Saying “You’re using it wrong” is blaming the user for using the computer the way it was presented out of the box.
It's also the way we've used computers for nearly fifty years and the way we interact with every other display in our lives. As examples almost no one uses less than the full wide of their TV, Smart Phone, or Tablet. There's no reasons that computer displays should be any different and they weren't until pretty recently.
If you’re using anything full screen, you’re doing it wrong
I'll make sure to start watching YT videos in tiny little boxes like we did in the 90s and 2000s. 😜
I have 3 curved monitors in the home office. Left monitor is browser, center monitor is primary task, right monitor is comms or secondary task. I can't track more than three things at a time anyway and I bought these big ol' curved monitors for a reason.
This is how computer monitors have been used since I first touched an Apple II+ in 1980. It's how you use every other display in your life. The problem isn't with people using apps full screen.
Stop making a single browser window full screen and use the additional space on the side for something useful.
So stop using monitors the way I've been using them since 1982? Stop using them the way that literally every other screen I interact with functions?
A chat application, a notepad, a calculator, file browsing, a second browser window, documents, etc.
That's what 2nd and 3rd monitors are for.
Or rotate the display to be tall instead of wide if you really want the extra vertical space.
That's not so easy when you're using multiple curved monitors with a stand or mount.
I get what you're saying, I really do, but from my point of view it's incorrect. It breaks the usage paradigm that's been in place since these things were invented and there's no other screens in our lives where we intentionally use less than the full width available for a single task.
But web devs seem universally to assume that if it’s a tall narrow screen, to show the mobile version.
Web Devs are also highly allergic to using the 25% of the screen on both the right and left so only the middle 50% is useful space. It's god damned infuriating!
With that in mind; a wide monitor is useful for ... web browsing
Are you serious? As I'm typing this comment Lemmy has just over 4" of totally unused space on the left of my monitor and 3 1'2" of unused space on the right!
Granted that's not the fault of the monitor but not only does widescreen reduce the amount of viewable area top to bottom modern web hackery doesn't even fucking use all of that extra space side to side!
I have about the same viewable area now as I did in 2000 with a 20" "square" monitor!
I have my smoke / CO detectors, KIdde Z-Wave units, tied to my Home Assistant setup. HA will push a notifier to my phone if the smoke or CO alarm goes off and it's able to track the battery life and let me know I need to change them before they start beeping.
"Bans ARs" but specifically exempts the Ruger Mini-14. 😂
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That is a very cool project that I'd never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
I don't like this at all.
There's overlap because of Federal Elections. You can have one set of rules for State / County / City level elections and another set for Federal.
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