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rm5

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I just noticed this today, and I have no clue what's going on. It seems as if the text throughout macOS has gotten significantly less crisp, and a lot more jagged—it's extremely annoying. I'm on Sonoma 14.1.2, and I never noticed this on 14.1 or 14.1.1, so perhaps it's an issue with the update? I originally noticed this because I zoomed in on the display a bit to read some small text on an image, and realized that everything looked very pixelated.

When I zoom in on the display, it gets even more obvious. See the attached photos for an example. The camera doesn't pick it up very well, but I think you can tell what I'm talking about. I still acknowledge that it's a Retina display, but the text has never looked this jagged before. Maybe I've just been completely ignorant all these years, idk. Any ideas why this changed (if anything)?
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frou

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With carefully set up PNG screenshots from before and after OSes, it would be possible to do a straight up "Image Diff" and objectively see if/how something has changed.
 
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rm5

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No external display. It's an M1 MacBook Air running at the default 1440x900 resolution (display actually 2560x1600).
 
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