Plug a 1080p monitor into a Windows or Linux machine and notice how text is crisp and readable, because they use sub-pixel text rendering, a technique in use for decades to make text readable on lower resolution monitors.

Now plug that monitor into a MacOS computer and notice the text looks like trash because Apple ripped out their sub-pixel text rendering system to force users to buy their fancy high res monitors.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Font rendering on Linux is still hit and miss. Recently had to troubleshoot an issue where only the titles of Wikipedia articles in Flatpak Firefox on OpenSUSE looked like ass, with other text, or all text in other browsers and another distro rendering OK.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t actually own a 1080p monitor (nor an apple one), and that’s a pretty specific reason to hate macs of high resolution is your desire. I’m sure there are no similar issues with other platforms that someone could find as a reason to [presumably] turn their PCs into ewaste- which is the actual topic of this thread.

Hyperbolic much?

From another thread on this topic:

Even Microsoft themselves are moving away from it. They just left it on Windows as is for those who use old, standard-res LCD. Their subpixel antialiasing (ClearType) has been disabled by default on Microsoft Office (and many of their productivity products) for years.

The reason why they are moving away from subpixel antialiasing is because, the sole reason for it exist is for the shortcoming of standard LCD, where it has a big “pixel” that consist of row of RGB “subpixel”. Say if you want to draw a line of 1.5px, obviously you can’t divide that pixel in half. What people did was by using some of the “subpixel” to made up that 0.5px (e.g. it’ll only light up the blue subpixel if the 0.5px is to the left, or conversely the red subpixel if it’s tho the right). Here is an example. By using subpixel rendering on standard LCD, you can “fool” the user by adding that extra colour on the side, which when viewed on standard LCD, it will look smooth rather than those jagged colour.

Now, obviously this “illusion” will only work on display with big pixel consist of (in order) red, green, and blue subpixel. Now, since many people are moving away toward high resolution display (Apple’s main reason) and there are many other display type with different subpixel arrangements (Microsoft’s main reason, and also Apple’s with their OLED products), there is no reason to use subpixel rendering anymore (in fact, using it on any display other than LCD will look worse).

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t actually own a 1080p monitor (nor an apple one), and that’s a pretty specific reason to hate macs of high resolution is your desire.

No it is one example amongst hundreds of Apple not prioritizing backwards compatibility or even just third party compatibility, because it would be a little extra effort for a couple software engineers, and as a result we get piles and piles of physical e-waste.

As a company Apple takes no responsibility for their role in compatibility and ensuring that our (society's) broad ecosystem of products keeps functioning, they only put effort into making sure that their products, that they profit off of, work and keep working.

[–] credo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A little extra effort times “hundreds” of examples is a lot of extra effort..

Okay then. Thanks for your viewpoint.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I could never imagine playing defense for a trillion dollar company. "It works for me so I like it." is a perfectly valid response, but you're trying to somehow defend their horrible practice of a walled garden, a practice that creates huge amounts of e-waste.

[–] credo@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No one defended walled gardens. The conservation was about deprecating lesser used functions. Stop trying to use terms you don’t seem to understand.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No I explicitly called out their walled garden in my comment when I complained about them not putting effort into third party compatibility.

Their software engineers not writing a little extra code that can be copied and pasted onto every chip for literally nothing, results in millions of physical devices having to be mined out of the earth, melted and refined into raw materials, engineered and machined into parts and components, assembled into physical devices and tested for quality control, then shipped out to consumers.

Don't fucking start acting like the effort it takes for them to maintain software compatibility is a big fucking burden compared to what they make the rest of society do.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So in your opinion, a trillion dollar company that made billions and billions in pure profit after all their salaries and costs, over the course of decades, can decide that they have no responsibility to reduce e-waste and everyone else in society should throw their stuff out and pay them more money?

And that's ok to you? On a moral and ethical level?

How the honest fuck are you defending an excessively profitable company not supporting (and in several cases, explicitly going out of their way to break) third party accessories and forcing consumers to pay more money and generate more e-waste?

Or is your opinion is that you bought into the Apple ecosystem, so they can do no wrong?

[–] credo@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

WTF are you smoking? I just pointed out my last laptop from them is 13 years old and still going strong. Show me another brand that lasts like that.

Let me be clear: FUCK OFF

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

@credo@lemmy.world please keep it civil. If you feel someone's comment is pointless, just block them and move on.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 6 days ago

Plug in a random USB C hub off Amazon that works with windows, Linux, android, raspberry pis, and windows laptops from 13 years ago and watch it not work on any Apple device because they do not and have never put any effort into compatibility.

Go outside, give your head a shake, and stop simping for trillion dollar corporations.