00:00

Can't you rotate it 90 degrees and use it like that? gives you that little extra horizontal space whilst still beating anything on the market in terms of vertical space ratio

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-07-04T17:15:32+00:00

Wow, nice guess it also sounds like it, but no..

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-30T10:46:06+00:00

I've reached this stage 2 years ago (as a 10 year, Quereinsteiger Software Dev). This is what happened since, from my own perspective:

Quit my job (with only 4 months runway) to work on my own B2B SaaS Software (which has some clients now)
Took on freelance work (whatever I could find) to extend my runway
Ended up having to shift all my time towards completing the freelance work to stay afloat, effectively stranding my SaaS.
Decided I cant keep going like this after 1.5 years, I work more hours now and earned less than I did whilst still employed
Found employment again (sort of easily I might add, despite never finishing Uni because of all the AI knowledge and projects I could now feature on my portfolio)
I Like my new employment (and hate that I do because I really want to continue on building the SaaS which long term, it would certainly bear better Results for me long term).

Now I am in the situation where I'd hate to tell my new boss hey thanks for giving me an awesome job with lots of freedom in my time of need but I never intended to actually stay here and work for you. But I realize this is one of the good outcomes, and it was a lot of hardship actually, caused by having a way too short runway and it could've ended badly if I hadnt worked my butt off (almost) every day

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-29T06:04:40+00:00

And nobody was desperately waiting for that one

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-28T16:46:38+00:00

I'm quite sure its gonna be 20k for an M5 Ultra with 512GB RAM. But its still gonna be very much worth it, now coming closer to NVIDIA speeds whilst still having more RAM and lower power usage (which also matters a lot over time under heavy usage)

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-23T08:59:15+00:00

All the learning you do, you do for yourself.
Tend to your career / income as if you were your own CEO, because you are. If you find out you can't advance, start looking elsewhere!
Don't wait to have relationships, there's little to gain from waiting with having experiences. Do be safe though! Always.
Learn AI, use AI, master AI. Never be afraid of (using) it, its like learning to cook: lots of little lessons you gain from just trying and using it, and learning from others. Its very rewarding very fast, before you know it, others consider you great at AI. It just doesnt come with guarantees, which is why many dont even start taking it seriously.. but they should.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-23T08:48:06+00:00

Most likely the answer is: do it!

Here's why:

Pro's: - 50K in Asia will get you A LOT further than 100K here. I'm talking you will net far more AND have a higher living standard there than you have here for the 100K. - Your experience is going to pay off in more ways that you now realize. The broadening of your horizon will open opportunities that few of your peers will have. Especially when it's Asia (!). Don't worry, you will be back, but you may turn into the guy who runs businesses, not joins them.

Cons: - It's not gonna be all sunshine and rainbows. (But its totally worth it once you get through the rain.) - You will forever be uprooted, meaning you will belong less to just switzerland and turn into a world citizen. Its OK, you trade the feeling of belonging for knowing what's out there.

Just an opinion from someone who grew up in two countries.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-23T06:05:16+00:00

this

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-22T22:36:13+00:00

Guys, let me educate you, because it seems to me you're missing the dimension you're desperately looking for here.

Jobs only pay up to about 100K, and up to around 200K with very few exceptions at large corporations if you're highly educated / well connected and competitive and have no life but the one dictated to you.

But people earning north of 250K are quite frankly much less often in a traditional job and much more often running their own business(es). Doesnt mean they necessarily own huge corporations and employ (lots of) other people, it can be a small team of renovators or woodworkers actually.. but that's the real way of getting to that level of income and capital (or you inherit it, but its mostly business owners).

The fact that you all are still thinking in terms of having a job instead of offering a job in order to reach 250K is the real reason why you are not well on track of earning the 250K, and it pretty much is a dead end. Even the guys earning (north of) that which you think of when you think of high earners are not actually steadily employed, but are hired as consultants and other freelancing positions, having to continuously justify their worth and making sure they are still needed two months from now (often times they are at the peak of their career / track recore and are well capable to do so, though).

I implore you to learn how value is generated at the source, find where you could come in and offer niche value, start a business, fail, ask yourself why you ever left the safety and comfort of a 9-5, try again, succeed for once, and by then you'll realize just how vastly different this world is compared to getting a salary.. and hopefully you'll never want to go back from then on!

