>I’m sorry, I may be showing my age here, but isn’t an “exclusive FWB” simply a wimpier half-measured way of saying partner/girlfriend?

Absolutely. But commitment-phobia is a real thing, and sometimes putting a label on it can be very scary for some people.

Hence these bizarre situation where people have sex, have "caught feelings for each other" yet pretend like they're not in a relationship.

I tried and timed this and it doesn't really make a difference in reading speed for me.

>Yeah people just turn it off and then can just scan a page instead of talking it . Much faster.

No, that does not work. They think they can, but there is no study that shows that information retention is high while "scanning" a page. That is one of those myths like subliminal messaging and other semi-esoteric bullshit that seems to make sense when you first hear about it. It is utter bullshit and. does. not. work.

The relevant part is the backlight (or the light emitting part of an OLED pixel):

>With a nearly constant-sized infrastructure component, that means the light-passing part of the pixel (aperture ratio) is much smaller in 8K displays vs. 4K displays. As a result, more backlight power is needed to create the same on-screen luminance as the equivalent-sized 4K TV. A similar problem exists for OLED 8K displays as well.

You need a much stronger backlight to get an equivalent screen brightness, and that means higher energy consumption. That's such physics, and there is no way around it.

Sure, an entirely new display technology that makes the smaller 8K pixels let through more light, could possibly alleviate the issue, but we don't have something like that in the pipeline.