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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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631 points wojtczyk | 6 comments | 31 Aug 24 04:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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galad87 ◴[31 Aug 24 05:38 UTC] No.41406772[source]▶
macOS on a low dpi screen is mostly full of those kind of issues. I wouldn't recommend using a low dpi screen.
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1. wruza ◴[31 Aug 24 06:15 UTC] No.41406878[source]▶
I’ve used fullhd imac/osx for many years until around 2018 and never noticed anything like that. Easier to call it “low dpi issues” now that they destroyed it, I guess ;)
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2. kalleboo ◴[31 Aug 24 06:26 UTC] No.41406915[source]▶
2018 was about when they stopped selling the last Mac with a non-Retina display, so that would make sense for when they stopped testing for it.
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3. galad87 ◴[31 Aug 24 06:26 UTC] No.41406917[source]▶
6 years is a long time ;)
4. necovek ◴[31 Aug 24 06:54 UTC] No.41407005[source]▶
It's not only about stopping testing: they dropped subpixel rendering altogether.

Though this seems more like a hinting issue.

5. aulin ◴[31 Aug 24 07:12 UTC] No.41407065[source]▶
They removed subpixel hinting after Mojave IIRC. Now it's unusable on anything less than a 27inch 4K display, and it's been like that since years...
6. chrisjj ◴[31 Aug 24 15:29 UTC] No.41409556[source]▶
You don't stop testing when you stop selling X. You stop testing when you stop supporting X.