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Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing (www.tomshardware.com)
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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.

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago

ITT no one seems to realize it’s a joke.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 94 points 2 years ago

It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 87 points 2 years ago

It's hard to tell in a world where people still use emacs.

[-] SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Why the drive by? elispOS is a perfectly valid operating system. It even has a built in editor!

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 12 points 2 years ago

Screen orientation is no laughing matter!

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago

The original blog post (significantly more informative and shorter than the article): https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/

[-] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh shit xssfox! She once blasted my code on Twitter 🤣

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

It also mentions that the 22 degrees is based on your monitor and that was what they settled on, and even goes on to provide a handy calculator to figure out your own best angle.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

Has science gone too far?

[-] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 18 points 2 years ago

Has science gone too far?

Science isn't about why, it's about why not.

[-] RIP_Apollo@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.“

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Hasn't science not gone too far enough already?

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

I tried this but all my icons kept tumbling to the bottom-left.

[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

I'm starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

It's pretty cool to have that as an option, but good lord it looks annoying to use that monitor arrangement.

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What's the over/under on someone hooking an Arduino to an accelerometer on top of a monitor to automatically keep the display level? One week?

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

You're looking at it wrong. You don't want to attach the gyroscope to the monitor, you want to attach it to your head

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

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...

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Point the CRT upwards at a series of mirrors which display on a diagonal screen! Lmao

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

Now make the mirrors controllable and let the game do crazy optic full screen rotations, panning and zooming.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Are you judging my orientation?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

LGBTQIA+!=/90

Edit: maybe LGBTQIA+mod90!=0 is better

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

It's a text mode joke

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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?

:-)

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Always as much as possible. What else is there.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Get me a second, horizontal screen in front of it and it might just be a moiré!

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Can we now have a 22 degree desk?

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

The developer has given up on "boring" straight monitors.. Yeah ok. :)

[-] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Have fun with screen tearing

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