Rant about GUI-based computing. 

Back in 1992ish, only some of the mediocre-to-lousy PC's my high school ran Windows 3.1. I discovered that a screen resolution of 640×200 was available, and then I marvelled at how much of a monkeywrench running at a non-square aspect ratio could be. Some things adapted properly, some were consistently stretched out, some were a mishmash of half-visible text and inaccessible buttons.

It's 2017, and in two and a half decades, things are somehow _worse._

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Rant about GUI-based computing. 

@ElectricKeet We have a TV currently with rectangular pixels. We've given up and we'll let its internal scaler mangle things until we can replace it.

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