this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 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] 40 points 8 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] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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 8 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] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What information is in your navigation bar?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

What navbar?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 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 8 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] 5 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Give me a stabilized image on a spinning display.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Hexagons are the bestagons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about a pyramid tablet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Only if I also get a dodecahedral phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Needs to be circular to maximize efficiency

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

-22° so cool

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Is someone already working on a trapezoid desktop environment?

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

This truly is the landlord tipping of linux memes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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 8 months ago

The 'ol tie fighter layout, nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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