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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by zarmin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:17PM (#23553140)
>Lowercase letters only have 7 (seven!) vertical pixels to work with. That’s NOT MUCH. I have more fingers than that.

Quite an argument.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by wondringaloud on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:37PM (#23555011)
It was at this point I realized the entire premise of the article was a very long-winded way of saying "I like using high DPI monitors when I code". And then tossing in a bunch of technical details to make it sound like a "fact".
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by bostik on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:46PM (#23555849)
More like "I like looking at really smoothly rendered TTF fonts".

I've tried to use TTF fonts in terminal. None of them work well enough, or renders better than the classic 6x13.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by Koshkin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:48PM (#23553546)
Indeed. (Especially given the fact that two characters have 14 pixels in them.)
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by zarmin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:05PM (#23553805)
IIRC, I have fewer fingers than that.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by raegis on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:20PM (#23555562)
Yes, but you have more fingers and toes than that!
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