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Thanks to @redcalcium@lemmy.institute for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 80 points 10 months ago (1 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:

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree. I've edited the OP accordingly.

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] trash@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I agree with Crab Man.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy 43 points 10 months ago

Two facts:

  1. I love people doing weird things with tech.
  2. I absolutely hate this.
[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it really 1st of April already

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

The time is flying fast this year...

[–] ryan@the.coolest.zone 28 points 10 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@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 10 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

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 25 points 10 months ago
[–] Cwilliams 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 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.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] SGHFan@lemdro.id 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 10 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.

[–] bnjmn@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

All us ricers, assemble!