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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

will be able to read motherfuckin' websites really well

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Nvidia spotted. Launching "Nvidia, fuck you!" strike

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Christ, they can't handle 1920W. Everything is a phone now apparently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So at what point does a VR headset end up actually being cheaper than your specialty odd-size curved monitor?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's an advertising display. They're just having fun with it.

It costs 4 grand and has a resolution of like 3480x600, making its pixel density pretty much useless for a monitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Autocorrect's version of "having fun"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Almost immediately

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I gotchu guys. My design has a max width.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like 86" to play Untitled Goose Game.

The game with the least reason to play widescreen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

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!

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