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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 111 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 93 points 10 months ago

It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 87 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] kwozyman@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Abird1620@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago
[–] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Get your game on

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Screen orientation is no laughing matter!

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 10 points 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.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months 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 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Has science gone too far?

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

[–] RIP_Apollo@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Hasn't science not gone too far enough already?

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

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

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 months ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 7 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you judging my orientation?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

LGBTQIA+!=/90

Edit: maybe LGBTQIA+mod90!=0 is better

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 14 points 10 months ago

It's a text mode joke

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago

Always as much as possible. What else is there.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

Can we now have a 22 degree desk?

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] 1984 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Have fun with screen tearing