r/unpopularopinion

I've been a software engineer for more than 5 years now. I've worked with databases, frontend and backend services, mobile apps, games, data analysis, and much more.

Never in my life I've actually felt like my productuvity increased with the second monitor. Do you need to compare data? Just use one monitor and put them side by side. Do you need all the space in the world? Just alt+tab between apps. Since you only perceive about 10% of your vision clearly, moving your head&eyes from one monitor to other takes actually LONGER and causes distractions than using alt+tab.

This is especially worse for those who are using one additional monitor with a laptop, since their screen sizes and positions usually change so much. Your eyes need adjusting, your head moves too much.

Only thing the dual Monitor is good for is passively watching something in the second monitor, like youtube videos, Critical Role, or sitcoms while doing something else in the main screen. As you can guess, that has nothing to do with productuvity.

I also think using external keyboard and mouse for laptops is bad, unless you do not use the laptop screen.

Edit: After reading hundreds of comments, I'm sure that 90% of people who think that "YOU NEED AT LEAST 3 SCREENS" just don't know how to organize workspaces/windows/desktops and they need to configure their SCREENS as different DESKTOPS. Most of the modern operating systems allow you to just create workspaces (like different Desktops you can switch with WIN + TAB). And they are just throwing money into their problems instead of learning how to use their daily operating system.

I finally got around to starting to read the first and second Dune book after having enjoyed the movies quite a bit.

And honestly I do not get why people like the books and they are celebrated as sci fi classics.

There is so much pseudo philosophical shit that barely makes sense and just wants so desperately to be enlightened. It feels like the one time I was a trip sitter for a few friends of mine but in book form. The prose is terrible, the characters and "dialogue" are incredibly wooden, the pacing is abysmal and its honestly just so boring to read.

I like the general world building but that is kinda all of it. It honestly feels like a much worse lord of the rings if you amplify all the bad aspects of Tolkiens writing style by about 10 times while leaving out the amazing stuff.

I also do not get this obsession with the arab world that gets build into these books. Why is everything a Djihad? Why are the Fremen just Bedouine expis but in the "future".

Also Duncan Idaho??? Whenever I read that name it just pulls me out of any attempted immersion I might have had. It feels so misplaced between Bene Gesserit, Atreides and co.

More often than not, people are just incompetent. As literacy levels, plummet and nuance becomes a thing of the past it’s safer to assume someone is actually just inept than purposely acting in bad faith.

One example I often see is the conversation surrounding wives and their husbands. A lot of women will complain that their husband or boyfriend doesn’t know how to do basic things and needs a mommy. They often attribute this behavior to manipulation, but the reality is that many men are simply poorly raised. They have “boy moms” who pamper them and fail to teach them essential life skills. A lot of these men don’t even realize that they are lacking these skills. With over half of US adults reading below a sixth-grade reading level it’s not surprising.

The pain of living in Australia and it basically being a 24 hour journey (including transit, layovers, transport to and from airport etc) to anywhere in Europe or North/South America. I would love to see these places if they were a couple of hours away but the cost, hassle and discomfort of travelling that far turns me right off, even in my 30s. No idea how people even older put themselves through it.

Asia holidays for life it is…

Diarrhea is literally just not that bad at all, and barfing literally feels like a demon is at the same time possessing me and exiling itself from my body and is literally one of the worst feelings of all time.

We all talk about how awkward it is for the birthday person—freezing with a fake smile, staring at candles like an existential crisis, not knowing where to look or what to do.
But let’s be honest: it's just as painful for everyone singing. It’s literally a 30-second social penalty that everyone endures just to legally get a slice of cake. Can we all agree to ban this ritual?

Growing up, I thought having a pool was the ultimate luxury. Two years ago, i bought a house with one, and i realized how naive i was. It is just an exhausting money pit.

First off, the relentless upkeep. You spend hours skimming leaves, scrubbing algae, and balancing chemicals every single week. Ignore it for just a few days, and it turns into a murky swamp that requires expensive shock treatments to fix.

Then there’s the financial drain. Between the spike in electricity to run the pump, water bills, winterization, and replacing broken filters, you’re throwing thousands of dollars away for something you use maybe three moths a year.

