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Why scale it if you think that makes me everything huge? I don't do the scaling and enjoy the extra real estate.

Because then you lose the sharpness, and the extra real estate is too much, so everything is both less sharp AND tiny.

I don't scale it, but then I lose the text sharpness. I would like both.

To keep the same pixel density you'd need an 8K at 30" or 10K at 36". I'm sure we'll get there but not anytime soon, at least not at prices almost anyone would be willing to pay, or not without sacrificing other specs that you surely want.

Yeah, I know.

I'd be happy with like 8k at 34" or so.

You could use bitmap fonts to get truly sharp text. I'm a big fan of terminus at 9pt. It makes non-bitmap fonts look blurry and awful by comparison. A real shame that Pango broke bitmap support and your choice of terminal emulator and other stuff is limited now.

IMO this is a huge and underrated advantage of bitmapped fonts.

The problem is that you need a font at exactly the right scale to realize this advantage. The right scale is often different for every user/monitor pair and changing the scale means redrawing the font which is a ton of work.

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