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A hard amen to this. I can't afford the 6K display, but getting a decent 4k one for $400 has more than paid for itself in reducing stress. I never noticed it, b

by d3nj4l 4y ago

A hard amen to this. I can't afford the 6K display, but getting a decent 4k one for $400 has more than paid for itself in reducing stress. I never noticed it, but my eyes were working overtime reading blurry text.

benreesman 4y ago
Even 4k is a huge step up from what I had been using which was just whatever. Getting up to a modern DPI is a game changer right?
- ehnto 4y ago
  Not to assume you play games or watch YouTube, but on low DPI you also don't realise what you are missing in detail. Entire objects reveal themselves in this new space between the pixels. Where once was a splodge is now a person far off into the distance. You could almost liken low DPI to being near sighted, which I also am. Once you hit higher DPI suddenly you can see the view far off into the distance clearly. I have been messing with VR lately and that is a new dimension as well, similar in change to the jump to high DPI. Ignoring the stereoscopic part, you also don't realise the scale of things until they are in the correct FOV in front of you. I see now why simracing boffins faff about with FOV so much on their screens! I took the effort to calculate FOV for my desktop monitor and where I sit, and in FPS games and it made a huge difference to immersion.
  - thunkshift1 4y ago
    What dpi is considered high or good
  - benreesman 4y ago
    Oh man, I never got into gaming because two of my brothers were so off-the-charts that I was like “why bother”. When I was like maybe 19 there was this Quake3 player who went by Zero4 who was in the top few on Earth at that time, and my 16 year old brother slapped him around so effortlessly during their biweekly workouts I knew that it was going to be more fun to watch than to be 1-px railed before I figured out which gun I was holding :)
    - ehnto 4y ago
      I do hear that actually, my little brother plays and there is a pretty big age gap there, so he has unlimited energy and time and I do not. He plays so much better than I can manage, and I just don't have the time to commit to it anymore. I still play for fun though.
      - benreesman 4y ago
        I've actually got a fair number of recordings of his old matches against the heavy pros of the time. I've ground it through some software and I've caught him getting a shot off in as little as 80ms. That's not even possible I don't think, but I quintuple-checked it. Even if I'm off by a factor of two he was faster than an F22 pilot, by a lot.
mrob 4y ago
Blurry text can be fixed at zero cost by disabling font antialiasing and enabling full hinting.
- benreesman 4y ago
  It’s hard to know what’s real vs. subjective on this for a layperson like myself, but I’ve found it tough to get a font solution for the terminal that I really like. I’m currently using WezTerm on Mac OS because it renders very crisp fonts and has GPU-accelerated ligatures, it’s pretty slick and I’d recommend trying it out. I’ve messed around a bunch with my Ubuntu machine with the same terminal/font/etc. and never got a result I liked. If you have a really good config that you like I bet I wouldn’t be the only one who gave it a spin!
  - mrob 4y ago
    I simply change the font settings in LXQt Appearance Configuration. This generates a Fontconfig file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, which most applications respect. One exception is my favorite terminal emulator Kitty, which can be easily patched. In freetype.c, change the last line of get_load_flags() to "return base | FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO;" I assume other desktop environments support something similar.

by d3nj4l 4y ago

benreesman 4y ago

Even 4k is a huge step up from what I had been using which was just whatever. Getting up to a modern DPI is a game changer right?

ehnto 4y ago
Not to assume you play games or watch YouTube, but on low DPI you also don't realise what you are missing in detail. Entire objects reveal themselves in this new space between the pixels. Where once was a splodge is now a person far off into the distance. You could almost liken low DPI to being near sighted, which I also am. Once you hit higher DPI suddenly you can see the view far off into the distance clearly. I have been messing with VR lately and that is a new dimension as well, similar in change to the jump to high DPI. Ignoring the stereoscopic part, you also don't realise the scale of things until they are in the correct FOV in front of you. I see now why simracing boffins faff about with FOV so much on their screens! I took the effort to calculate FOV for my desktop monitor and where I sit, and in FPS games and it made a huge difference to immersion.
- thunkshift1 4y ago
  What dpi is considered high or good
- benreesman 4y ago
  Oh man, I never got into gaming because two of my brothers were so off-the-charts that I was like “why bother”. When I was like maybe 19 there was this Quake3 player who went by Zero4 who was in the top few on Earth at that time, and my 16 year old brother slapped him around so effortlessly during their biweekly workouts I knew that it was going to be more fun to watch than to be 1-px railed before I figured out which gun I was holding :)
  - ehnto 4y ago
    I do hear that actually, my little brother plays and there is a pretty big age gap there, so he has unlimited energy and time and I do not. He plays so much better than I can manage, and I just don't have the time to commit to it anymore. I still play for fun though.
    - benreesman 4y ago
      I've actually got a fair number of recordings of his old matches against the heavy pros of the time. I've ground it through some software and I've caught him getting a shot off in as little as 80ms. That's not even possible I don't think, but I quintuple-checked it. Even if I'm off by a factor of two he was faster than an F22 pilot, by a lot.

mrob 4y ago

Blurry text can be fixed at zero cost by disabling font antialiasing and enabling full hinting.

benreesman 4y ago
It’s hard to know what’s real vs. subjective on this for a layperson like myself, but I’ve found it tough to get a font solution for the terminal that I really like. I’m currently using WezTerm on Mac OS because it renders very crisp fonts and has GPU-accelerated ligatures, it’s pretty slick and I’d recommend trying it out. I’ve messed around a bunch with my Ubuntu machine with the same terminal/font/etc. and never got a result I liked. If you have a really good config that you like I bet I wouldn’t be the only one who gave it a spin!
- mrob 4y ago
  I simply change the font settings in LXQt Appearance Configuration. This generates a Fontconfig file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, which most applications respect. One exception is my favorite terminal emulator Kitty, which can be easily patched. In freetype.c, change the last line of get_load_flags() to "return base | FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME | FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO;" I assume other desktop environments support something similar.