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Forgot to say, I reckon your economies of scale answer is the reason why. TVs were, so makes sense for monitors to be.

Think I had the exact same one in about 2008!

Assuming the software takes that into account too though, yes?

I mean, yes we can rotate screens if the hardware allows for it, but the defaults always seem to be "screen is horizontal, software control is also horizontal", therefore eating up a percentage of the available working document space, which itself, is generally portrait.

Won't they both show 16:9 or 4:3 but with black bars either vertically or horizontally?

I reckon that was more to do with the actual screen size though. Screens are a fuckload bigger and cheaper these days.

Yeah but vertical monitor with extra width is even better 😂

Exactly what I do too, then had a shower thought about why I had to.

What do you mean by look good though? My question is based on productivity, and why software seems geared towards having top-down functionality on screens that generally provide more width.

Yeah. Strange that in general the applications themselves haven't transitioned with the hardware. Every office desktop seems to have a widescreen, but every office application still has its menus along the top by default, and does little to take advantage of the increased horizontal space.

I can't imagine OneNote will ever disappear. It's ingrained in a lot of businesses. The under-featured UWP app on the other hand is no loss.

Oh and not to question the professor's expertise but you can't blame the consumers for this one. Literally NOBODY asked for one of these pins.

"These products are designed based on the consumers' desires and affordability," said Berrin Tansel, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Florida International University.

Making them easier to recycle would require the cost of the material recovery process to be fronted by the manufacturer, making them more expensive, Tansel told Context.

This article is a bit of a mess. What the fuck does AI have to do with the amount of glue used in a device?

And why focus on a limited run from a failed product rather than the literal millions of successful wearable products like airpods that are equally hard to recycle?

Also

Meanwhile, the use of the technology is only expected to grow.

Very insightful

Haha I'm just being dismissive, but greater minds than mine have made the same point.  

I read something a while back about Ludwig Wittgenstein (in a YouTube comment of all places). He basically said "It turns out that Philosophy, my entire life's work, is just a language game and, in the end just like a game, it can be fun and challenging, but ultimately meaningless." Everyone disagreed then immediately went back to playing their own games, trying to prove him wrong by proving him right.

I used to be really interested in paradoxes, but I decided in my old age that they’re all just bloody annoying and pointless. 99% of paradoxes are just linguistics. All these philosophers who spent their lives debating them are infuriating bastards. “Oh you’ve come up with another unsolvable word puzzle have you? Well that’s language for you - an abstraction developed by the fallible. Congratulations mate, great use of everyone’s time.”

The Discovery section in Pixelfed definitely needs work, but the ability to follow hashtags offsets that somewhat. I’ve found loads of great photographers to follow off the back of following hashtags that I’m interested in.

Without wanting to sound patronising, dating apps absolutely do work, but it's the users that make them work. If your profile photos are shit, or your chat is uninteresting or unfunny, you're not going to succeed.

I'm a middle-aged male divorcee who'd been off and on Tinder for about 4 years, and I'd describe myself as average-looking, but I met a number of women on it. Without the dating apps, my in-person shyness would have prevented me from meeting anyone. They were an absolute godsend for me.

Still there mate

I suppose, but he did start name-calling just because another developer had the audacity to start building their own fediverse photo sharing platform (Vernissage). Then apologised and removed the toot.

Bearing in mind the other developer also actually built a functioning and rather excellent third party Pixelfed app (Impressia) that he wrote because he got frustrated with the lack of development on the official Pixelfed app, and which was available on app stores years earlier, it seemed beyond unnecessary.

Weirdo

Ha probably not, but you never know. I bet they can determine my ideologies from the publications I’ve blocked on Apple News +, but who knows what they use to build up a profile.

Yeah no doubt. If I were Dan though, I’d just change it before it got to that point. Pixelfed has only actually had this redesigned logo for a few months, and the app has only just been pushed out of beta, so it’s not like it’s an established recognisable brand to lose.