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Klaymore@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

I bet the rest of the world has better paper

sh.itjust.works

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I bet the rest of the world has better paper

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Klaymore@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    Well yes, the rest of the world does have better paper. 21×29.7, the only ratio to conserve itself when halving the sheet

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      Wait, is that true? Is there something special about that ratio in particular that lets it conserve ratio when dividing?

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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        ISO 216 Paper

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          And IIRC, A0 is 1m²

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            There also is B0, which is exactly 1 by the root of 2 meters.

          • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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            Beautiful.

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        Yes it’s true. It’s the square root of 2, which is why it works.

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          Legend has it that Leonardo da Vinci came up with it

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            Legend has it he came up with catgirl memes, too.

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        Here you go, proof at ~2 min in.

        Edit: for those who don’t want to use YouTube anymore. If a is the long side and b is the short side of a rectangle. Halving the rectangle will make the long side b and the short side 1/2 a. If the ratio is preserved when halving, we get:

        a/b=b/(1/2 a)

        a2*=2*b2

        a2*/*b2=2

        a/b=sqrt(2)

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      • joshfaulkner@lemmy.world
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        Here’s a fun CGP Grey video on the matter: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=9czdx4u8jWruZoui

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          untrackered link: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI

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        Yes, this particular ratio allows the fact that you can fold a A3 paper in two and get two A4 sheet

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        Besides the Grey video heres an oldie but goodie Numberphile video about it

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        It’s called the Golden Ratio and has a lot of neat properties! Da Vinci and other nerds love(d) using it in art.

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      I didn’t know there are part of the world which doesn’t put A4 in their printers

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      Relation 1 to SQR 2, from A0 of 1m2 to A5 letter format (A4, A5 most used in the EU), every time the half of the next bigger format. Easy to remember.

      https://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm

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    For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.

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      Neither of them are window managers, they are windowing systems. A window manager is the part that actually lets you move around windows and draws the borders and stuff, like kwin, mutter, xfwm, i3, etc

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        As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.

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        Yeah? Well you too, Nerd!

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      Y’all arguing about window managers and I’m just trying to connect my shit-ass bt headset to my PC.

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      does Wayland even have a built in DWM? Because both are session manager.

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        No, Wayland is just a protocol, and the things that implement it are compositor, not WMs

        Also, there’s no such thing as a DWM, except for the WM called dwm

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      X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers

      eye twitch

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    Yes, we do have metric paper. A4 vs. US letter.

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    This meme was brought to you by :s/x11/wayland/g

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    Legacy dependancies

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      depen dancies

      dancies - little dances :]

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        deleted by creator

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          Ink erasers are depens. If you want to remove what a pen did to your paper, you depen it.

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            they’re doing their dancies on the pen’s ink

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      Mir for me

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    Well the tearing fixes would definitely help.

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      Option "TearFree" "true" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/your.conf but some compositors do that already.

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    Stupid Nvidia Ink Cartridges…

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    for fuck sake shut up LMAO

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    I’m starting to think Wayland is the systemd of desktop graphic environments. Might be amazing eventually, but pushed onto the community too soon by opinionated devs who have fallen victim to the second-system effect.

    Mod me down, don’t care.

    Edit: Woohoo, into the ground! Mod me down further, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine :p

    I don’t troll often, but when I do… it’s about Wayland and systemd. Nyah nyah.

    Honestly if Wayland will work 100% on my next setup and apps appear as expected, I won’t give a damn what system I’m using.

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      I actually quite like Wayland. I have not had a problem. Except with the discord application cause they are too lazy to fix their screen recording bug

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        :) I’ll try it again, promise. I just didn’t have a good experience around two years ago. I do hear it’s much better now.

        I’ll confess I’ve avoided systemd to this day however. Devuan/Funtoo are fine, and I don’t miss any of the supposed improvements systemd brings. So I’ll probably be rocking Wayland/open-rc or Wayland/sysv-init until I drop dead.

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          Systemd is great for process management. It’s fault is trying to do too much.

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            Is there a Systemd fork that is unix philosophy compliant?

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              I don’t think you can change foundational architectural things like that in a fork. A lot of systemd’s strengths also come from the integration of doing many things, e.g. process management and the sandboxing features together are certainly easier to read and write than having the process management call some sort of external sandboxing tool (potentially multiple nested ones) with a bazillion parameters all in the ExecStart line of the systemd unit.

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      It was pushed way too soon. It’s just not too soon anymore, that’s why everybody is moving now.

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        I sincerely hope it turns out to be the case. I don’t pretend I haven’t torn out my hair on multiple occasions fighting with xorg.conf… that’s for sure.

        Just being provocative for the lulz on a memepost, mostly :)

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      I like both Wayland and systemd

      Name one init system that boots as fast as systemd on a modern distro with many services. Then name a display server that’s actually easy to maintain and to develop client applications for

      The current issues with Wayland are due to it being new, X11 fanboys not wanting to explore the idea of contributing to Wayland, and client applications that are poorly designed

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        X11 fanboys not wanting to explore the idea of contributing to Wayland,

        People have tried that, those projects are all dead for 3-5 years now because Wayland’s design turned out to be so much more flawed than originally expected with its “Oh, you know all that stuff the X server used to do, you now have to do all of that yourself in your compositor even though you don’t care about any of it and there is no benefit from having multiple implementations” approach.

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      Wayland is the complete oposite of that crap.

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    Shouldn’t it be 8.5XFree86 in the land of freedom™?

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    HDR for Wayland when?

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    @Klaymore
    Two Questions:
    * Why is it needed to set up resolutions If you work with screens in these Modern days. There should only be zooming?
    * I have two screens one HD and one 4K. Why could I not set both screens as same physical high or same width?

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