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Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (12 children)
[–] asterfield@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What if your monitor has a bullet hole you want to avoid looking at?

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why does your monitor have a bullet hole?

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why do you ask so many questions? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Because then words like "evidence" and "premeditated" get thrown around.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because asking and answering too many questions was exactly how they ended up with a bullet hole in their monitor.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

American schools

[–] leverage@lemdro.id 13 points 1 year ago

I came back to my office after the new year's break and a stray bullet, from I'm assuming celebratory gunfire, was shot through the wall and hit my screen. Admittedly it wasn't a hole and the screen was totally unusable after, but I'll be a close n=1.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago
[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Gary Indiana reporting in

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

A good use case for American k-12 IT admins

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

A bullet hole would be slightly less annoying than the one green dead pixel I have at work.

[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to display Java class names on a single line

[–] spader312@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This person gets it

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Can't argue with that.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It’s a novelty. I for one deeply love unusually shaped monitors and UXs.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

(insert image of Mt. Everest)

Because It's There.

[–] Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Could be useful for an interactive art installation or something alike.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Possibly to run those strangely shaped outdoor billboard signs

in case you use a pear phone as a daily driver

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I thought it was surely just a joke but looking at the devices to the right maybe this was due to limited desk space?

[–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could be useful if you live in a submarine that is always emerging/submerging.

4th nerve palsy posse has been asking for this for years.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's not about why. It's about the freedom to do.