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[–] [email protected] 118 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, that blog post is so much better than that article.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree. I've edited the OP accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I highly recommend her blogs/fediverse posts, she does lots of cool things with computers and ham radio

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"What's stopping you from developing for diagonal mode?"

Diagonal Mode

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

No, it's the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ackshually the social network you're mentioning has changed its name so instead of "Tweets" they should be "Xeets" (like sheets por shits if you prefer).

!I love how people refuse to use its new name!<

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I've opted for zitter personally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Spoilers don't work how they do on reddit, you need to type

::: spoiler
Text
:::

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I agree with Crab Man.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

[–] possiblylinux127 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It was a mistake to come down from the trees if you ask me. These days there's even people saying we should of stayed in the water were life was simpler.

Of course there's the total extremists who think life was better as a single celled microbe. Those people are always hard to talk to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We should HAVE stayed in the water. The real fringe radicals are those who defend the idea that crystals are alive. I think they're lesser lifeforms who don't deserve social security

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it really 1st of April already

[–] arthur 2 points 11 months ago

The time is flying fast this year...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

Two facts:

  1. I love people doing weird things with tech.
  2. I absolutely hate this.
[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I hate it!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This doesn't work on Wayland lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Based, X forever staying relevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Time to update "Are we Wayland yet?" With this breaking lack of feature support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its --transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don't know, I haven't been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

well expecting to use a tool made for X on Wayland is expecting a boat paddle to move a car.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I'd rather get three mid range 1440p monitors , stack two horizontal and the third over the two horizontals but offset. It would probably still cost less than one of those ultrawides.

Who am I kidding. My cheap ass would do neither.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Mods, remove his balls

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone please tell me how to do this on Wayland. "c/unixporn, here I come!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Should be as simple as a shader on-top of Weston or sum 🤷

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see their point, but they need to stop microdosing if they lack the self-control or memory to keep the walls from getting a bit runny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I never knew people could microdose deliriants

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Benadryl is basically that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Thank God for betteridge's law of headlines

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Redcalcium provided a much better link. I've edited my post accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean everyone can buy this, they only need money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

EDIT: Uh, this comment used to hold a reply to a completely different comment elsewhere. Disregard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Perfect, just what I need if I set my laptop on my laptop stand the wrong way!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I want to stack 3 like that and be all kewl cyb3r-h4ckz0rz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Now I know what I will do when I hack a NSA/CIA computer! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

All us ricers, assemble!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If we need to start supporting diagonals, I'm quitting webdev for good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I would constantly be turning my head, even though I wouldn't need to, if my monitor were rotated at a weird angle like that.