https://xkcd.com/2880

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A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.

  • JackFrostNCola
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    501 year ago

    It unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.

    • Funwayguy
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      191 year ago

      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.

    • @Cocodapuf
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      81 year ago

      Yeah, now I want boat mode too!

    • @Phoenix3875
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      31 year ago

      But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.

      • Ultragramps
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        11 year ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.