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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The steam deck does have a gyroscope for sensing rotation... Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

That feature has always been annoying to me, even on phones. I always turn it off because "I" will control whether my screen rotates or not. Maybe sometimes I don't want it to rotate when I turn the phone (like when I'm viewing building plans at work and want to orient the screen with how I'm looking at the building I'm standing in).

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a stock Android feature, or at least it's on Motorola phones. Handy button.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

That's a stock Android feature, I have that on LineageOS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That rotate button is incredibly annoying. I turned off auto-rotate for a reason and the button obscures other information displayed in that corner of the screen. Wish I could turn the button off too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What information is in your navigation bar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What navbar?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There is no navigation bar on the Pixel 8. It uses some sort of gesture-based system instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not pixel specific, stock android. You can enable the old on-screen buttons for accessibility reasons or if you're a grumpy old sod who hates change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s still a navigation bar it’s just transparent. If there’s important information down there that can get blocked by it then the developers of the app did something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It is simply the bottom of the app window. There is nothing app-specific to this behaviour, lots of apps show information in the lower 20-30 pixels of their window.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My android does that too, but some apps ignore it and it's extremely annoying, especially when lying in bed (looking at you, Sleep for Android)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

On stock Android and Samsung, the default is auto rotation, but when I turn it off, exactly that happens. That's why I turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I hate controlling screen rotation based off it. It's great in controllers for aiming though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

On Samsung devices you can go into settings and add a "routine" under Modes And Routines that automatically enables auto rotate for certain apps, and disables it when you leave the apps.

Alternatively I believe you can do the same if you have a license for Tasker.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Give me a stabilized image on a spinning display.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I’m just sitting here patiently waiting for hexagonal displays.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Hexagons are the bestagons.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If we could get edge-to-edge displays, hexagonal panels with a spherical radius will be the next big thing for battle stations.

(By spherical, I mean its curved so it can be tiled into a sphere.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's go one step further and build a monitor orb with a chair in the center.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I mean, yes. That's what I was getting at.

something like this:

but better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about a pyramid tablet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Only if I also get a dodecahedral phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Needs to be circular to maximize efficiency

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

-22° so cool

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

Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

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

This truly is the landlord tipping of linux memes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Only for Xorg. Wayland guys need to wait a bit :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

An article that links to a Tweet that links to a blog post with the actual useful information.
They truly Human Centipede'd this one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any time some obscure Linux feature is mentioned I see this xkcd comic in my mind: https://xkcd.com/619/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well, Flash is now dead so nobody actually does that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've got two vertical monitors on either side of my one large horizontal monitor right now and I am loving it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The 'ol tie fighter layout, nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You failed with the image, though. The screen image isn't supposed to rotate with the display.