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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 99 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 82 points 2 years ago

It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] kwozyman@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SkyeHarith@lemmy.world 3 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 2 years ago)
[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Screen orientation is no laughing matter!

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 8 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 53 points 2 years 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 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 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 years ago

Hasn't science not gone too far enough already?

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

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

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 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 35 points 2 years 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 19 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?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 16 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years ago

It's a text mode joke

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 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?

:-)

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

Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?

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

Can we now have a 22 degree desk?

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

Have fun with screen tearing