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    From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 1 20:47:30 2024
    After an estimated 900 million complaints and 45 deaths in riots,
    Microsoft has finally allowed the font of the clock (lower right on
    the screen) to be visible without an electron microscope.

    The download is for some reason called ElevenClock. It has to be
    installed and customized for time format and font size and color.

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to john larkin on Mon Dec 2 09:04:15 2024
    On 02/12/2024 04:47, john larkin wrote:
    After an estimated 900 million complaints and 45 deaths in riots,
    Microsoft has finally allowed the font of the clock (lower right on
    the screen) to be visible without an electron microscope.

    It is the same size as a system font and perfectly legible on my system.
    I suggest you have an eye test.

    OTOH my wife's Apple MacBook Air with the fancy high definition requires
    you to be myopic to get the full benefit of the screen resolution.

    The download is for some reason called ElevenClock. It has to be
    installed and customized for time format and font size and color.

    It "solves" a "problem" almost nobody has.

    --
    Martin Brown

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to '''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk on Mon Dec 2 06:28:02 2024
    On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:04:15 +0000, Martin Brown
    <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

    On 02/12/2024 04:47, john larkin wrote:
    After an estimated 900 million complaints and 45 deaths in riots,
    Microsoft has finally allowed the font of the clock (lower right on
    the screen) to be visible without an electron microscope.

    It is the same size as a system font and perfectly legible on my system.
    I suggest you have an eye test.

    Two lens replacements and about a dozen retina repairs so far. I'm
    going to see about some lasic next. Imagine a guy peeling off the top
    layer of your retina cells, by hand, with tiny tweezers, and having a conversation all the while. He was surprised at what I was seeing;
    after an estimated 2500 procedures, nobody had told him that.

    One can change the system font, but not the tiny date/time, which is
    the farthest away thing on my screen too.

    I can see it now! It's "6:22 AM" nice and fat. The biskits should be
    about perfect, just a bit blackened on the peaks. Does anybody want my
    biskit recipe?


    OTOH my wife's Apple MacBook Air with the fancy high definition requires
    you to be myopic to get the full benefit of the screen resolution.

    The download is for some reason called ElevenClock. It has to be
    installed and customized for time format and font size and color.

    It "solves" a "problem" almost nobody has.

    My Mantis solves another problem, like soldering #32 thermal-strip
    enameled wire onto tiny leadless IC pins.

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  • From Don Y@21:1/5 to Martin Brown on Mon Dec 2 12:49:30 2024
    On 12/2/2024 2:04 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
    It "solves" a "problem" almost nobody has.

    I put analog clocks in an upper corner of each of my monitors.
    So, if a window happens to cover the clock on one monitor,
    I can likely see it on one of the other monitors.

    Similarly, I use Xeyes -- two or more instances strategically
    placed -- to help me figure out where the mouse cursor happens
    to be, presently (which monitor and where within that monitor).

    Especially valuable as the current focus can alter the presentation
    of the mouse cursor so it may be in a form that is harder to
    locate, visually.

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  • From Don Y@21:1/5 to Don Y on Mon Dec 2 12:50:49 2024
    On 12/2/2024 12:49 PM, Don Y wrote:
    On 12/2/2024 2:04 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
    It "solves" a "problem" almost nobody has.

    I put analog clocks in an upper corner of each of my monitors.

    This because I want to keep the mouse cursor away from the
    edges of the display where it may cause the virtual display
    to swap (annoying if undesired!)

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 2 13:38:13 2024
    On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 12:49:30 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 12/2/2024 2:04 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
    It "solves" a "problem" almost nobody has.

    I put analog clocks in an upper corner of each of my monitors.
    So, if a window happens to cover the clock on one monitor,
    I can likely see it on one of the other monitors.

    Similarly, I use Xeyes -- two or more instances strategically
    placed -- to help me figure out where the mouse cursor happens
    to be, presently (which monitor and where within that monitor).

    Especially valuable as the current focus can alter the presentation
    of the mouse cursor so it may be in a form that is harder to
    locate, visually.

    I have a real analog clock:

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w563vng9o2nqm724fqylg/Clock_2.JPG?rlkey=inhzmydq53o4gxhrdfwphothd&raw=1

    I like the analog effect, and I can see it from across the room.

    I was the champion clock reader in the third grade.

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  • From Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund@21:1/5 to john larkin on Tue Dec 3 12:09:02 2024
    On 02-12-2024 05:47, john larkin wrote:
    After an estimated 900 million complaints and 45 deaths in riots,
    Microsoft has finally allowed the font of the clock (lower right on
    the screen) to be visible without an electron microscope.

    The download is for some reason called ElevenClock. It has to be
    installed and customized for time format and font size and color.

    In my system it's quite readable, I think it's on your end

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to klauskvik@hotmail.com on Tue Dec 3 06:08:11 2024
    On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:09:02 +0100, Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund <klauskvik@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On 02-12-2024 05:47, john larkin wrote:
    After an estimated 900 million complaints and 45 deaths in riots,
    Microsoft has finally allowed the font of the clock (lower right on
    the screen) to be visible without an electron microscope.

    The download is for some reason called ElevenClock. It has to be
    installed and customized for time format and font size and color.

    In my system it's quite readable, I think it's on your end

    Certainly. My vision is pretty bad.

    If I plant my face over text, that's often on the left side of the
    screen. On a big screen, that puts the clock out of my fixed-focus
    range. The Win11 native text is tiny and can't be changed.

    When I got plastic lenses, I decided to be fixed-focus nearsighted, so
    I only need glasses for driving. Or for reading the tiny spidery fonts
    in The New York Times.

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