Work became more comfortable. But here is a story about being scolded by an AI at the end.
Since I started writing my blog, I had always been working at my home computer space.
I would place my MacBook in front of my home desktop computer.
Thinking about it now, it was quite a strange sight.
I didn't even know the term "dual monitor".
What could possibly be convenient about having two screens?
Doesn't it just mean there's more to look at?
That's what I used to think.
However, as I continued blogging, I kept seeing people say that "dual monitors are convenient."
I started to get a little curious.
That said, I wasn't sure about buying a new monitor.
I didn't know which one to choose, and it would cost money.
One day, while I was thinking about that,
Wait a minute.
I hardly ever use my home desktop computer.
And that monitor.
It made my desk feel cramped, and I had always thought it was in the way.
Could it be that I can use this monitor?
When I asked my husband,
He said, "You can use it if you buy the cable."
And that was that.
If that was the case, you should have told me sooner! (Though I didn't ask.)
I don't understand anything about terminals, cords, or things like that.
So, I had someone buy only the necessary cords for me.
It's probably faster and safer than looking it up myself.
I tried connecting it.
I was surprised.
The screen is huge. The text is huge, too.
Well, obviously. If the screen gets bigger, the text gets bigger too.
I had convinced myself that it was unavoidable for the text on a laptop to be small. I've lived for 50 years, but I didn't know that if the screen got bigger, the text would get bigger too. (That's not true.) I thought it was unavoidable that the text was hard to see because of presbyopia.
I'm moved.
And one more thing.
Until now, every time I compared documents,
Minimize.
Open another file.
Go back again.
Minimize again.
I had been repeating this over and over.
But once I switched to a dual monitor, I could just leave it on the other side.
Wait, that's it?
It's just that, but my work is so much easier.
Why have I been working with my laptop placed in front of my monitor all this time?
I wish I had realized it sooner.
……or so I thought.
Because things became more convenient, I keep opening Google search tabs.
I look up this.
I look up that.
Before I knew it, I was surrounded by tabs.
And my MacBook started running slower and slower.
"Why is it so slow?"
I asked the AI.
The answer that came back was,
"The cause is that you have too many tabs open."
The culprit was me.
It seems that when things become convenient, people tend to get carried away.