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noduermelast Wednesday at 5:49 AM4 repliesview on HN

I've been a laptop purist most of my life, and prefer to work outside my house / office. Only recently I got a Big Monitor™ for a mini pc. It's really messed with my head. Now when I look at my 15" laptop everything looks incredibly small. Not just that, but the scroll direction is opposite on the pc, so if I'm working side by side I find myself accidentally scrolling each one backwards, or actually typing into the wrong keyboard. Somehow I survived this long with just laptop screens and I don't think it's a mistake that my focus was preserved through that.


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plasma_beamyesterday at 3:47 PM

Similarly, laptop purist for the past 25 years. I so much prefer the focus of one thing on my screen at a time, and toggling between apps without having to shift eyes on a large monitor. I also like to pick up and work from starbucks or wherever. I feel like we are in the minority overall but I do know some like us.

atsaloliyesterday at 3:46 PM

You can configure the scroll direction on the Mac. So you can have them both go the same way.

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SoftTalkeryesterday at 4:04 PM

I always reverse the scroll direction on trackpads.