Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing::A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.
Has science gone too far?
Has science gone too far?
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.“
Hasn’t science not gone too far enough already?
I tried this but all my icons kept tumbling to the bottom-left.
I’m starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.
It’s pretty cool to have that as an option, but good lord it looks annoying to use that monitor arrangement.
You say that now, but just imagine you’ve slept wrong and kinked your neck but still have to get things done. Now you can set the display to 22 degree rotation but leave the monitor horizontal. Voila, the day is saved!
What’s the over/under on someone hooking an Arduino to an accelerometer on top of a monitor to automatically keep the display level?
Dual monitor in diagonal mode to get a perfect diamond orientation!
…I’m sure there’s some arcade game that plays on some awkward display that’s designed to be a diamond or even diagonal…
Well, arcade machines used CRT displays. Not sure someone was crazy enough to build cabinets in which you’d have to rig those heavy bastards so they rest on a corner.
Are you judging my orientation?
LGBTQIA+!=/90
no longer need to worry about that pesky 80-column limit
Um… What? Even a 13" laptop fits more than three times that many characters.
It’s a text mode joke
I like the monitor to be turned in such a creative way, but why have they turned the windows and the text back to the boring old horizontal/vertical?
:-)
I’m not sure how joking you are, but of course, that can be achieved by using a horizontal resolution and just angling the monitor diagonally
Always as much as possible. What else is there.
Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?
Get me a second, horizontal screen in front of it and it might just be a moiré!
Have fun with screen tearing
Can we now have a 22 degree desk?
The developer has given up on “boring” straight monitors… Yeah ok. :)
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ITT no one seems to realize it’s a joke.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 months ago
It’s hard to tell in a world where people still use emacs.
ik5pvx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey now!
SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why the drive by? elispOS is a perfectly valid operating system. It even has a built in editor!
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
By making a task more complex than it needs to be, people can trick themselves into believing they are performing more efficiently.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 months ago
Screen orientation is no laughing matter!
overzeetop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Back in my day there were just two orientations. All these variations are…unnatural. Your screen came out of the box in landscape or portrait, and I don’t believe in any of this “diagonal” nonsense.