• kubica
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    11 months ago

    Someone:

    html, body { max-width: 640px !important; }

    • lad
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      3011 months ago

      Reminds me of what the official Instagram client looked like on iPad, a lot of margins, and a bit of that 640px wide feed (or whatever the actual width was)

      Don’t know if it’s still the same

      • @drathvedro@lemm.ee
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        1011 months ago

        Looks like nothing has changed. This is how it opens up on 4k screen. Although, it looks like they tweaked it a little. Up until recently I remember opening a post would show a hilariously small like 800 by 600-something box, half of which was comment section that’d fit like 5 comments at best. But now they finally made it properly scalable.

    • ÚwÙ-Passwort
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      311 months ago

      The only reason I have an extension for custom css is this bullshit on far to many pages and I only have a normal Ultrawide

  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    1011 months ago

    Looks like 86" to play Untitled Goose Game.

    The game with the least reason to play widescreen.

    • @RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      The best game for it! Widescreen honking at its finest! Really feel you are in that village, being chased by a horrible goose!

      Honk honk honk honk!

  • teft
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    5011 months ago

    And then you have that one guy that rotates his monitor using this.

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      2811 months ago

      I don’t understand how this guy has an audience. I saw one video that was alright where he cleaned a water-cooling system. The rest were like, “look at all this garbage we bought on Aliexpress lol,” and I bounce after several seconds.

      • @KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social
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        1911 months ago

        I watch because its stupid. Its like why Call of Duty exists. Just dumb fun that doesn’t require much thought to enjoy. Sometimes you just need some good dumb fun and can’t be serious all the time.

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        For people interested in tech edutainment he’s alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

        So much terrible click bait has meant I haven’t bothered clicking in a year or so though.

        • @kieron115@startrek.website
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          1911 months ago

          Same. I love any of their “infrastructure” type videos. One of my favorites is when their storage server almost kicked the bucket and they showed the unimaginably stressful recovery process.

          • Joe Cool
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            1011 months ago

            And even those videos show how little they know.

            They are fun to watch in a “kid goes wow at enterprise tech” kinda way.

        • Iceblade
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          611 months ago

          Yeah he was much better a while back. Though that can be said for most of youtube. The algo messes up everything

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        1011 months ago

        He’s got a lot of charisma. And his videos frequently give that “people doing something they should have prepared more for but pushing through anyways” entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he’s in way over his head, but somehow still manages to keep it going.

        It’s a weird spot where I like the guy and want to see him succeed but also don’t think he deserves that success and want to see him fail.

        Though I don’t really spend much time watching hardware enthusiast videos in general, so I probably won’t see either of those unless it goes viral like his last shitshow did.

        • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he’s in way over his head

          I liked the time when he tried to use linux and ended up destroying his os by blindly following googled command line instructions

          • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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            711 months ago

            I would’ve done exactly the same, seeing how I am also a newbie at using Linux distros. Who would’ve thought trying to install Steam would result in your GUI being deleted.

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              That update bugwas so ridiculously poorly timed for the Linux community. Especially considering he said Pop OS was beginner friendly

          • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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            He used to have some charisma lol. Also the early Linus Tech Tips content, like back when they were running it out of someone’s house, was usually pretty entertaining. Back then the content was much more silly and creative though, and much less corporatized.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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    411 months ago

    What would even be the design solution without massive empty space? Add a lot of columns? Make the long content horizontal instead of vertical?

    • @gentooer@programming.dev
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      311 months ago

      This seems really cool for tiling windows managers (even Windows has tiling options, although I’m not familiar with those). That being said, I still prefer a multimonitor setup on my tiling WM of choice.

    • @wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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      511 months ago

      I think for most web apps it doesn’t make sense to allow the width to get so wide, except when the content being displayed is a columnar list and even then it’s a pretty marginal benefit.

      What I’ve done is limit the max-width to some amount of px/chars and allowed the remaining space be empty, with an exception for when displaying tables. Even with tables, the bigger width is only beneficial if either the contents of the columns are large enough, or there are very many columns to show. The solution in my mind is limiting the column widths to the longest content.

    • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      You could go columns for the content, but I think my ideal layout would still have the main content in a single column. I would put all of the chrome horizontally through. For example no header before and footer afterwards, put everything in different columns. Maybe even throw some extra navigation on the screen.

      You don’t need to use every pixel, just avoid putting things offscreen unnecessarily.

  • EtzBetz
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    711 months ago

    There’s a point somewhere here, but people using apps in full screen with this screen are stupid