Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Philip J. Hollenback @philiph@hachyderm.io

1/20/2026, 5:52:48 PM

Public

I have a recent MacBook that I connect to a monitor at work and one at home. The monitors are the same model of Lenovo and the computer thinks they are the same monitor. At home the monitor is beside my laptop and at work it's above. Thus each time I move my laptop I have to open display settings and tell the laptop to position the monitor correctly.

Surely there's a unique identifier that the monitor supplies that my laptop could use to differentiate between them? Or is this not true?

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