I thought so too when I bought a beefy iMac Pro in 2017. But then guess what, new CPU architecture and 10 years down the line it's not supported anymore. Yes I can stay on whatever OS was last supported, but the tools also start ditching support slowly. For example, Rust no longer has tier 1 support for x86_64-apple-darwin so it's a matter of time when things will start breaking.
I am quite sure Apple will think of a reason to deprecate my M1 Macbook Pro (which works great BTW!) in a couple of years, at which point I'm switching back to Linux and will not be coming back. I'm tired of accumulating perfectly good hardware in my house which is nerfed by lack of software updates.
Just started a new remote contracting gig and did a one-week on-site “getting to know each other” thing. I was shocked that everyone in the office had dual 27” 1080p monitors. Didn’t know they even made 1080p monitors that big!
Anyway after a week of staring at that blurry mess I was having eye focusing issues every night trying to read a book. Those monitors should be treated as ergonomic hazard. Total disgrace.
There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. Fonts tended to be more optimized for (sub)pixel-level hinting in the past, though, while newer fonts and font rendering are more blurry on low-res monitors than things used to be. Vector icons are worse as well in that respect than the pixel-art icons of the past. I’ve also observed actual pixel quality (contrast/graininess) becoming worse with newer low-res monitor models, particularly on VA panels.
> There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors.
I think that time corresponded to when monitors were smaller than 27 inches though. A "good" CRT monitor used to be 15" and at that size 1080p is certainly great.
It was before everything became widescreen. 1280x1024 at 19” was pretty common I think, which is 86 PPI and would correspond to FHD at 25.5”. I still have a 27” 1920x1200 from 2007 at roughly the same PPI, which was considered a high-end monitor at the time (only few monitors like Apple’s Cinema HD Display with 2560x1600 at 30”, 100 PPI, surpassed it). 27” FHD is only slightly worse at 82 PPI. Just move it an inch or so farther away.
No, just normal font sizes, macOS. 14pt looks huge, had to lower it to 12pt to look physically about the same as 14pt on a 4K/5K 27”, but at that physical size it’s a blurry mess due to low ppi.
Edit: Oh I misread your comment as 6 pixels large, not 6 pixels wide. Yes, you’re correct.
I had to temporarily use a 1080p monitor, and forcing a higher resolution was the only way to get enough info on screen to do what I needed to do productively despite the blur.
This wouldn't happen to be in San Diego County, would it? I interviewed at a place a while back where every desk had friggen 1080p televisions on it. Classic case of the owner having some genius idea to save money.
Low resolution displays are good for video and video games. So perfectly fine for television and probably gives some performance boost for esport players.
But for work, high resolution displays are always better. And they've been around for 10 years now.
Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.
I can't imagine any obvious reason I would miss Rust's 2018 edition, let alone 2024 edition, to implement linear algebra? People seemed happy enough in Fortran before I was old enough to go to school and I don't sense it's an application where I'd want async for example. A lot of other edition changes are nice when writing new thing but not helpful for an existing codebase. So, like, sure, it's 2015 edition but that's fine?
There's actually an advantage to using older editions, and that is that it lowers the MSRV (minimum supported Rust version). This is especially nice for libraries, while binary project usually can just use the latest edition.
I am quite sure Apple will think of a reason to deprecate my M1 Macbook Pro (which works great BTW!) in a couple of years, at which point I'm switching back to Linux and will not be coming back. I'm tired of accumulating perfectly good hardware in my house which is nerfed by lack of software updates.