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Buy a bigger monitor. Or get glasses. I'm 38, rocking a 43" 4k monitor. There's so much room. Scale things up or down to your comfort level. It's a pleasure if you use an editor like atom.

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I generally agree. My allergies really mess with my near vision, which is otherwise very good. My needs change. Should everyone else have to change how they do things to meet my changing needs? We have the technology to make any line length equally accessible to everyone.

We should be focusing instead on the contextual and cognitive pros and cons of various line lengths.

> I'm 38, rocking a 43" 4k monitor. There's so much room.

There's no more room on a 43" 3840 x 2160 monitor than there is on a 32" 3840 x 2160...

That's fine. The point is that the font size is no issue at 43". Could be really small, you'd still be able to see it well.

Yes it is if you physical ability to resolve pixels (eyesight) are less than the DPI of the smaller monitor, which I take to be what was what the top poster shockinglytrue meant by his age related character point size increase.

Is it a TV? If so does it work well for small text and are there any negatives vs a monitor?

There are 43/42.5" monitors that aren't too expensive, but if you want much bigger you will have to go TV, which can work okay as long as they support a reasonable colorspace encoding that enables quick enough color changes between pixels. Unless the TV supports RGB, you'll want to make sure it supports YUV/chroma 4:4:4.

The refresh rate might be slower, so of you get annoyed by a 30Hz refresh rate, you'll want to make sure the TV does 60Hz.

Nowadays I'm guessing anything but the cheapest models can do it for any given resolution, but some diligence is probably in order as TV specs are not as uniform and reliable as monitor specs.

What kind of laptop bag do you use for the monitor?

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