There's a standard recommendation to periodically look away from your monitor and focus on something farther away for a few moments because of mumble mumble eye

There's a standard recommendation to periodically look away from your monitor and focus on something farther away for a few moments because of mumble mumble eye strain mumble reasons. I don't know if a monitor farther away would alleviate this. There are differences, because even if it is the same visual angle you are focusing on something farther away. (For a quick example, sit in front of a window, ideally a dirty one, and shift your focus from a point on the window to the scene behind, back and forth, while still looking in the same direction.)