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Go to https://www.spacedesk.net/. Install the driver on your computer.

Go to your phone or other device you want to use as a second display. Install the app on your device.

You can then go to your windows settings and extend your display to your device.

On the device app you can set a custom resolution.

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Tracks over to Tapatalk on my iPad to read this thread....tracks back to my MacBook and carry on with life as usual.

We been having it.
 
newby_investor said:
Mac users need to buy third-party apps just to do simple things like seeing the data rate (i.e. in MB/s) of a file copy.

Glass houses and all that.
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Why does it matter?

It’s an utterly frivolous function that constantly bounces up and down and is utterly meaningless in its purpose.

And if you care that much for it there are many ways to do it without any third party tools.
 
backstreetboy said:
Activity monitor works fine. I had to buy an app for better multi monitor support though.
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Better how?

One thing I love about MacOS is that it remember my multiple monitors down to the difference between the one at home and the one at work and puts my windows back where they were last even with my MacBook on different sides.

Can’t think what else you could need.

Now if you said window management that’s a different story. They’ve cocked that up for anyone who isn’t obsessed with fullscreen everything.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Better how?

One thing I love about MacOS is that it remember my multiple monitors down to the difference between the one at home and the one at work and puts my windows back where they were last even with my MacBook on different sides.

Can’t think what else you could need.

Now if you said window management that’s a different story. They’ve cocked that up for anyone who isn’t obsessed with fullscreen everything.
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Just switching one off with a keyboard shortcut and not having to muck about with the brightness. Lol the fullscreen everything I'm slowly getting used to.
 
backstreetboy said:
Just switching one off with a keyboard shortcut and not having to muck about with the brightness. Lol the fullscreen everything I'm slowly getting used to.
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Hmm not a keyboard shortcut sure, but could swear you can just click it off from the display icon in the menu bar.

Would need to test next week.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Why does it matter?
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SauRoNZA said:
And if you care that much for it there are many ways to do it without any third party tools.
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Every other OS does it trivially, natively, without me having to faff. But that's not the Mac way I guess, so I must be wrong.

It's a diagnostic I like to have. Particularly when one wants to check whether an expensive peripheral is working properly (such as fast storage or a fast Ethernet connector). Yeah I guess I can work it out: MacOS tells me that the 25GB file is going to be finished transferring in 2 minutes 45 seconds or whatever but then I need to go and get a calculator and work out what data rate it is. It's annoying, and it needn't be.

SauRoNZA said:
It’s an utterly frivolous function that constantly bounces up and down and is utterly meaningless in its purpose.
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This sounds exactly like a Mac user: functionality I don't personally need, therefore must be useless.

My response was to @backstreetboy who made a snarky "buy an overpriced computer and you get this functionality built in" which may be true in this particular instance, my point was that Mac users need to shell out for quite a lot of other third-party stuff for seemingly trivial functionality. Glass houses, stone throwing, etc.
 
newby_investor said:
Every other OS does it trivially, natively, without me having to faff. But that's not the Mac way I guess, so I must be wrong.

It's a diagnostic I like to have. Particularly when one wants to check whether an expensive peripheral is working properly (such as fast storage or a fast Ethernet connector). Yeah I guess I can work it out: MacOS tells me that the 25GB file is going to be finished transferring in 2 minutes 45 seconds or whatever but then I need to go and get a calculator and work out what data rate it is. It's annoying, and it needn't be.


This sounds exactly like a Mac user: functionality I don't personally need, therefore must be useless.

My response was to @backstreetboy who made a snarky "buy an overpriced computer and you get this functionality built in" which may be true in this particular instance, my point was that Mac users need to shell out for quite a lot of other third-party stuff for seemingly trivial functionality. Glass houses, stone throwing, etc.
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I wasn't being snarky at all. Played around with Spacedesk before and apart from the low resolution it'll randomly disconnect etc. Not sure if OP has a better experience.
 
RedViking said:
This thread is about an app for Windows called Spacedesk.

Noone cares if you have an apple product, that you are a vegan and that you do Crossfit with your Mother at Woolworths.

Sheep that way >>>
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My apologies for the derail.

I'm curious to know the use-case for this. To me I don't see much value to having a second, 6" screen (though I guess with a tablet it would be more useful). But perhaps there are edge cases that I haven't considered.
 
newby_investor said:
Every other OS does it trivially, natively, without me having to faff. But that's not the Mac way I guess, so I must be wrong.

It's a diagnostic I like to have. Particularly when one wants to check whether an expensive peripheral is working properly (such as fast storage or a fast Ethernet connector). Yeah I guess I can work it out: MacOS tells me that the 25GB file is going to be finished transferring in 2 minutes 45 seconds or whatever but then I need to go and get a calculator and work out what data rate it is. It's annoying, and it needn't be.


This sounds exactly like a Mac user: functionality I don't personally need, therefore must be useless.

My response was to @backstreetboy who made a snarky "buy an overpriced computer and you get this functionality built in" which may be true in this particular instance, my point was that Mac users need to shell out for quite a lot of other third-party stuff for seemingly trivial functionality. Glass houses, stone throwing, etc.
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Thing is it’s always been a lie on every other OS and ludicrously inaccurate.

I’m surprised Apple even attempts to put the time there, but at least while it’s still not perfect it’s better than the rest.

It’s a typical case of Apple only does things if it can do them well.

Not about not needing it so much as the fact it’s always wrong so why bother faking it?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Thing is it’s always been a lie on every other OS and ludicrously inaccurate.

I’m surprised Apple even attempts to put the time there, but at least while it’s still not perfect it’s better than the rest.

It’s a typical case of Apple only does things if it can do them well.

Not about not needing it so much as the fact it’s always wrong so why bother faking it?
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Estimated time to completion is often inaccurate (except in very simple cases) but instantaneous transfer rate is normally pretty good. It's quite easy to count up the bytes you've transferred, averaged over the past N seconds. Especially with sequential reads of large files such as video footage.

It's not a hard thing to do well. I've done it even with janky debug / benchmark code that I've written. For some reason Apple just seems to think you don't need it, or that it doesn't look nice on the progress bar or something.
 
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