My hot take after taking a look over the site is that I don't feel like I came away knowing what I need to know to create a PC who lives in that world. That there might be a place in RL with a similar name is totally meaningless to me, because suspension of disbelief is sort of part of this whole thing?
@Auspice Ours are fully adjustable, which is just so super snazzy. What it really means is I spend generously 25% of my work life adjusting the damned things because they're never quite perfectly right.
I don't have a pic of the work setup, but my desk has adjustable arm mounts that hold the monitors wherever you want them. I have them meet over my laptop screen as a unified continuous field, because anything else is clearly wrong.
@Auspice I don't need three monitors for every single thing I do, but when I do need them, damn is it nice to have them. I like training my eyebrains to always look to the laptop as main; it'll never fail contextually.
At work I put my laptop on a dock and it becomes my main monitor, with two additional monitors added on. At home the work laptop gets plugged into one extra screen, its screen remaining the main, and I'll have my personal computer also running on the desk. All the screens, all the computers.
@Ganymede It's great for my purposes, which here are generating distinct tasks, tracking them through various processes, saving all sorts of data, conversations, and attachments around them, and then surfacing it all on a live dashboard. I'm impressed with what it can do, even if I'm frequently banging my head at how I have to do it.
@Ganymede It works much like it was made 20 years ago, in some ways. Which is what makes it so satisfying to wrestle it into the output I need.
@Sunny We have a troubled relationship at times. Trying to get it to just DO the THING that Excel would do sometimes is a misery. I have to admit, it does some things very well. Probably my favorite thing about it bar-none is the ability to look at my tracker as Kanban cards, a Gantt chart, or a grid spreadsheet at any given moment based on the view I need for my workflow right now. Without crashing files around and losing shit, at that.
Currently making Smartsheet my bitch. I've been using it for the heft of my project management tracking for a while now, and just recently cracked the code on pivoting all of my mined data and whatnots out into tables and graphs that live on an always-on dash.
This is my favorite part of any new project: building out new models or thrashing old ones into useful tables, with new ideas and pieces I'm learning as I need them. Wrapping my head around SUMIFS and COUNTIFS and all these nested functions to bring me back counts within date ranges matching criteria and all this stuff and it feels like actual magic when the shit works.
Moreover it's a clutch piece of work to deliver on, and it's reasonable that I might cinch the promotion I've been angling at for a long while now by overdelivering against expectations here -- which I am already doing. So I'm in my zone, and extremely pleased with myself for once.
You ain't shit, Smartsheet. Ya basic.
I have to report that I made an honest attempt to read through the entire core rulebook. Somewhere around the Order of the Sides, I realized 'funny' had been replaced completely by 'cringey'.
This would be hilarious and a lot of fun to do. Set the tone light and/or ironically heavy and keep the humor tongue-in-cheek.
