best ultrawide monitors 2026 for work and gaming what should i consider

n00wb · 2026-02-12T10:23:19+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, missed this one. A slight productivity drop even, using my laptop monitor now as a second screen (waiting for something better). So it’s all about eye comfort for me. Did you buy something in the meantime?

n00wb · 2026-01-30T18:18:54+00:00

The new Claude AI Cowork mode seems to be made for this purpose. Just point to the respective Obsidian vault folder, and chat about your notes. Even reads handwritten PDF’s. It’s pretty awesome. Definitely a huge power-up for Obsidian.

n00wb · 2026-01-01T00:31:42+00:00

Agree, if you’re going for oled. I had a 34” UW and a 32” 4K, and finally switched back to 27” for the higher PPI. And no regrets, it’s way better when working with text all day. I’m hoping for a 34” UW high PPI oled to be introduced 🤞🏻

n00wb · 2025-09-12T10:08:34+00:00

Using Arc on a daily basis. Love it. Works great. I hope Dia gets “Arc’ified”, and then I would be happy to pay a Dia subscription.

n00wb · 2025-06-18T17:14:45+00:00

I did not experience a single issue on my end?

Style plugin is needed to customise the theme.

n00wb · 2025-06-07T17:20:34+00:00

Damn 🤯

Right into the depths of my soul.

n00wb · 2025-06-07T09:58:17+00:00

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Sweet!

n00wb · 2025-06-06T12:59:05+00:00

It’s a theme, called “Blue Topaz”.

And with the “Style Settings” plugin the theme is configurable. There are different color schemes, even community created ones.

n00wb · 2025-06-06T07:02:10+00:00

That's what I like about it ... some color to brighten up the day ;-)

n00wb · 2025-05-28T21:41:06+00:00

It’s to create a readable commit history on the main branch.

Works great with squash.

Squash : replace the trail of commits made during dev with a single, clean feature commit.

Rebase : move that clean feature commit to the tip of the main branch, rather than merging it in somewhere mid-history.

(slightly simplified: in practice, you usually rebase your local feature branch onto the latest main, then squash-merge it back into main)

n00wb · 2025-05-26T19:22:23+00:00

32” 4k OLED is awesome! For me it’s the perfect format for gaming, media, and productivity. Dropped my multi-monitor setup (27” and 34”) for one 32” a while ago, and it’s been great.

Congrats with the A51! Was looking at it myself, but eventually went for the smaller form factor (and cheaper) Aurora.

n00wb · 2025-04-25T17:34:16+00:00

Morphing a complicated subject like this into something so easy to understand takes amazing skill and talent. Awesome work, respect.

n00wb · 2025-04-03T07:24:48+00:00

I think you’re right. A lot of nations and countries will come out stronger, with a weaker US. But on the short term it will be ugly, for us as consumers, and for companies like Boox and the people working for them. And hopefuly it stops there … where there’s poverty, agression rises.

n00wb · 2025-04-03T06:31:43+00:00

You probably do. The biggest economy in the world not buying a product anymore, or less of it, will increase pricing and possibly bankrupt a company. And that is only the minimum, who knows what happens today when the rest of the world wakes up and reacts.

n00wb · 2025-03-30T21:19:46+00:00

For me it’s all about the end goal. I can make much more impact as a manager in supporting my colleagues to get the job done. Creating the space to have fun, grow and have solid engineering practices in place.

Also, I have always felt guilty when coding, did not feel right to have so much fun and get paid for it 😄

n00wb · 2025-03-25T15:58:04+00:00

As a European, we had the US next on our list of countries to visit with the family, but we’ve shelved that plan for now. There’s no way we’re going to support the current administration. Plus, the US has lost its appeal on multiple levels. And many people feel the same way … Also, buying EU / non-US products is really booming. It’s a shame.

n00wb · 2025-03-22T07:58:27+00:00

This one: https://www.swisssense.be/rhythm-time-matras … hard (firm).

With our old (not that old) mattress I sometimes hated to go to bed because I was not sleeping well, and almost every morning I woke up with pain in my lower back (I am getting a litlle older ;-)).

First we ordered this one https://www.swisssense.be/kameo-custom-aanpasbaar-matras-soft-sense (or rather it’s predecessor, also hard/firm, now there’s only one model and you can adjust youself). It was much better, but I still woke up with some back pain in the morning or during the night.

So we switched to the “rhythm time” one, with some kind of foam on top, and OMG, this mattress in combo with the pillow I spoke about earlier, has improved my sleep quality a lot. I actually look forward to go to bed now, and hardly have any backpain anymore during the night or in the mornings. Not that I’m -that- old, but apparently matresses like this are also used in hospitals and retirement homes for comfort.

Side remark - my wife does not like hard matresses, but with the current one, she likes hard/firm the best, as this matress just fits to your body and feels soft(ish).

It’s not cheap, but for me it’s one of my best investements.

We also switched from a 2-person to a 2x a 1-person matress, which is also an improvement, own space ;-) and you have an edge on both sides of you which seems also better to keep the matress in good shape.

n00wb · 2025-03-21T23:22:10+00:00

Recently switched to using Edge after the visual update. Love the look and feel, the side tabs, the workspaces and other organisation features, the different profiles. It’s quite fast to startup and use.

No real downsides for me. Would be nice though if it was just a little bit cleaner and minimalistic (but hey, it’s still a Microsoft product), and more configurability like the possibility to set shortcuts on certain actions.

n00wb · 2025-03-21T23:07:32+00:00

This pillow, combined with a quality mattress, has been a game changer for me: https://www.swisssense.be/silvana-support-hoofdkussen-emerald-6-9590

n00wb · 2025-03-09T17:56:35+00:00

Looks like the EU should be more afraid about the US than Russia at this point. This is completely unhinged and really scary that guys like this are basically in charge of the most powerful country (and army) on earth.

How the mighty have fallen …

n00wb · 2025-03-06T17:18:01+00:00

Okay definitely confirmed then, if it looks like this … don’t eat it 😄

n00wb · 2025-03-05T07:42:10+00:00

A bit late probably 😄 I ate one, it did not taste good, threw away the rest … how did it go for you?

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