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f936eeb9 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @1664fdbd Discovery and Nedbank are the same. I HATE small screens with ONE display. I also can't see why 2FA with either device or authenticator app is not good enough. They seem to realise SMS is not so good, but now insist on mobile apps. Phones get lost or left behind...

Discovery's trick is you can only add virtual cards in the mobile app.
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97e0b9f6 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @771c7916 I know the feeling. Mobile is good in a pinch, but it will never ever be my first choice for anything. Why would you pick up your phone to check social media (for example) when you're literally sitting at your PC, in front of your big monitor, keyboard, and mouse? ;-)

The only thing is, I can't work with more than one monitor. I've tried a few times, but my problem is -- probably because of my tunnel vision -- I keep losing the mouse. First it's on this screen, then 30 seconds later when I look for it it's on THAT screen. And tapping CTRL doesn't help, because yes, it pulses that target thing over it, but since it's on the other monitor, I can't see that, either.

I use a laptop for work, but it sits closed on the corner of my desk all day, so it may as well be a desktop. In fact, I think for my next "Work PC", I'm going to just buy one really beastly desktop and run separate profiles for work and home use.

With the price of high-spec laptops these days (and as developers, we need high spec machines; 8GB of RAM doesn't cut it, and even 16GB is the bare minimum), if I spent the same kind of money on a desktop I'd get two or three times as much RAM, processing power, and GPU. :P
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f936eeb9 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @1664fdbd yes I also avoid mobile. In my case I like 3 monitors, and even at the two offices I worked at, I always had an additional monitor plugged in.

Can maybe try changing the mouse cursor too, to something bigger, different colour, acceleration, etc.

I just prefer to glance at something that is open, next to what I'm typing into. My mind seems to wipe itself when alt-tabbing between windows overlaying each other (which is why my terminal screen is transparent).