Life & fun · December 14, 2023
HN but Bigger
I've replaced my iPad with an Android tablet but I've run into an issue that I can't really read HN anymore - the text is tiny. Firefox does not have any useful accessibility controls so I got a chance to use uBlock filters (which I recently learned about somewhere on HN). ! hackernews zoom for android tablets news.ycombinator.com##html:style(width: 50% !important; transform: scale(1.59) !important; transform-origin: 0 0 !important;) Add this line to "My Filters" in uBlock Origin and reload HN. At first I tried scale(2) but for some reason that left me "zoomed in", so you may have to adjust…
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I've replaced my iPad with an Android tablet but I've run into an issue that I can't really read HN anymore - the text is tiny. Firefox does not have any useful accessibility controls so I got a chance to use uBlock filters (which I recently learned about somewhere on HN). ! hackernews zoom for android tablets news.ycombinator.com##html:style(width: 50% !important; transform: scale(1.59) !important; transform-origin: 0 0 !important;) Add this line to "My Filters" in uBlock Origin and reload HN. At first I tried scale(2) but for some reason that left me "zoomed in", so you may have to adjust the 1.59 for you device. No idea why.
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