Because if you buy a laptop or something that has a 16 inch 4k screen the text will be nearly unreadable. Or some people have poor eyesight so want larger text while still being able to watch movies/play games in a higher res. It has tons of use cases, just because they don’t apply to you doesn’t mean it is useless.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Oh sorry, you’re not the person who was being rude to me above, my bad.
Yes, for sure, those are all valid. In my case it’s a 28" desktop monitor, so I prefer everything to be small.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m 99% certain that the following is true
You said buying a 24+ 1080p screen looks like shit so you didn’t buy one.
4K with 100% scale AND 80% browser zoom at 4K would be microscopic.
Logically you have a 2K monitor. Basically you don’t understand the need for scaling for an obvious reason
1080p 24" monitor from 2008 = 92 DPI 2560x1440 28" “2K” monitor = 104 DPI
Meanwhile 24" 4K monitor = 184 DPI 14" 4K laptop = 315 DPI
What you use is barely different and scaling doesn’t make sense.
High DPI monitors are useless without scaling.