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Mini Monitor Recommendations (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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I’m looking for a small 7” or 8” computer monitor to keep on my desk to display Discord and other things without taking up real estate on my main monitor. Ideally something cheap and therefore not a touchscreen. There’s tons of options online but I’d like to get some recommendations from people who have a similar product and enjoy it.

Something similar in shape and size as the StreamDeck XL would be great. Obviously just a screen though.

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[–] loops@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't personally tried them, but there are a lot of monitors on Amazon that are meant for Raspberry-Pi's. I was looking at them myself but I instead decided to get an old monitor for free off of Freecycle. I made a post there and a bunch of people offered a bunch of old ones they weren't using any more (like the ubiquitous Samsung 720N).

Also, I already have a second monitor but it's too narrow for discord; as in the window can't be made small enough. Maybe it's just a GNOME thing, but I'm not sure discord will 'fit' on those small screens.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good idea. I was leaning heavily towards those raspberry pi monitors.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Ive used those, they all seem to be pretty similar in hardware and work fine. Might be out of the range of scaling things to a "normal" size with built in OS scaling settings, but still usable. I was expecting the color to be terrible, but in my experience it's fine.