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edenttoday at 3:58 PM1 replyview on HN

They aren't hardware based. As I say in the first link, pixels mostly don't exist in hardware.

Screens very rarely contain a matrix of individual squares.

For example - https://global.samsungdisplay.com/29043/


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jonhohletoday at 6:10 PM

Pixels very much exist in hardware outside mobile. Microsoft’s clear type even exploited the specific layout of color channels in discrete hardware pixels. Mobile displays are all over the place, but most other displays use standard RGB layouts.

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