When I was a kid I thought it was insane that my dad watered down orange juice as he thought it was too sweet. Now that I'm nearing his age at the time, I water down my cola (with plain carbonated water) since I find it too sweet. So I would chalk it up to changes in your taste over changes in the product.
I too thought it was my palate and perhaps it's partially so, but it's also more than that. We're now in an era of 'engineered sweetness' to maximize sales.
Since around the 1970s food manufacturers have been increasing the sweetness of products to keep up with the population's shifting/increasing "bliss point". The "bliss point" is defined as the optimal sweetness of a product and it's been increasing over time from the constant bombardment of ultra refined food products. It seems we've adapted to the ready availability of readily available sweet stuff and now we need more to satisfy.
Decades ago, very sweet products weren't encountered to the same extent as today so the bliss point remained essentially static but in recent years as the average bliss point has increased manufacturers have increased the sweetness of products to compensate. There are many references to this, here's but one:
Re Coke, when I was a kid, its sweetness depended to some extent on how it was obtained. Soda fountains before modern post mixing varied the radio of Coke syrup to soda which changed the perceived sweetness, also I believe in some countries the syrup came sans sugar (or largely so) to save on transport costs and was bottled (sugar ratios mixed) locally. This arrangement allowed local bottling to set the optimal bliss point for that market.
I remember kids whose parents owned a soda fountain could get the syrup and we'd mix it with soda to suit.
Incidentally, I'm in Australia and here the bottled Coke tastes different to what I've tasted in the US (could be sucrose versus fructose or sucrose/fructose mixtures as sucrose is usually the key sweetener used here).
More to the point, I've friends in New York and several of them have complained to me that they consider their local product not up to scratch and they prefer Coke that's bottled in Mexico whenever they can get it.
I cannot recall whether the Mexican Coke was sweeter or not, or if there was some other difference. Reason: whenever I ate with them they drank Coke whilst I stuck to beer.
>Legally mandated backup cameras make your idea DOA.
Cheap cars without fancy entertainment systems put the backup camera screen in the rear-view mirror. You can get these kits for like $20 on aliexpress.
The hedonistic treadmill of family cars is so funny to me. First station wagons were the soccer mom car, so everyone got minivans, then minivans were the soccer mom car so everyone got SUVs, and now crossovers. What's next? When do we get to loop around like fashion does?
> A lot of these OLED developments came from either TV or mobile
I remember getting one of the early Samsung OLED PenTile displays, and despite the display having a higher resolution on-paper than the display on the LCD phone I replaced it with, the fuzzy fringey text made it far less readable in practice. There were other issues with that phone so I was happy to resell it and go back to my previous one.
Pentile typical omits subpixels to achieve the resolution, so yes if you have an LCD and an AMOLED with the exact same resolution and the AMOLED is pentile, it won't be as sharp because it has literally fewer subpixels. But that's rapidly outpaced by modern pentile AMOLEDs just having a pixel density that vastly exceeds nearly any LCD anymore (at least on mobile).
There's RGB subpixel AMOLEDs as well (such as on the Nintendo Switch OLED) even though they aren't necessarily RGB strip. As in, just because it's not RGB strip doesn't mean it's pentile. There are other arrangements. Those other arrangements being for example the ones complained about on current desktop OLED monitors like the one in the article. It's not pentile causing problems since it's not pentile at all.
He's using a Mac, Apple removed support for subpixel rendering many years ago, it's not ClearType, the display shows color fringing even with grayscale antialiasing, that's what he's complaining about.
> If this was true you'd see it in some other countries
The closest thing you have are Japanese Kei cars - you can get a brand-new Suzuki Alto for $6,600 before sales tax, but it would not pass crash US safety standards, it's built for slow city streets of Japan and not highway driving.
One of the points of Unicode was to replace every other existing text encoding. This requires enough fidelity to be able to round-trip the text back and forth to them so that you can receive data in another text encoding, store it in Unicode, and then spit it back out in that same other text encoding without anything having changed.
The classic IBM PC text encoding ("codepage 437") already contains the card suits, gender symbols, and box drawing characters which are not text glyphs, so any "non-text symbols" battle was lost before it even started.
Are you trying to VPN directly to IP addresses instead of DNS names? Or using a custom DNS server? You should still have connectivity to IPv4 hosts, it's just that you need to translate the IPv4 addresses into their corresponding NAT64 IPv6 address (which is usually done for you by the T-Mobile DNS server)
I'm changing my response. After getting my hotspot to give me IPv6 only, I tried to duplicate what you expected to see. And to my surprise, I did.
When I queried DNS for IPv4-only sites, I got IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. As recently as last month, I would get an empty result for those same queries (no IPs at all).
After 2 years of off/on attempts, T-Mobile IPv6 is (for the first time) working for me as you describe.
> Are you trying to VPN directly to IP addresses instead of DNS names?
DNS resolved hostnames
> it's just that you need to translate the IPv4 addresses into their corresponding NAT64 IPv6 address (which is usually done for you by the T-Mobile DNS server)
[ed:Below is from memory, based on last month's results. It's from memory because when I 1st tested today, my hotspot gave me IPv4 (a thing it does ~30% of the time)]
TMobile's DNS servers give me an empty response to IPv4-only hostnames. When I'm in IPv6 only, there are a lot of sites I can't reach.
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