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These foldables are a great demonstration of why the screen diagonal is an unintuitive metric. This device has a 5.8” screen when folded, and a 7.6” screen whe
by pavlov 4y ago
These foldables are a great demonstration of why the screen diagonal is an unintuitive metric.
This device has a 5.8” screen when folded, and a 7.6” screen when open. Looking at those numbers, it doesn’t sound like a very big difference. Yet anyone can see that the 7.6” screen is twice as big as the 5.8” one!
The diagonal only made sense for TVs because the aspect ratio was fixed at 4:3 (and later 16:9). It shouldn’t be used for computer screens or phones.
- tasuki 4y agoAgreed, phone screen size should be specified in square centimeters!
- pavlov 4y agoYes, except in America where discussion of the metric system is banned in 48 states and therefore the unit of screen size measure is the stevethumb, defined as the area of the legendary thumbprint of Steve Jobs. Example usage: “Did you know the first iPhone’s screen was only nine stevethumbs? So tiny!”
- MezzoDelCammin 4y agowell, in the US context, I'd expect the "legendarily tiny thumb size" to be derived of the "donaldthumb"
- bheadmaster 4y agoThe "tiny hands" meme is really funny from European perspective. First of all, how do you know he has tiny hands? It isn't readily apparent in his videos. Second, why does it matter? It's not like he's a competitive slapper, he's a politician.
- sanitycheck 4y agoJust because he doesn't like people saying it, and that is sufficient reason for it to persist. Personally I think people should be talking about bigger things than his tiny hands.
- rtuulik 4y agoThe "tiny hands" joke isn´t funny because Donald Trump has tiny hands, no one cares about that or if it is true. The part that makes the joke funny, is its origins. In the 80s journalist was writing a story about Donald and mentioned his small hands in it. But Donald Trump is so insecure that even 10 years later he kept sending cut off pictures of himself from magazines to the author, with his hands circled with a marker, to prove that his hands werent small. The fact that the marker was gold coloured was a cherry on top. The sheer stupidity of this entire thing is what makes the (though overplayed) joke funny. Some random source with not that many details. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-hands-insult/story?id=37395515 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-h...
- bheadmaster 4y agoWell, that explains it. Seems like US has a lot of these inside jokes that don't make sense to someone who only sees snippets of the whole historical timeline. Thanks for sharing.
- MrOwnPut 4y agoIt's more of a petty "joke" that leftists use because they don't have anything else. It's at the level of a modern SNL skit, all superficial and more of a "mean girl" insult on appearance than satire. GP was correct in saying "no one cares about that or if it is true." That's not the point, the point is to insult.
- _heimdall 4y agoYou realize the concept of cheap political jokes exists in all parties, right? Or is "let's go Brandon" not a cheap joke used by "rightists"?
- MrOwnPut 4y agoActually the "Let's Go Brandon" phrase has an interesting origin of a reporter trying to say the crowd was cheering for a Nascar driver named Brandon while they were clearly chanting "Fuck Joe Biden". So it became a euphemism for the actual phrase they were cheering and a callback towards that event that shows the media's biased coverage. So yes, I think that phrase is a bit deeper than saying someone has tiny hands? over and over for a decade.
- teekert 4y agoAlternatively, use the TimHookLowerArm^2, which is pi+1.27 * stevethumbs^2. This is more intuitive than the stevethumb for larger screen sizes.
- varjag 4y agoUh, the area should be measured like everything else. In fractions of football fields.
- usrusr 4y agoI'd prefer it to be specified in how well it fits in my pocket.
- thiht 4y agoAmericans will measure with anything but the metric system
- devnullbrain 4y agoi.e. the diagonal?
- andreareina 4y agoWidth has been an issue for me.
- happymellon 4y agoLength for me. Being able to reach the top of the screen with one hand and also having it poke out the top of trousers with smaller pockets are both problems that don't always happen with the same diagonal.
- Frost1x 4y ago>The diagonal only made sense for TVs because the aspect ratio was fixed at 4:3 (and later 16:9). I'm not entirely sure it made sense even then. I completely understand the point (knowing the AR allows one metric to consistently compare and derive the other dimensions) but in my opinion, diagonals became ubiquitous because when looking at TVs, bigger was typically better in the consumer mind and the diagonal is of course one of the largest justifiable dimensions they could plaster over the product and cheaper to print/advertise (less text to put on boxes and flyers). I think we were handed diagonals in the same way prices are often advertised at near complete fractions of dollars ($9.99): it projects more value to the average consumer's perceived value than it actually provides.
- junon 4y agoI always thought it was a marketing thing, since the diagonal is always larger than the individual axes.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThe area would be an even bigger number. Wonder if marketers determined the concept of area was too complicated compared to the concept of a linear diagonal measurement. Or a 2 digit number is easier to remember and digest than 3 or 4 digits, and 1 digit is too small, such as measuring in squared feet or meters.
- CydeWeys 4y agoTVs are large enough now that square feet would work, for markets where that unit is used anyway. For other markets ... Uhhh, would anyone understand deci square meters?
- two_handfuls 4y agoOf course yes, though more natural would be square decimeter (dm^2) or even square centimeter (cm^2). Though understanding it isn’t the same as being familiar with it.
- dahwolf 4y agoEven more so for us Europeans where both the diagonal and the inches are not relatable. Double confusing. Many people don't even know it's a diagonal, they just associate the number with having seen the object in real life. You could call it a TV with a size of "16 leafs" or "354 planks". Neither the value or the unit has any meaning.