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Good luck web devs
(lemmy.world)
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Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.
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Why would you want this?
to display Java class names on a single line
This person gets it
What if your monitor has a bullet hole you want to avoid looking at?
Why does your monitor have a bullet hole?
Why do you ask so many questions? ಠ_ಠ
Why don't you answer them?
Because then words like "evidence" and "premeditated" get thrown around.
Because asking and answering too many questions was exactly how they ended up with a bullet hole in their monitor.
American schools
I came back to my office after the new year's break and a stray bullet, from I'm assuming celebratory gunfire, was shot through the wall and hit my screen. Admittedly it wasn't a hole and the screen was totally unusable after, but I'll be a close n=1.
You don't?
Gary Indiana reporting in
AsK yOuR mOm
A good use case for American k-12 IT admins
A bullet hole would be slightly less annoying than the one green dead pixel I have at work.
Why would you not?
Can't argue with that.
(insert image of Mt. Everest)
Because It's There.
It’s a novelty. I for one deeply love unusually shaped monitors and UXs.
Could be useful for an interactive art installation or something alike.
Possibly to run those strangely shaped outdoor billboard signs
in case you use a pear phone as a daily driver
I thought it was surely just a joke but looking at the devices to the right maybe this was due to limited desk space?
It could be useful if you live in a submarine that is always emerging/submerging.
4th nerve palsy posse has been asking for this for years.
It's not about why. It's about the freedom to do.