Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.

I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There’s no full screen feature.

Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.

…standing.

It definitely still exists, maybe even popular. It might be just my subjective observation, but it feels like it used to be (even) more popular.

BTW this used to be a rather popular type of flooring. Whenever I entered a flat like that, it was screaming ‘sixties’ from everywhere. I’m not sure whether it was the same in other countries, but this seemed to be the go-to flooring type, unless they opted for the cheaper PVC (?) solution.

Horizontal band member here. If I have to take a photo of a wardrobe, my whole self, a jumping giraffe or the Empire States Building, you can be sure as heck I’ll hold the phone vertically. The only reason for me to take a horizontal photo of my fridge is when it fell on my foot.

Same thing goes vice versa: vertically filming a scenery, a dish, my mom’s panties or a seesaw is plain dumb, unless there’s something else that justifies the awful framing.

BUT when you make a video for the purpose of uploading it to sites like YouTube… You can’t convince me vertical would make more sense. I understand that it’s the same problem if it’s a vertically aligned app (I could go on a 3 day rant about Instagram not allowing horizontal - or any - full screen on desktop), but decent portals do it properly. If you have a phone and you want to watch vertical stuff, problem solved. If you have a phone and want to watch horizontal stuff, just rotate your damn screen, it’s a no-brainer. But when you have a monitor, you can’t (always) just turn it 90 degrees and watch vertical stuff full screen.

Because of lazy uploaders AND lazy management/devs, there are countless of cases where a full screen video has actual content on less than 10% of the screen, because a horizontal video was uploaded to a vertical site, then you open it on a horizontal monitor and it plays like

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Nah mate, last time I tried that it was quite a job moving it to the oven from the toilet bowl.

Also, if you (as a man) think that showing you two men kissing might turn you gay then I’ve got news for you.

A true, confidently heterosexual man won’t suddenly get turned on by men, even if you show them the entire 1973 Construction Worker Calendar. Same goes for women vice versa, but it’s usually the men that are the loudest about this.

However, if you think your sexuality has always been rock solid (😏) then why do you assume the opposite of everyone else?

Haha, yeah, she’s not a 1:1 doppelgänger. Just one from the top of my head that looks somewhat similar, if you squint and ignore the humongous mammaries on the posted image.

And I still have tinnitus from that cover.

Not quite. Unless she’s a “new” face from the past 7-8 years. The closest I can think of is Gabriella Tóth, but she’s like an unschooled butt licker of the previous government (Fidesz/Orbán), and has a quite scandalous background with a rather bad reputation.

But, to be fair, considering Fidesz’s smear campaigns and troll farms, she might even be the face for it.

The amount of childhood trauma inflicted upon gen-x by “children’s media”

I would love to link the English version of the article, but it doesn’t exist. I guess page auto-translation might work, but: back when I was a kid, the quite popular Duck Tales got interrupted due to the death of the prime minister of the time. One minute you were watching uncle Scrooge, the other it was a bunch of people carrying a coffin.

I don’t think I have ever visited the page myself, I have even forgot the creator’s name, but I immediately went ‘aaah, is it that creator?’ - and found nothing lewd and concluded it must not be them, then. So I was actually right.

PSA: Ignoring this warning is foolish. You deserve better.

Tudom. Csak viccesen hangzott, mert ha nem is feltétlenül parafa, de a cork általában dugó.

Plastic cork sounds like plastic glass to me.

A triangular one

When you can finally date AI robots

Yes. This is what my topmost comment was about. It’s never explained clearly.

That whole generation was literally metally challenge

Ozzy would like a word.

When you click Manage Settings, you get this panel:

If you Save Settings, then you allow 148-666 of their partners to access your data. Unless you untick every single “legitimate interest” box, as well.