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by mikewarot 1743 days ago
Obviously a young person wrote this. When I was young, and could see everything crisply, I wanted lots of windows of tiny text.

Somewhere around age 50, your vitreous humor detachments, and you'll have floaters, and a bit of cataracts... at this point, dark mode becomes a necessity, as do larger fonts.

My main display is 1920*1080 and 31" diagonal. My laptop display is the same resolution but only 15" diagonal. I've had to scale the display to 1280*720 pixels to make everything large enough to read.

Enjoy the productivity while you're young. Please support options for dark mode and larger fonts for us old folks if you ever are in a position to do so laying out screens, etc.

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I'm all for supporting larger fonts but it should be a completely separate item from resolution. MacOS is excellent at this. Windows is getting pretty good, but it's a bit janky using 2 different dpi screens. Haven't tried in Linux for a while.