Must be a new addition. I haven’t seen it either until now.
Comment on xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend
cron@feddit.de 10 months ago
I just noticed this info in the xkcd website for the first time:
xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.
Randall is such a genius.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 10 months ago
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It’s been there for a while, just hard to spot. From doing a binary search with web.archive.org, it seems it was added on October 5th, 2016 web.archive.org/web/20161005090723/…/xkcd.com/
kurwa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Boat Mode needs to be a thing, I don’t know what it does but I want it.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.
Funwayguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’d be like the phone equivalent of Linux’s diagonal monitor orientation, only now the touch screen experience is beyond fucked.
Strangely enough this might work for round smart watches though.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, now I want boat mode too!
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
2024,make it happen!
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
In my experience, the human form of “Boat Mode” means drunk. A drunk person with a wobbly mobile device sounds like sad fail tiktok content.
sgt_hulka@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Brilliant! I’d use that as Carsick Mode myself. Maybe then I could read a map in the passenger seat without hurling into the driver’s lap.