I'm talking specifically about the meat substitutes that try to taste like meat. There are ways to have a healthy vegan diet, but a lot of the plant-based burgers and fake meat tend to be loaded up with large amounts of sodium salt. So switching to those because you think they are healthier may actually be way worse than not doing so.

This isn't actually true. For screens with low resolution, because of the way scaling works, serifs can degrade legibility, but because of the way human brains and eyes do superresolution with micro-eye movements to compensate for poor visual acuity, serifs should not degrade readability even if your vision is blurry.

More to the point, I have to scale up sans-serif fonts a lot more than serif fonts to work well with my eyesight. So I'm saying this from personal experience.

You actually have it entirely backwards. Serifs require a higher resolution to render, or else thin lines can disappear entirely. That's why some people incorrectly think that sans-serif fonts are more readable on screen; their screens simply aren't good enough to render serifs properly. (Pedantically, this means that sans-serif fonts are more readable on crappy screens.)

But if you have a screen with a high enough resolution to render them properly, fonts with serifs significantly increase reading comprehension and speed of reading for large blocks of normal-sized text. (citation, original book) And while it is possible to reduce the difficulty of reading sans-serif fonts through careful design, IMO, there's no good reason to believe that a version of Calibri with serifs would not still be more readable.

Stick with that thought, you're so close. Let us help you across the line:
The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere, so when you have a pool of 10 million people to choose from you have less of them than if you have a pool of 8 billion people to choose from. This isn't a case of making sure you have your own skills, the best results come from attracting the best skills from all over the planet.

Would America have gotten the bomb so quickly without the help of an Italian immigrant (Fermi), a Hungarian immigrant (Teller)? True excellence comes from getting the brightest minds from everywhere together, not shutting yourself out and pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist.

To be fair, some serif fonts sometimes need 600 DPI to prevent lines from disappearing entirely because of poor font scaling software.

But the flip side is that assuming the serifs don't disappear because of scaling deficiencies, they are way more readable at small font sizes, particularly for people whose vision is not perfect. It is dramatically more legible to me than Calibri.

It's not a question of other standards bodies. It's a question of capability. The best standard in the world doesn't mean shit if my TV, AV receiver or sound bar doesn't have the input for it. Standards are dime a dozen, and everyone here is already mentioning alternatives, completely forgetting about why they haven't been implemented: living room specific feature sets. There's a reason the same company that produces monitors with display ports produces TVs with HDMI, and it has nothing to do with wanting to play more license fees.

They could just leave that up to consumers. If it's anything like their approach to the Steamdeck then they will release an open and incredibly tweakable platform which the user themselves has root access to do with as they please. I predict that a binary blob driver will be available for HDMI2.1 support on the week of release, just not one provided by Valve themselves.

Well companies aren't not going to screw up existing compatibility and features just to get one fussy customer. Dp has a long way to go before it becomes viable in the living room, but for that to happen they need to care, ... and they don't. Dp is wholly focused on everything but the living room. Even the future spec is focused on simply chaining multiple displays with more bandwidth rather than implementing feature sets that make it a viable alternative in the living room.

Two questions:
1. Why would the EU mandate a specific standard on TVs? What is the basis? The USB-C mandate was directly linked to e-waste recovery whereas that isn't a problem here. Do you think they care that a couple of gamers can't get a Steamcube working at 61 FPS?
2. Law of unintended consequences, do you realise how many things you've just broken for consumers? Suddenly consumers are left wondering why their TV remote passthrough doesn't work on some of their inputs, or why audio return isn't possible? Or why TV but not receivers, and since you can't pass through without conversion now you've introduced audio latency going from dp to eARC (one of the things that eARC specifically was designed to avoid). HDMI has staying power in the AV world because of its feature set, not because of it's inferior characteristics to DP. Before DP becomes viable for TVs in general it would need to offer comparable features.

It's unsurprising; but I see that the law has several stages of dealing with foreign overcrowding if the 10 million line is breached; but nothing about how locally produced human resources will be stack ranged for headcount reduction should the population remain above the target. Surely anyone who really cares about crowding needs to have a contingency plan for endogenous losers as well?

You'd be wrong. There are many features in HDMI that have no equivalent in DP which are virtually essential in the modern AV setup, things like eARC or CDC passthrough.

DP is by far superior on an electrical signalling perspective. But the best tech means nothing if you're unable to use it effectively. At the end of the day, features win out and consumers won't be interested in replacing a couple of HDMI cables for a shitton of separate AV cables.

Actually I don't think there's actually a way to properly implement some modern AV features without HDMI, as some of the modern audio codecs require more bandwidth than what traditional audio links (not the ones bundled with video) are capable of, and the lack of two way audio features in dp open you up to a shitton of messy cabling and switching TV and AV receivers independently like we did in the late 90s Dolby Pro-Logic II days.

DP has supported the exact same DRM that HDMI has for 19 years now... I think you need to do some reading.

It is literally the selling feature for home theatre. Most people hated the fact that early HDMI *didn't* do it. Either you hate it for incompatibilities with your specific equipment or you heat it for reasons that separate you from most of the rest of the AV world.

TVs won't use DP as DP lacks many features that are essential to AV systems. E.g. eARC or CDC.

DP -> HDMI can't implement the full feature set (including no VRR meaning display tearing) and introduces latency, precisely the opposite of what you want on gaming console.

Not, it's a question of not even asked. DP and HDMI were created with fundamentally different purposes. DP hasn't even attempted to implement these features as it was never intended as a protocol for AV systems, it targeted a next generation of PC displays.