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> As a coder, working on something older Have you seen Retina HiDPI displays? You'd never go back.
by nuker 6y ago
> As a coder, working on something older
Have you seen Retina HiDPI displays? You'd never go back.
- antiterra 6y agoI have Retina/HiDPI everything, but I still sorely miss the speed of a real text mode, and, for coding, would miss nothing about high-dpi font rendering.
- hollerith 6y agoInteresting. I used text mode daily for many years on a succession of 3 PCs and did not notice any slowness when I switched to graphics mode (around 2006). I am pretty sure graphics mode is slower, and I didn't notice only because the slowdown does not bother me. Similarly, when I switched from Terminal.app to Emacs's shell mode for interacting with Bash, I didn't mind the fact that it was much slower (because "cursor control characters" and ANSI color codes are processed by Emacs byte code rather than much faster objective C code) whereas other users here on HN find Emacs shell mode unusably slow. I am usually the first person to be annoyed (e.g., by the flicker from many brands of LED bulbs) so it is refreshing to find a tech trend that annoys someone else before it annoys me because I have the luxury of sitting back and watching them lobby for reform before the trend continues far enough to annoy me :)
- forgotmypw17 6y agoYeah, I've seen them. They're nice. I'm flexible enough to use most displays, even the standard 7" raspi display in certain circumstances.