https://xkcd.com/2880

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

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Boat Mode needs to be a thing, I don’t know what it does but I want it.

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

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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.

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Yeah, now I want boat mode too!

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2024, make it happen!

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

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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.

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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.

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