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Not sure I could ever live with that - anyone able to test if multi monitors works?

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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 215 points 11 months ago (11 children)

This is one of those jokes that will absolutely spark a trend where in a few months Asus will have a diagonal monitor for sale and there will be videos and articles about how life changing it is.

The Internet was and continues to be a mistake.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 67 points 11 months ago

I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought this was an Onion article a few wks ago

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 11 months ago

It all comes from a blog post from 2021. A picture from it went viral on X/Twitter a week ago. (First two links in the article) Since then everyone is posting it.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't obviously see it there, I do think its a bit stupid, but I would have thought that Toms Hardware wouldn't have bitten the onion? Or have they gone downhill that far?

[–] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 12 points 11 months ago

They've gone down that far... Lol

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I could totally see using this as a display wall. *Kyle in a bunch of them as a store display or a small display.

*When you ask for tile and google gives you Kyle.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Damnit Kyle!!

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"our market research shows an increased in interest in 22* displays in the last quarter"

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[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 123 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I swear to fucking Stallman, this is at least the fourth time this past week I've seen a unique post about this same fucking shit. One dude writes an article going "xrandr let's you rotate the screen 22 degrees" and the holiday tech news cycle just loses its mind.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 96 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know how when your coworker leaves their desk and forgets to lock their computer, you change their desktop wallpaper to Oompa Loompas or whatever?

This is the new that.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How fine is the resolution of the tilt? I wonder how long it would take to figure out that your display was tilted by 1 degree or less.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Very fine, as long as the computer uses X (the ~~good~~ less shitty one). xrandr can use a matrix to transform the entire output, so you can scale, rotate, move, or shear it as much as you're evil.

[–] jsh@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wayland devs, wake up and implement the features we truly need!

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The biggest hurdle is getting shit past the GNOME developers. Wayland could implement a protocol that cures leukemia, and they'd still raise a stink about use-cases because it doesn't touch other types of cancer.

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[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

They'll end up spending more time arguing about it than implementing it

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 9 points 11 months ago

Technically that's compositor level stuff, and it probably can even treat it like an actual diagonal display and prevent windows from going there and everything.

This is a good example of why some of the protocols are taking so long. Once finalized, it'll probably somehow also be capable of handling... that.

With an accelerometer and a compositor written for that can probably even keep it level in real time. Tilt monitor and windows rotate to match automatically.

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[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually think I'd notice quite quickly as all horizontal and vertical lines would be slightly jagged.

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

it always used to be using the windows command to rotate the screen, this will just add a new layer of confusion.

...or as they are using linux it will probably be seen as a good challenge

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows command to rotate the screen, screenshot the desktop, set it as wallpaper, hide the icons & start bar... Functionally reversed mouse, and can't click anything.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just aliased cd to eject the disk drive.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago

My cupholder just went away!

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Earth's axial tilt is 23.5°, COINCIDENCE? I DON'T THINK SO!!!

Seriously though, I'd be tempted to set it to 23.5° as a gag and tell everyone "Well, for full accuracy, you have to correct for the Earth's axial tilt..."

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that the planet rotates, so the angle between the ecliptic and the screen has to be recalculated periodically with a cron job.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Should be easy to automate it completely with an arduino and a stepper motor.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alright you crazy bastards. Go and make this a thing.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

turns on display

There is a swirl displayed

Display starts spinning

"You're getting sleepy..."

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

Don't give governments any more ideas.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago

Make it and then sell it to my wife to give to me for a gag gift next Christmas.

Her budget for such a thing would probably be ~$100 if you need a target price point.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We just need round monitors so the dimensions don't change when rotating the display.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 27 points 11 months ago

And a gyroscope to rotate the image so it doesn't rotate when rotating the display.

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't even get my second screen to turn on with Linux mint.

[–] averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Really my triple monitor set up works without a hitch

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[–] Agility0971@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh, screen angle is constant. Not impressed until it supports screens with a constant angular velocity.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Make it spin at 3600rpm to simulate a circular surface

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

With a high enough spin rate, it'd be like having a much larger monitor.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This way if you align your monitor with the rotational axis of the Earth, the image appears to sit still in space.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

requires xrandr

Cries in wayland...

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Iirc Wayland as a protocol supports rotation of Window surfaces. I'm not sure if any of the compositors have exposed it as an option. Maybe Weston

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Wayfire has a plugin to rotate windows.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

And my teachers said not to write all my Python in one line.

[for x in range(x: lambda: [while y < z class foo(x: int...

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"is the best" says like one guy. This looks like a nightmare to use TBH.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

** for one very specific version of "best"

[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago

Would be interesting to see a gui that maximizes the content based on rotation if that were even possible

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would I need a Dutch angle monitor?

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For correcting Dutch Angle video... Obviously.

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[–] crsu@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No thanks, I need this as much as I need a VR desktop

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The single use case I can think of are isometric games.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The use case I see is screens mounted on something that moves.

It's easy with accelerometers to know the orientation, so you can display things on something that in its whole or has parts that move in an additive way.

Imagine an movie screening with the screen mounted on a float in the ocean.

The float moves with the waves. You can stabilize the image of the movie to be still while the screen itself tilts.

Something like this, but then with a direct screen instead of a projected one.

Another use case would be applying this to smartwatches or other displays like that.

You could make the output of the screen always be perfectly aligned with your line of sight rather than have it tilted at an angle parallel with your arm.

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