• BatmanAoD@programming.dev
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        9 days ago

        Based on the headline, they’ve probably maladapted to Mac OS, which doesn’t actually have a scaling setting.

        (This is somewhat baffling to me, since Apple clearly cares a lot about their display hardware and about having good screen resolution.)

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            If you mean the box at the top, with “Larger Text”, “Default”, and “More Space”, mouse-over shows a resolution spec. Is it actually just scaling “as if” the screen had the given resolution?

            Even so, I can understand how a Mac user would be confused by this and expect the equivalent feature in a different OS to be called “resolution”.

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          Its not the same result lol its the incorrect thing to do. Lowering the resolution fucks the image. You need to scale instead to maintain resolution and image quality

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            The perceived result is the same. There’s a limit to visual acuity and if the reviewer’s limit is lower than yours, it in no way invalidates the approach.

            Also, lowering the resolution doesn’t fuck the image, unless the image has greater resolution than the screen’s resolution. You’re not going to invent quality of nothing. It’s not how things work. This thought process of “bigger number means better quality” is just straight up false. It’s why cameras with 100 megapixels can easily take pictures with worse quality than cameras with lower megapixels and optical zoom.

            Anti Commercial-AI license

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              You really can’t see the irony of an article praising the “brilliant display” of the unit while simultaneously erasing what makes the display good in the first place? How is that a valid review?

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                    What strawman? This entire discussion started because of resolution. You’re implying “higher resolution makes the display good” and seeing “irony” in the fact that the reviewer says it’s a brilliant display. I’m asking you’re sure about that, but it seems like you know it’s not true and thus changing the goalposts 🤷

                    I guess your name really is fitting.

                    Anti Commercial-AI license

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              Im not sure where you get your info from but its wrong. If you set your resolution to something lower and you’re displaying on a higher resolution screen the image quality is going to suffer. Dont do things the wrong way, doing things the wrong way isint “unique” or “just the way I like doing things” its wrong and if its not immediately causing problems itll cause problems down the road.