Mastodawn

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

MWUAHAHAHAHA! Through necromancy m technomancy, and other dark arts I have all 5 displays working off of the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (heretofore I will refer to as the 'Legion 7' because ain't nobody got time for all that typing [and inevitable typos].) That's:

The in-built display, the two primary displayport displays, the two tertiary displayport displays and the sole HDMI display that has my HomeAssistant dashboard.

Got all my network drives mounted. Physical ones tomorrow. I am slowly getting towards 'moved out' of the desktop. Final step is to clone the main drive -- secondary is fine as is -- and swap the NVMe drives into the laptop (the Legion 7 came with 2x1TB, my desktop has 2x4TB. Because mere mortals could actually buy those back then....

💀 𝓕airchild 💀

I am incredibly pleased with this (and by this I mean getting all 5 display working on the Legion Pro 7).
And yes my desk is an absolute wreck. In my defense I keep pulling wires and shit out. Later in the week my job is to pull everything out and redo all the wiring. I also need to move some shit, I can't get to the tools that are behind the laptop now. But the external drives in tbolt dock will go there.

PS - I got so excited that all of them work that I forgot to rotate the orientation on the two tertiary displays.

Dan Sugalski Mar 18

@tankgrrl this looks like the cockpit of a cobbled-together space ship from a low budget SFmovie and… that’s phenomenally cool.

FeloniousPunk Mar 18

@tankgrrl Holy shit, you are not fuckin around my friend. #lifeGoals

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@FeloniousPunk I work in HPC and work from home 99.5% of the time. But also am huge nerd. 🤓

FeloniousPunk Mar 18

@tankgrrl I work from home too but DAMN GIRL! I’m gonna have to up my game

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@FeloniousPunk In my defense, work bought two of them (the tertiary).

FeloniousPunk Mar 18

@tankgrrl How the heck are you driving all that from the laptop?

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@FeloniousPunk Necromancy.

Thunderbolt dock handles 2 displayport and 1 HDMI (can hanldle 2 HDMI but I only need 1), the 2 tertiary displays are on a thunderbolt 3 displayport adapter like this:

https://tripplite.eaton.com/thunderbolt-3-to-dual-displayport-adapter-4k-5k-60hz-male-to-2x-female-4-4-4-silver~MTB3002DP

Thunderbolt 3 to Dual DisplayPort Adapter - 4K/5K, 60 Hz | Eaton

Now you can watch 4K video on two DisplayPort monitors at the same time. Or 5K video on one! This Thunderbolt 3 adapter works with Mac and Windows notebooks.

Eaton Website

FeloniousPunk Mar 18

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@FeloniousPunk BTW, in my defense, my friend Mitch says he currently has, counting laptop screens, 20. heh

But he's always been like that. He's a programmer and one of those 'serial entrepreneur' guys.

FeloniousPunk Mar 18

@tankgrrl Mitch... Are they Mitch from Real Genius? 😆

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@FeloniousPunk heh Might as well be.

It started innocently enough, then he-remodeled, then he moved into a bigger house. This is v2 before he moved. http://www.biscade.com/office/

office faq

Chris Zappa Mar 18

@tankgrrl Very cool! The only thing that keeps running through my mind as I look at this is: "With great power comes great responsibility."

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 18

@chriszappa Yeah... I think about my excess a lot. But once I move off the desktop completely, I will reduce my power usage by 200 watts.

26 Peachez Mar 18

@tankgrrl brava!

Matt Godden Mar 18