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    [–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] orl0pl 14 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)

    What information is in your navigation bar?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    What navbar?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 11 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 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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.

    [–] Darorad 4 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] Cyanogenmon 3 points 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)

    Give me a stabilized image on a spinning display.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
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    [–] hperrin 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

    [–] Adler180 16 points 11 months ago

    Hexagons are the bestagons.

    [–] FuglyDuck 14 points 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] FuglyDuck 8 points 11 months ago

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

    something like this:

    but better.

    [–] PropaGandalf 3 points 11 months ago

    You mean VR?

    [–] Nariom 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    What about a pyramid tablet?

    [–] hperrin 5 points 11 months ago

    Only if I also get a dodecahedral phone.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Needs to be circular to maximize efficiency

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

    -22° so cool

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

    Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

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

    This truly is the landlord tipping of linux memes

    [–] einlander 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 11 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] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
    [–] nastyyboi 9 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] Matriks404 6 points 11 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 11 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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 11 months ago

    The 'ol tie fighter layout, nice

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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