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[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 118 points 7 months ago

Well yes, the rest of the world does have better paper. 21×29.7, the only ratio to conserve itself when halving the sheet

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 44 points 7 months ago
[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago
[-] the_seven_sins@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 35 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Legend has it that Leonardo da Vinci came up with it

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[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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)

a^2=2b^2

a^2/b^2=2

a/b=sqrt(2)

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[-] joshfaulkner@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago
[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago
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[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] LichbaneLB@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago

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

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

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

[-] LichbaneLB@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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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[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

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

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 45 points 7 months ago

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

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago
[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

depen dancies

dancies - little dances :]

[-] Oxnvat@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago
[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago
[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago

Stupid Nvidia Ink Cartridges...

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

Well the tearing fixes would definitely help.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

for fuck sake shut up LMAO

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 5 points 7 months ago

Early Febuary 2024 if all goes well.

[-] michel@friend.ketterle.ch 1 points 4 months ago

@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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