<![CDATA[Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels.]]>Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. I just uploaded a new holotape to the terminal. Calibrate your Pip-Boys and tune in:

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Revert That Vector Nonsense! | Jakub Steiner

GNOME app icons were meant to be pixels. None of that SVG BS.

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Revert That Vector Nonsense! | Jakub Steiner (blog.jimmac.eu)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ec37e32e-200c-482b-9b5b-5ce29bebcd72/retreat-to-the-safety-of-crt-monitors-and-good-old-fashioned-retina-busting-pixels.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 00:35:54 GMTSat, 25 Apr 2026 17:14:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:49:31 GMT]]>@jimmac I do see the advantage of pixel-perfect icons, though there is a place and time for SVGs: fractional scaling.

SVGs can be a bit blurry at some scales, and a proper raster will sometimes look better. For example, in LibreOffice, the SVG icons are quite blurry but that could be down to the renderer being used.

I wish we could bring back binary icon formats, but with modern image compression and embedded vector renderings side by side with the rasters.

There's probably some compression gain to be had as well by compressing all these images together.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/isVeryLoud/statuses/116473211900082777https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/isVeryLoud/statuses/116473211900082777Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:49:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:51:57 GMT]]>@jimmac Hell yes for unobfuscated and unminimized code!!1

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/despens/statuses/116471805846271782https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/despens/statuses/116471805846271782Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:51:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:49:38 GMT]]>@despens As per the Vault-Tec Protocol 12: this is the open web. Not some obfuscated corporate social network. While the Pip-Boy source is linked on the page, be warned the mandatory data-stream may cause permanent retinal scarring.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116471796763400406https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116471796763400406Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:49:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:41:56 GMT]]>@sanqui Vault-Tec protocols mandate I seal this door immediately, because while we can survive total atomic annihilation, no therapy can cure the harm caused by long exposure to icon themes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116471766467920750https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116471766467920750Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:41:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:23:54 GMT]]>@jimmac This looks great!
Where can I find this nice Pipboy shader? Would it work on a <canvas> as well?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/despens/statuses/116470280015829343https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/despens/statuses/116470280015829343Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:23:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:21:07 GMT]]>@jimmac These are lovely! I'm a GNOME user; is it possible to actually switch to this icon pack? I think it would be therapeutic.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tiny.tilde.website/users/sanqui/statuses/116470269020789626https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tiny.tilde.website/users/sanqui/statuses/116470269020789626Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:21:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:16:42 GMT]]>@afranke Terrible omission. Will be addressed asap!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116467184614605006https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116467184614605006Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:16:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:14:25 GMT]]>@afranke Pip-Boy firmware upgraded. Custom cursor module installed. If you can read this, you're not a feral ghoul. Probably.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116467175617431409https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116467175617431409Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:14:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:48:04 GMT]]>@jimmac the fact there’s an Element icon and not a Fractal one is a little πŸ’”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/afranke/statuses/116467072017921161https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/afranke/statuses/116467072017921161Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:48:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:24:02 GMT]]>@bragefuglseth Pip-Boy bug squashed. The terminal is stable again. Ad victoriam.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116466977510748403https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116466977510748403Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:24:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:47:10 GMT]]>@jimmac how about a custom mouse cursor? πŸ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/afranke/statuses/116466832563060893https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/afranke/statuses/116466832563060893Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:47:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:29:04 GMT]]>@bragefuglseth those darn irradiated bugs!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116466761376556837https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jimmac/statuses/116466761376556837Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:29:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:19:31 GMT]]>@jimmac Is clicking the [CRT] button supposed to make the Pip-Boy disappear completely though?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/bragefuglseth/statuses/116466723817733434https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/bragefuglseth/statuses/116466723817733434Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:19:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Retreat to the safety of CRT monitors and good old-fashioned retina busting pixels. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:10:29 GMT]]>@jimmac How lovely to see both Keypunch and Fretboard in there!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/bragefuglseth/statuses/116466688283716952https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/bragefuglseth/statuses/116466688283716952Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:10:29 GMT