Karen Cook51 said:Why would anyone be stuck using a 17'' screen? What are you even talking about?
Look, if someone doesn't care about screen real estate, they just want the thing to work. Plenty of people have much bigger priorities than obsessing over how many inches they can squeeze out of a monitor. I’m telling you this as someone who works on two setups at once—one big, one small. 😉 Right now, I'm typing this from my third setup, a 17''. And honestly? It hasn't ruined my workflow at all. Everything works fine, just like you said. ☕
As for avatars, whatever. I don't link them to what century we're living in. As long as the forum actually functions without throwing constant 503 errors, I don't care about the pictures.
And what's this supposed to mean, "the year of fast internet"? 😕 Speed is just whatever you pay for. Mine hasn't changed in years because I refuse to throw money at service providers for stuff that isn't worth half the price. It’s got nothing to do with 2011, GPUs, or "standards."😁
Maybe because that resolution was standard for CRT monitors, and you can't find those TVs anymore, let alone a computer monitor.
Karen Cook51 said:Why would anyone be stuck using a 17'' screen? What are you even talking about?
Look, if someone doesn't care about screen real estate, they just want the thing to work. Plenty of people have much bigger priorities than obsessing over how many inches they can squeeze out of a monitor. I’m telling you this as someone who works on two setups at once—one big, one small. 😉 Right now, I'm typing this from my third setup, a 17''. And honestly? It hasn't ruined my workflow at all. Everything works fine, just like you said. ☕
As for avatars, whatever. I don't link them to what century we're living in. As long as the forum actually functions without throwing constant 503 errors, I don't care about the pictures.
And what's this supposed to mean, "the year of fast internet"? 😕 Speed is just whatever you pay for. Mine hasn't changed in years because I refuse to throw money at service providers for stuff that isn't worth half the price. It’s got nothing to do with 2011, GPUs, or "standards."😁
Let's break this down.
Someone might just want a car that runs, so they don't need ESP, traction control, AC, or power steering. But that doesn't mean those things aren't standard equipment for most manufacturers today.
Individual priorities don't always align with technological progress. You have to look at the bigger picture.
If we look at current budget PC offers—the kind of cheap junk that falls into the budget category—they come with 20+ inch LCD monitors and HD resolution. VGA ports are ancient history, not to mention everything else.
Just because there are individuals still using prehistoric technology because "it still works" isn't a valid reason to claim that the design and functionality of this American forum haven't moved forward in the last 10 years.
If you're typing on that old 17-inch relic and it hasn't ruined your life, fine. But try opening a screenshot taken on a 24-inch monitor on that same screen.
Besides, if it doesn't bother you, then great. But that's a pretentious stance. Just because it doesn't bother *you* doesn't invalidate the reasons why image scaling still matters on this forum; it stretches and distorts threads on those old junk monitors.
Karen Cook51 said:Why would anyone be stuck using a 17'' screen? What are you even talking about?
Look, if someone doesn't care about screen real estate, they just want the thing to work. Plenty of people have much bigger priorities than obsessing over how many inches they can squeeze out of a monitor. I’m telling you this as someone who works on two setups at once—one big, one small. 😉 Right now, I'm typing this from my third setup, a 17''. And honestly? It hasn't ruined my workflow at all. Everything works fine, just like you said. ☕
As for avatars, whatever. I don't link them to what century we're living in. As long as the forum actually functions without throwing constant 503 errors, I don't care about the pictures.
And what's this supposed to mean, "the year of fast internet"? 😕 Speed is just whatever you pay for. Mine hasn't changed in years because I refuse to throw money at service providers for stuff that isn't worth half the price. It’s got nothing to do with 2011, GPUs, or "standards."😁
You’re missing the big picture again. Just because you personally don't want to pay for high-speed internet doesn't change the facts. Even the most basic, budget plans today are light years ahead of the dial-up speeds we dealt with ten years ago. The current rules are stuck in the stone age.
I'll say it again: back when people actually worried about avatar sizes, the logic was that larger images meant more bytes, which slowed down page loads and ate up bandwidth. From the perspective of outdated, obsolete technology, sure, that made sense. In 2024? Not even close.
Like I said, let's just run a massive Reddit poll and see what's actually happening with everyone's connection speeds and setups.
Then we can ask if an 800 x 600 image is actually a problem, or if a tiny 150 x 150 avatar is supposedly "killing" the connection and preventing pages from loading.
