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Alt text: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...

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That, right there, is a perfect example of why folks need to stop trying to shoehorn web apps everywhere they don’t belong. It’s a use-case for a proper native mobile app if ever there was one.

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BRB, sticking microcontrollers to the back of my monitors so I can use their accelerometers to report the orientations in real time…

grue, (edited )

That’s why you should’ve just handled arbitrary rotations instead of inventing a finite predefined set of orientation “modes” in the first place.

Things get a lot easier in the long run if you aggressively look for commonalities and genericize the code that handles them instead of writing bunches of one-off special cases.

grue,

There’s no Wayland protocol for custom angle rotation, and I don’t expect anyone to create a protocol extension without a use-case.

[gestures at thread] Does this not count??? 😁

Seriously, though: I suspect there might be non-novelty use-cases in mobile devices, especially things like smart watches. Those aren’t beyond the scope of Wayland in the long run, are they?

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Might as well ask Lemmy how to pass the Kobayashi Maru test, while you’re at it.

Hardware question

Hello! This might not be the right community but I’m looking at building a new server and you operate in similar areas and might have experience with this. I’ve got a GPU without video outputs, can I combine that with a CPU without integrated graphics and still get video output from the HDMI located on the motherboard?

grue,

This might be an X/Y problem. Why do you think you need HDMI output on a server?

grue,

One of my computers is a Chromebook (which I was required to have in order to run my college’s proctoring spyware, and bought before the Manifest V3 controversy was a thing). I’ve tried running Firefox on it inside the Linux virtual environment but it doesn’t work well, and the issue hasn’t been urgent enough to be worth blowing away Chrome OS and making it into a normal Linux laptop yet.

grue, (edited )

Chrome is based on Safari (which itself is based on KHTML). They diverged a long time ago, but there’s still a genetic relationship there. Even if Safari for Windows were still a thing and you were serious instead of trolling, that strategy still wouldn’t be as good as switching to Firefox’s actually-unrelated codebase.

(Also, the real WTF is using Windows in general.)

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I’ve looked all over the Internet for <16" short-depth cases multiple times over the years, and I’ve learned the most important question is this: what do you want to put in it?

I’ll tell you right now that some of the things I’ve wanted, like…

  • A 2U with hot-swap caddies all the way across the front (like this or this, but <16" deep at the cost of fitting only an ITX motherboard), or
  • A 4- or 5U chassis that can fit an EATX / SSI EEB (12"x13") motherboard and an ATX PSU at the same time, or
  • A chassis of any size that has both the motherboard/PCI I/O and the drive bays on the front (front drive bays are normal and you can get front access I/O, but not both at the same time)

…simply do not exist, as far as I can tell. I’m pretty sure all of these things are geometrically possible (I did the math), but apparently I’m the only one who wants such weird stuff.

You can get a basic-bitch whatever-U case that supports a mATX motherboard and hard-mounting a couple of internal drives, with sharp metal edges, a shitty plastic door, and a price double (or more) what similarly low quality would cost in a desktop form-factor all day long, though.

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Star Trek already did this, except it was Data instead of a Vulcan and he didn’t get a very good grade.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqFm_vmVnE

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You’re not late. There are still nine days of Christmas left to go!

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I found a software project called LibreScore (new version) / musescore-downloader (old version). (I’m linking the old version because the readme has useful background info about MuseScore’s bad faith, which wasn’t copied to the newer project.) However, the app gives me an error when I try to download anything.

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You know how the right-wing nutjobs have been frothing about a “new world order” conspiracy theory for a long time now? You know, the one about a secretive multinational cabal plotting to take over the entire world?

Yeah… it turns out even .

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outlasted by a lettuce.

American here. How much is that converted to Mooches?

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Although it’s the third least-popular of the eight songs the guy’s done so far, it’s by far my favorite. Not only is the concept great, it’s definitely the most technically successful one (in terms of the lyrics being pieced together the smoothest).

grue,

He had enough of one to go clubbing with the mescaline guy. Let’s be honest: a truly anti-social geek would never even get the invite.

grue,

There is no such thing as “the peertube link” (emphasis added) because (a) as with Lemmy, there is no single canonical Peertube instance, and (b) unlike Piped etc., Peertube isn’t designed to mirror Youtube, but instead be its own platform.

In other words, in order to post a Peertube link, somebody would have to explicitly choose to upload the Youtube video to a specific Peertube instance and then post the link to that.

grue,

I’m reading that less as “amazing German efficiency” and more as “WTF, they waste the space on a parking lot the rest of the year?”

grue,

When it isn’t otherwise occupied, instead of a parking lot, it could just be a park.

grue, (edited )

I’m wondering where your reading comprehension is.

It’s at the part where you wrote (emphasis added):

There’s stuff going on pretty frequently but when it ain’t, it’s gonna have to be a skatepark + parking lot.

Don’t fucking tell me it’s a parking lot and then accuse me of lack of reading comprehension when I call it a parking lot!

It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. (www.cinemablend.com)

I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....

grue,

“Look, either we make the guy taller or I turn this into an Angel One or Code of Honor remake” – Berman, probably.

grue,

The C3-PO leg is perfect, but I think decapitating R2-D2 is a little extreme just to be an analogue for the lampshade. Maybe a stormtrooper helmet instead?

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