Add in the constant stress over safety liability and leaks, and it’s just not worth it. Going to a community pool gives you all of the fun with zero percent of the miserable maintenance. I will never buy a house with a pool again

I have met way too many yoga enthusiasts who have little self awareness and can just be straight up rude in otherwise normal social situations. A common thread ive seen amongst the several ive known is that they outwardly express having some type of instability or drama in their lives... and have no regard for getting others mixed in to it.

To be clear im not saying they are awful *people*, just too frequently they have some super unlikeable traits. It seems like they want to project the image of "love peace, light" and "wisdom and intellect", but it quickly becomes apparent that's not really who they are.

Despite the yoga, crystals, chakras, breathing exercises, etc, these are some off-putting individuals. Its to the point where im starting to view it as a red flag when someone makes yoga a key feature of who they are or what theyre into. I know from experience that its going to be a shitshow at some point and they will almost always act oblivious to their insane behavior.

This *has* to be unpopular and legit.

So I'm a dad of three, and for the most part they are great kids. They all have their moments though and it's one of my biggest sources of anxiety.

If I'm in a restaurant or taking a flight or whatever and a kid just absolutely crashes out it makes me feel a few things;

1. solidarity. It's normal. It happens. It could happen to anyone.

2. a bit of selfish relief. *Oh thank FK it isn't mine*

3. it kinda lowers everyone's bar. There's already now a bit of noise. The difference between one meltdown and two isn't that much at this point.

I'd rather no kid ever got loud and screamed etc but shit, it's absolutely inevitable now and then as they learn to regulate and navigate the world. At least in this moment I can take the good from it, even in a weird way.

I’m currently watching The Perfect Storm and was just thinking about how actors don’t look like normal people anymore and it’s really immersion breaking.

In the opening bar scene of this movie you have George Clooney, Mark Whalberg and John C. Reilly. HUGE names. And yet, they all blend in perfectly fine and are convincingly normal.

Clooney is obvi traditionally attractive, but he doesn’t have any features that’s notably stand out.

And then I thought of peopleTimothy Chalamet and Austin Butler. They don’t LOOK like normal people. Neither does someone like Robert Pattinson. They look like models. And not in a “they’re hot” kinda way, more in an all these people have at least one or two things about their face that makes them noticeably “other” than an average person.

This is obviously inflated by modern hollywoods inability to make any piece of clothing or setting actually feel lived in for some reason, but my point stands.

Modern actors just don’t come across as a regular looking person and it’s remarkably distracting.

Im not talking about traffic lights and stop signs. Im talking about the morons that stops to let you take a left with people behind them.

They only see the posivie of helping that one guy, but ignore the time, breaks and gas of the people behind them.

If its super busy it makes sence , but if not just go and maintain momentum.

I don’t think either performance was that great. They were just kinda average, but I think that’s because of the movie and the writing. So, when I see that video of Ryan Gosling getting the Oscar and pretending to be like “wtf,” I get annoyed because, yeah we get it, it goes against the whole point of the Barbie movie, but I don’t think either one deserves the Oscar.

Edit: sorry it was the critics choice awards. I still stand by my case lmao. I don’t think either performance was particularly ground breaking and worthy of any award.

Just cause you pissed freshwater on my face as opposed to literal piss that I'm just gonna drink it. Atleast have the fucking decency to put bottle it. It makes you and your group/cause look bad and unlikeable, and makes me wish the worst for your cause out of pure sprite, you don't get to talk to me like that, no.

TL:DR : I hate how most people online talk

Every time i say something bad about my parents to someone, that someone always say "B-but they give you food and a roof to live under".

In my opinion that is not a good defense of my parents cuz giving ur kid food is the most basic responsibility for a parent, every parent does that, its not something magical.

Doing the basic responsibility for me doesnt excuse the fact that my parents have tried emotionally blackmail me, invaded my personal space multiple times, publicly embarresed me or them dismissing my feelings.

I don't really understand the push to ban Flock like Flock itself is the problem.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of more and more cameras getting added to the network either. But banning Flock doesn't actually solve the bigger problem.

The camera isn't the search. The database query is.

