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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 73 points 5 months ago

The steam deck does have a gyroscope for sensing rotation... Just saying.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That feature has always been annoying to me, even on phones. I always turn it off because "I" will control whether my screen rotates or not. Maybe sometimes I don't want it to rotate when I turn the phone (like when I'm viewing building plans at work and want to orient the screen with how I'm looking at the building I'm standing in).

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 40 points 5 months ago

Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

That's a stock Android feature, or at least it's on Motorola phones. Handy button.

[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

That's a stock Android feature, I have that on LineageOS

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

That rotate button is incredibly annoying. I turned off auto-rotate for a reason and the button obscures other information displayed in that corner of the screen. Wish I could turn the button off too.

[-] Rexios@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

What information is in your navigation bar?

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 2 points 5 months ago

What navbar?

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

There is no navigation bar on the Pixel 8. It uses some sort of gesture-based system instead.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

Not pixel specific, stock android. You can enable the old on-screen buttons for accessibility reasons or if you're a grumpy old sod who hates change.

[-] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

[-] Rexios@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

It’s still a navigation bar it’s just transparent. If there’s important information down there that can get blocked by it then the developers of the app did something wrong.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

It is simply the bottom of the app window. There is nothing app-specific to this behaviour, lots of apps show information in the lower 20-30 pixels of their window.

[-] hulemy@ani.social 2 points 5 months ago

My android does that too, but some apps ignore it and it's extremely annoying, especially when lying in bed (looking at you, Sleep for Android)

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 points 5 months ago

On stock Android and Samsung, the default is auto rotation, but when I turn it off, exactly that happens. That's why I turn it off.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I hate controlling screen rotation based off it. It's great in controllers for aiming though.

[-] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

On Samsung devices you can go into settings and add a "routine" under Modes And Routines that automatically enables auto rotate for certain apps, and disables it when you leave the apps.

Alternatively I believe you can do the same if you have a license for Tasker.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 5 months ago

Give me a stabilized image on a spinning display.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 58 points 5 months ago
[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

I’m just sitting here patiently waiting for hexagonal displays.

[-] Adler180@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Hexagons are the bestagons.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

If we could get edge-to-edge displays, hexagonal panels with a spherical radius will be the next big thing for battle stations.

(By spherical, I mean its curved so it can be tiled into a sphere.)

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Let's go one step further and build a monitor orb with a chair in the center.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I mean, yes. That's what I was getting at.

something like this:

but better.

[-] Nariom@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

What about a pyramid tablet?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Only if I also get a dodecahedral phone.

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 1 points 5 months ago

Needs to be circular to maximize efficiency

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago

Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 18 points 5 months ago

-22° so cool

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 10 points 5 months ago

This truly is the landlord tipping of linux memes

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago
[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

An article that links to a Tweet that links to a blog post with the actual useful information.
They truly Human Centipede'd this one

[-] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] nastyyboi@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Only for Xorg. Wayland guys need to wait a bit :)

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Any time some obscure Linux feature is mentioned I see this xkcd comic in my mind: https://xkcd.com/619/

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 4 points 5 months ago

Well, Flash is now dead so nobody actually does that anymore.

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I've got two vertical monitors on either side of my one large horizontal monitor right now and I am loving it

[-] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

The 'ol tie fighter layout, nice

[-] Muscar@discuss.online 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You failed with the image, though. The screen image isn't supposed to rotate with the display.

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