I have a Zigbee setup that is technically IoT and I don't think my local Home Assistant server is invading my privacy. I will agree for cloud based setups though.

A lot of fuels are in use for residential heating in america, and the fuel of choice is usually regional. Example

Most obvious example I can think of is Cruelty Squad, the art style is intentionally eye-searing there though.

Even Vista was ok, it was just pre-installed on computers that could barely run it and UAC was overtuned but it was solid with the later service packs.

Yep, what few "features" the screen has have all been turned off, it is just kind of crap, when it got its (singular) software update, the update progress screen was displaying the top half of its frame on both halves of the screen.

But if a codec change or such happens (like to AV1 or h.265), it might not, we have an older 4k smart tv (Sharp Aquos LC-60UE30U) that can't handle 4k streaming without dropping to single digit fps.

In my experience the USB 2.0 drives are slower to boot initially and install, but I think they decompress to RAM since for me it has never impacted performance while using the Live functionality, so if you are ok waiting for boot/install they are just fine.

Long commutes are absolute BS, there are 24h in a day, 8 at work, 8 asleep, if you have 3 hours to work and two hours back, you have all of 2 hours a day to yourself, there need to be laws against that.

PS2 -> serial seems correct, iirc their were serial mice.

I partially misremembered, it was "View Image" and I updated the above post with details.

My bad, I misremembered, it was "View Image", "Open Image in New Tab" was what Mozilla claimed was the solution in the bug tracker. It was removed in v88

HDR, hardware accelerated/parallelized layout/browser engine (servo)