A camera catching your license plate while you're driving down the road is one thing. Police being able to pull up a database and basically ask "where has this car been for the last 3 months?" is a completely different thing.

And if they can do that without getting a warrant, that's the part I have a problem with.

Because let's say we ban Flock tomorrow. Cool. What happens when the same thing gets built using city traffic cameras? Or private security cameras? Or license plate readers from another company? Or whatever the next company comes up with?

We're right back where we started.

The technology isn't going away. Cameras are getting cheaper, cities are putting more of them up, and eventually somebody is going to figure out how to connect all of them together.

That's probably inevitable.

What isn't inevitable is letting police search all of that information whenever they want.

And that's why I think the warrant requirement is way more important than banning Flock.

Make them get a judge involved before they can go digging through someone's historical movements. Put limits on how long the data can be kept. Put rules around what they can search and why.

Because honestly, I think we're getting hung up on the wrong part of this.

The problem isn't that a camera saw you. The problem is that someone can potentially search everything that camera has seen about you.

Ban Flock and eventually someone else will build the same thing.

Fix the rules for how police can access the data, and it doesn't matter who's selling the cameras.

I think that the reason that many people who consider vegetarianism/veganism don’t commit to that lifestyle is because others shame them for not being the perfect example. If the point is to cut out as much animal cruelty as possible, I don’t see a problem with someone committing to the lifestyle, being mindful of their consumption of products, but having an exception or two because it makes their life easier. In the long term if more people committed to a 90% lifestyle (that wanted to, I’m not at all shaming people who eat meat at all) then in general way less harm to animals would be done. The performative advocacy and shaming of others in public platforms makes the cause look like a joke (looking at you, PETA). Thanks for your time.

The sheer number of people who I see using the restroom and then walking out without washing their hands is appalling.

We should collectively as a society call out these vectors for disease to compel them to wash their hands.

Title says it all really. I USED to eat a hotdog the same way as you'd normally expect in the UK. Open finger bun, grilled hotdog, fried onions and then ketchup and mustard. Absolutely God tier combination, easy to make, easy on the wallet, crowdpleaser. I found myself actively avoiding hotdogs because I used to get annoyed at the toppings getting all over my top lip/nose.

The brainwave only relatively recently happened, I'd say 4-5 years ago maybe? I was craving a juicy dog and that wonderful snap, so due to not wanting it all over my face I just topped my bun with onions, English mustard, and ketchup and put my sausage on top. It's so much cleaner, you get more even toppings distribution in every bite, stuff doesn't drip everywhere, and it doesn't cover your face in sauce.

This recently came to mind during a Costco run where I saw people in a full parking lot traffic jam for spots near the entrance, and it blows my mind that anyone wants to deal with that.

Pros:

• Short walk to the store
• Thats it

Cons:

• Spend time looking for a "good" spot
• Traffic jam getting to the spot
• Can't do flow through parking usually
• Tons of pedestrians you have to yield to
• Much higher risk of door dings/fender bender from someone else
• Less space to load your car
• Traffic jam leaving the spot
• Not close to the exit of the parking lot

Caveat for all of this.. it obviously it makes sense for handicapped/elderly/mobility issues people, but for everyone else it makes more sense to park out in the boonies and walk. Now don't go actually do that because I don't want all you to start ruining my parking lot boonies, but just a thought.

Edit: some people have brought up inclement weather which is actually a good point in favor of the front spots. Still doesn’t explain why everyone seems to be fighting for the front row normally

Maybe it wasn't always this way, but social media arguments and the chronically online have thoroughly bastardized the presumed good nature of this comment. It could be the most engaging, thought-provoking, genuinely helpful email / comment / analysis / step-by-step guide that's ever assisted anybody in the history of ever, but if it ends with "hope this helps" it abruptly changes the tone to one of condescension and sarcastic criticism.

Unless you are in a face-to-face scenario where you can supplement with a smile and proper inflection, for your own interests you should probably avoid using this phrase, especially in a professional setting, lest it sparks a passive-aggressive battle of painfully fake cooperation and appreciation.

Unless, of course, that's your goal.

For everyone else though, hope this helps 😊