Can’t imagine there are too many traditional offices with 40" 6k screens.

As I say, I think it’s unfair to blame users for “not using the screen properly” when most office software is set up for portrait, while the screens are horizontal. Yes you can use multiple windows (assuming your widescreen display is big enough to allow productive working with two smaller windows), or multiple screens, or rotate them etc, but they feel like workarounds to get around the fact that the applications work naturally in portrait, and most laptop screens for example don’t easily accommodate any of those options. Which is probably why you see more 3:2 laptop displays than standalone monitors.

Genius.

Essentially if you want to use a monitor horizontally that’s fine, if you want to rotate it vertically that’s also fine, if you want to have equal horizontal and vertical real estate you’re out of your mind.

we use the width more than the height.

Tell that to my scrolling finger.

Not if the square monitor is the same width as the widescreen though.

Think I had the exact same one in about 2008!

Assuming the software takes that into account too though, yes?

I mean, yes we can rotate screens if the hardware allows for it, but the defaults always seem to be “screen is horizontal, software control is also horizontal”, therefore eating up a percentage of the available working document space, which itself, is generally portrait.

I reckon that was more to do with the actual screen size though. Screens are a fuckload bigger and cheaper these days.

Genx were young during “dumb” tech. VCR, digital phones, etc. millennials were learning the internet as it was moving from a hobby to its own platform, cellphones as they were first widely available then as they went “smart”, and a lot of other examples.

What’s being missed here is that Gen-X were doing the same thing as Millennials at the same time, except in the workplace rather than school. But they also had the experience of what came before.

Gen Xers didn’t just stop at the “dumb” tech, they were the ones putting the smart tech into practice at work. While millennial students were learning about the Internet, Gen X were building it.

They aren’t as tech savvy as millennials.

Yeah, this is nonsense. Gen X were the generation that had to adapt to emerging technology in the workplace, when that technology itself wasn’t designed with user-friendliness at its core, and usually without an education that prioritised that. They worked with obscure hardware and obtuse software. They then continued to adapt as the Internet became prevalent and software within offices evolved. They saw the most change, and remain in the workforce.

As time has gone on, technology has simplified for the user. As such, Gen X are absolutely the generation that taught their parents how to solve their IT issues, and the ones that continue to teach their children, with Xennials being the peak of that curve.

Anecdotally, my teenage kids fly around an iPhone, but still think a computer is the fucking monitor.

So basically marriage? ;)

Yeah, relationships would begin and end as normal I’d expect. The only limitation to meeting new people is how far you can reasonably travel within the window.

Potentially, but I can’t imagine your first thought would be “I must be reliving the same day” rather than “I could have sworn I took the trash out yesterday”.

I’d definitely be questioning my sanity before the third law of thermodynamics.

What I find interesting is that potentially the time loop wouldn’t even be discovered immediately. Most people would wake up in the morning and head to work as normal. There wouldn’t really be an obvious sign we’re in a Groundhog Day, since the usual indicator of that in fiction is that other people are doing the same thing they did yesterday. Which they won’t be, if everyone is experiencing it.

There would be sparse stories worldwide initially of people claiming that it’s the same day as yesterday. Your phone might still have yesterday’s date, which most will attribute to a global software glitch. Maybe some investigation is done, hardware that tracks the skies shows the earth in the same position. But final, global, acceptance would filter down slowly, since you’d only be getting news for one day via technological means, and the only up to date information you’d reliably get is direct communication. Unless of course the technology still works - phone calls etc, wouldn’t just immediately be unavailable.

If you lived remotely, off grid, or alone, how would you even know unless you started to notice actual physical repetition. Rain starting at the same time every day etc. It’s genuinely fascinating.

If everyone resets, and their memory is retained, then perhaps less would change than you’d expect. For example, if you wanted to organise an event for the following day (ie today, but again), then it’s still possible to plan. In which case, many things about life actually stay the same. Only the physicality of things actually change. For people not already suffering, it’s actually a great mechanism for freedom, since the shackles of money, food, health etc are no longer a concern.

The fridge egg holder is for keeping hard boiled eggs, not raw ones.

That’s an interesting observation, I hadn’t thought of that. Although the day I consider pre-boiling eggs for later consumption is the day I give up on the illusion of youth.

This’ll blow your mind, but I actually put the box on top of the fridge. It makes sense in my kitchen layout, but I understand how much of fridge-tease it is for them.

Yeah you’re right, I should really be more invested in global egg storage.

I think this is bordering on becoming an absurd discussion on the validity of demographics, which I’m not really interested in.

Besides which, the last time a whole US population was polled about something, they decided to make the worst possible decision, so my interest in US opinion is even less today.

Apart from pretty much every single supermarket

It answers the question as to why I limited it to the UK. Advice for eggs from non-vaccinated hens is to refrigerate them. So in a country that doesn’t vaccinate, the proportion of refrigerated eggs will be much higher than a country where it isn’t necessarily advised, and the decision comes down to personal choice. That’s what I’m interested in.

Because in countries that don’t vaccinate their chickens (like the US) the risk of salmonella is much higher so the recommendation is that eggs should be refrigerated to reduce bacteria growth.