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https://xkcd.com/2880 Alt text: A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.
minus-squarekurwa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·6 months agoBoat Mode needs to be a thing, I don’t know what it does but I want it.
minus-squareJackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·6 months agoIt unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.
minus-squareFunwayguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·6 months agoIt’d be like the phone equivalent of Linux’s diagonal monitor orientation, only now the touch screen experience is beyond fucked. Strangely enough this might work for round smart watches though.
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoYeah, now I want boat mode too!
minus-squareQwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 months ago2024, make it happen!
minus-squarePhoenix3875@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoBut then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.
minus-squareUltragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIn my experience, the human form of “Boat Mode” means drunk. A drunk person with a wobbly mobile device sounds like sad fail tiktok content.
minus-squaresgt_hulka@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoBrilliant! I’d use that as Carsick Mode myself. Maybe then I could read a map in the passenger seat without hurling into the driver’s lap.
Boat Mode needs to be a thing, I don’t know what it does but I want it.
It unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.
It’d be like the phone equivalent of Linux’s diagonal monitor orientation, only now the touch screen experience is beyond fucked.
Strangely enough this might work for round smart watches though.
Yeah, now I want boat mode too!
2024, make it happen!
But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.
In my experience, the human form of “Boat Mode” means drunk. A drunk person with a wobbly mobile device sounds like sad fail tiktok content.
Brilliant! I’d use that as Carsick Mode myself. Maybe then I could read a map in the passenger seat without hurling into the driver’s lap.