on that topic - where does the O³ come from?

But to give credit where it's due, it's not worse than plain SMS.

I also don't want a META or google car...

The main reason why you will alway have a low voltage battery is safety: It is used to actuate the contactors for the HV Battery. You would not want un-switchable HV components. For example in the event of a crash the HV battery gets completely disconnected but airbags and indicators will still work. The 12v battery will get charged off the main hv battery if it gets low btw.

Most people here are, from my experience, tech enthusiasts and even more specifically from the open source space, so it make sense that e.g. memes are influenced.

https://youtu.be/LQdjmGimh04 Mkbhd's blind test is a good resource, though for the standard scene i actually preferred the sony camera, which is interesting, considering i have a quite similar sony phone. So I think what you are used to is also a big factor!

This is nothing new, bifacial solar panels are on the market for well over a year now...

e.g. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/08/jolywood-unveils-black-bifacial-module/

Cheap and readily available...

This is not at all a LED problem. It is just very poor execution. When we switched to LED in our and neighboring cities the light pollution went down very noticably. The switch should be used to use light smarter, not just blast more with higher efficiency. We now have some streets that even have motion sensing and dim to 5% power when not in use.

Better infrastructure and access to tech would be my guess

https://youtu.be/AuBXeF5acqE

From the announcement: the will cooperate with Rocky and others to have a common rhel compatible fork

openSUSE (tumbleweed):

• rolling distro but actually stable ( unlike arch ;) )
• snapshots per default
• has one of, if not the most advanced sys management gui
• buildservice (similar to the aur)
• most feature rich installer
• almost all desktop environments are available ( KDE, Gnome, XFCE, sway, cinnamon, etc)
• best logo ^^

Not that popular but technologically one of the best!