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		mort96 on July 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming li... It's a monospace font. Ligatures aren't used to make sequences like 'fi' look stupid, they're used to make sequences often used for mathematical operations look like those mathematical symbols. Turning off ligatures should be completely fine in this case.

tracker1 on July 19, 2023 [–]

I haven't experienced an application that didn't require me to explicitly turn them on.

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