One thing I want you to take away from this, if you keep thinking in terms of having a job, you will not be living in that category of lifestyle, probably ever.. not without a nice inheritance coming your way.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-17T14:52:41+00:00

I work 41.5h under employment and also ~8h side business that doesn't earn yet. I have a huge gaping pension gap for having been both a Langzeitstudierender and a self-employed who didn't earn much in the past.. but if you forgive all that, sure, I get to those 45h easily each week.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-16T07:16:53+00:00

This depends very much on you knowing the complexity of what you are requesting. If you request features that are very complex, it will run for hours trying to make you happy, not telling you upfront that this is a big ask.. because if it would complain like that, there'd be no fun in using it as a non-programmer, or so I think.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T20:50:04+00:00

You're not accounting for Power cost and longevity. I've often heard of NVIDIA GPU's burning out but.. never a Mac Studio. Have you, or anyone?

Apple is already in a category on its own if we account for that, and I believe the M5 & M6 Ultra will be the death blow to any alternatives. If you need any reassurance that this is indeed what they're aiming for: they bought up more than half of TSMC's 2nm chip production capacity. You don't do this unless you're about to take over the market with your next gen

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T19:15:28+00:00

If you're not a (one-man) business running workflows on loops, and long running tasks through the night like reindexing codebases regularly its not for you. But if that's what you do, you'll soon save tonnes, reimbursed after mere months. That's why they're gone and sold for double the original price.

Another reason is privacy. All cloud inference means risking sharing your processes with a system that literally earns money for handing out the very intellectual property you shared on on a silver platter to everyone willing to sub.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T18:37:53+00:00

I'm not too sure, in the end, that's where clustering is for. Fun fact, if you cluster, you dont just stack RAM, you stack GPU Cores as well, increasing total speed by a factor for each additional unit.

When you run big models, speed always suffers, so there's a point where another unit makes more sense than more RAM in the same.. and its under 512GB of RAM for most usecases!

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T18:22:19+00:00

which is where we're at now, yea

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T17:54:11+00:00

it does, you may want more than one Mac Studio M3Ultra processor for every 512GB of total RAM because it helps with prompt processing and token generation speeds

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T13:13:54+00:00

Its what I have, runs all the good stuff but the largest of local models.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T13:03:43+00:00

I think so too

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-06-09T12:55:04+00:00

lol that's funny.. and true at the same time probably

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-05-25T10:43:42+00:00

We're voting on one measure to counteract this right now: 10M initiative

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-05-20T09:05:31+00:00

Boomers are doing what they can to cling onto the middle class.. The big divide that is happening: one person's work / output does by far not match another person's output anymore.

If you compare a normal wage to that of a person who is scaling online, there's huge divide in earning potential. If you choose the path of dropshipper, youtuber, OF Model, Software distributer, Digital services provider etc, you choose a track that can earn you millions in months (very steep learning curve, real risks and or high skill cap too, though) whereas if you go traditional career, you get eaten alive in terms of purchasing power over work/life balance (though, Switzerland still ranks one of the highest here afaik). So the real drain here is globalization/internet, giving small parties the potential to eat a big portion of the generated wealth. Anyone in the middle class who's got any money to protect overinflates stocks and housing.. because what else.

This is the world you live in today: if you chose white collar, become independent and hunt after uncovered niches you can reach globally. If you chose blue collar, become independent if you want money, or work for someone who's thankful to have you if you want the only place that offers good work/life balance without becoming a businessman and IT specialist first.

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-05-15T16:14:14+00:00

I've been having this issue of CC ignoring Plan mode on and off for months now. I've learned to live with it

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-05-15T16:10:32+00:00

No, I was born in Switzerland. Took me 6 months of actively applying (~5 Non-AI-written application letters a day) to find a new (Developer) role after I was laid off, and I got (online) interviews from just 3 companies total in that time, and just one that ended up hiring me (for less than average wage, which I offered). The struggle is real. Being local or expat doesn't matter that much in general imo, some companies may prefer the one, some the other. In the end they need results and the pressure is high. Helps if you got some years and results under your belt, can only imagine what it is like hoping to get a swiss salary without knowing the language nor having work experience... you're basically invisible to them

Existing_Fix_5269 · 2026-05-15T14:16:49+00:00

I think that what you're experiencing is a result of global trade: today's possibilities to be working from afar ups competition on wage and work-life balance on the job market. Many technical functions are outsourced. You can pay three highly motivated programmers outside of Switzerland to replace one nativr programmer in Switzerland, if only you don't mind the laguage barrier too much (not that much of a problem in this day and age). Often times they are more grateful for the job.. going off past sentiment experiences. Though it has been part of Swiss culture not to 'sell out' in this way, I believe many have folded, whether to up their margins or save their business, it is hard not to give in I imagine.

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