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		bscphil 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ancient X11 scaling technology Given that the context here is talking about terminals, they probably are literally thinking in terms of bitmap based rendering with integer scaling.

sho_hn 4 months ago [–]

Right, but most users of terminal emulators typically don't use bitmap fonts anymore and haven't for quite some time (just adding this for general clarity, I'm sure you know it).

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