Too bad the desk space sucks…

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Caption: Picture of a giant display in a big event/concert space. The display shows a terminal with the output from hyfetch. End caption

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Anyways here’s the real setup that was controlling that big ass screen

Also sorry if the text formatting is messed up (I am posting from mobile)

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    11 hours ago

    Nice. It looks like your led has a little hat!

    Did you manage to get Linux to output the native resolution of the screen?

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      The native resolution of that thing was something along the lines of 1500x1000, but the scaler only accepted 1920x1080, and 1920x1200. Both resolutions had the same top and bottom bars so we assumed something got disconnected during transit, and we didn’t bother fixing it as all content was in 16:9 anyways.

      For the pictures with hyfetch I just captured the display of the laptop in obs and forwarded it to the big screen as that was more convenient than fiddling with the terminal window on a screen I couldn’t see from laptop’s position.

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        10 hours ago

        Sounds like they had their scaler set up to squash everything. Not the best for content, but the best for accepting whatever people will throw at it. Can’t say I’m a fan of not giving you all the pixels you paid for, though!

        I miss AV sometimes.

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          We had the display to ourselves, so we dug around in the settings of the scaler but couldn’t find anything that might set the resolution or aspect ratio. The goal was to keep this thing running for the show so we didn’t want to break anything by messing up the settings.

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      I wonder how that bug happens from a programming standpoint. Despite that bug, it didn’t crash or misbehave during the entire 2 day show, so I’m happy.

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      Omg noone noticed that hahahaha. I didn’t design the graphic, but I’ll let the guy know to fix the spelling. I guess we’re all dyslexic…

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        23 hours ago

        It’s such an easy one to misspell. I was a graphic artist for years and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this error. Glad I could help! Lmao.

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          Now that I think about it, I do remember the organizer sitting down at his iMac, making that graphic, someone approach him and point out the spelling mistake, him fixing it, and then presumably forgetting to save the modified file before handing back my usb drive with more assets for the show. It’s kind of funny how we had 1200 athletes, thousands of staff members and noone pointed out the spelling mistake once it was on the big screen. Thankfully this graphic was only used to tell the attending guests that pre pre orders are available for the 2025 show during the end of this one.

          My memory is a bit foggy as today was a pretty stressful day, and about 500-600mg of caffeine went trough my system during the 12h show…

          Edit: i looked at the caffeine contents of the energy drinks I drank. My estimate was 102mg per can, but the flavourful I drank the most had 180mg, and I only drank one can that had 102mg. That puts the total caffeine amount for the 12h period of about 900-1002mg. How the fuck am I still alive?

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      I’d say it was “for stability”, but the truth is that I forgot to update

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, that couch isn’t more than 3 meters, probably 2.5. I’d say it’s a 7 meter wide display.

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      We leased the display for 3 days, and apparently it cost us the equivalent of 5k USD

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        24 hours ago

        Now that doesn’t sound like something even a robber would consider a decent deal. I guess bro is a part of a black organ market then.

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          23 hours ago

          Well, we do have to get the money somehow…

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      14 hours ago

      Wodla is an event agency that organizes crossfit competitions in Norway and Sweden. Nocco is a company that makes sports drinks with caffeine/vitamins.

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      It’s essentially an led screen where each pixel is it’s own rgb led. At 0.5% brightness it was still bright enough to over expose my phone camera so I had to dial it down in post.