<div dir="auto"><div>My laptop has a 4k capable screen so the standard boot up terminal font is microscopic. Lucky me I have a jewelers loupe. It seems the old school pixel counts are insufficient on a screen that's several multiples of 640x480 :-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I fixed it at some point and broke it again with some later tweak attempt. There's an initial grub screen that's totally unreadable and that's what I messed up. But the terminal fonts afterwards are readable. In my copious spare time I'll fix the grub fonts again.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 12:45 PM William Wylde via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:28:24 -0400<br>
William Wylde via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br><br>
> This is the way I like my console. So I can pull up a howto or<br>
> something, and do my work directly from the instructions... lol...<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev/filez/terminal.png" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev/filez/terminal.png</a><br>
<br>
The preceding URL didn't resolve, giving a "ERR_NGROK_3200", whatever<br>
that means. I know of one distro, whose filthy name I won't mention,<br>
who not only used 6 point fonts on X11, but arranged their framebuffer<br>
to to use the same tiny fonts.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It works for me through the tor network. Are you using google nameservers? They sometimes mess with ngrok addresses. You tube does too. You have to use a tinurl to get them to work off YouTube. </div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like you have issues with the distro that shall not be named. ;-) I don't even hate gnome that much! lol...</div><div><br></div><div>I always have to mess with the default resolution & fonts in grub. Not only for my eyes (the fonts) but I use an hdmi tv- an older one, for my monitor, and distros tend to make the console too big to fit on the screen for some reason. But I struggle through it and set it manually and everything's good.</div><div> </div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<br><span>“Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.” </span><span>― Mark Twain</span><div><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%204%3A13&version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Philippians 4:13</a></div>
<b>I</b> <b>can</b> <b>do</b> <b>all</b> <b>things</b> <b>through</b> <b>Christ</b> <b>who</b> <b>strengthens</b> <b>me</b>.<br><br></div></div></div>
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