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It took me one google search, and a filter at the first vendor that popped up to find one.

Exactly, this is definitely not going to be quality electronics.

This feels like an advertisement article...single port USB-C PD chargers with 20-30W output in the <$10 range are not at all hard to find already.

They absolutely don't need to detect the country of their users. Simple popup asking, if you're in an EU country, and then adapt according to the users answer.

I use the KNX integration, which must be configured using yaml

This is probably because of the devs behind the integration though and not the fault of HA.

I have my all my cards and dashboards defined through GUI as well, you van make plenty sophisticated interfaces without YAML. A lot of tutorials are probably not up to date with what you can do though and use YAML.

Most races are not against time though... They're against other competitors. The time it takes you is pretty irrelevant, as long as the others are slower.

It's more or less only time trials that are races against time.

None of my custom integrations are configured with YAML anymore, they've all moved to the GUI. Even a couple of my templates have been made directly in the GUI.

"Not a single line of YAML" is a bit hyperbole, but the only YAML I've got left in my setup are a handful of custom sensors, I haven't checked if that can now be done from the GUI. It's around 100 lines of YAML in total or something like that. But all the home automation stuff is done purely with GUI.

There has been huge improvements on what can be done from the GUI in the last few years since I started with HA.

Maybe home assistant a few years ago...I have a fully functional setup with loads of automations and haven't written a single line of YAML for it.

Funny thing, most modern refrigerators use DC motors for their compressors so that they can run at variable speeds

No they don't...they use AC motors and a VFD to control the speed.

No it's Large Fluffy Penguins

They’re starting to put LTE modems in all cars

Because a lot of the market also wants to be able to monitor and control certain aspects of their car remotely, and this is only possible with remote internet connection. LTE is the cheapest and best way to get this. I know it's unfortunately also used for data collection, but at least it provides some useful functionality for the user as well.

But TVs are pretty much always located near a network source, either wireless or wired. There's not really a need to implement LTE, that they have to pay for, when they can just use the customers network for free. Since 99% will connect to the internet, the last 1% are not an interesting market share for them compared to what they would cost.

I kind of doubt LoRa is used for this application because the bitrate is super low. Transferring any meaningful amount of telemetry is not feasible.

If it's not connected to a network(or connected to one without internet access), the data never leaves the TV though, and then the tracking doesn't really matter.