Dude drives like a granny, we always mocked him for that.
Get some snow tires and/or buy a subaru or some other AWD car if you live in some frozen wasteland.
There's going to be a modding scene for TVs as a necessity. Companies just plain don't give a shit about the usability of their menus on multiple devices, let alone the big screen they think should only be used to consume streaming media.
Speaking of buttons, it was a bit of a gamechanger when I got my first monitor that used a multi-direction button for selecting things instead of a row of 4 regular ones.
I'm a fan of the single nipple/joystick control for navigating OSDs. There are some RC transmitters like the TBS Crossfire that use a similar control and it's great.
I believe the main reason for the 5G push is just the massive increase in tracking that having so many tinier nodes closer together, and closer to where devices will be connected will allow for INCREDIBLY easy triangulation even if you rip GPS out of every one of your devices. If a 5g cellular device is ever used you can bet all of the even more accurate data of its potential real world location is being saved on NSA mega servers somewhere.
GM is already pushing this. They have Onstar since the 2G days that would automatically detect if your car was in an accident and call 911. More recently they pushed the vehicle to vehicle (V2V) intercar networking thing that apparently shares information from one car's sensor's to another's like some sort of AWACS for cars and retarded drivers.
Can you still rip this kind of shit out without needing to tear the entire car apart?
You might be able to on earlier versions of Onstar, but newer ones are directly linked with the ECU. There have been instances where stolen GM cars have been remotely disabled via Onstar, so I'd imagine the effort to remove it is not trivial.
This shit's always been a problem if you ask me. I've had to buy replacement remotes for two different older CRT TVs. They had face buttons, but they lacked the navigation options to do what I want (which was to play older video games). The remote should ideally be for convenience, but it seems to me that hasn't been the case for 20+ years.
Considering how popular universal remotes were in that era, maybe there's a universal remote product you can program yourself? Just guessing, but I remember using them. Thanks for the ebay tip, will keep that in mind.
There was a manufacturer(Logitech?) of universal remotes that had a large online database of remotes and the specific IR signals they used.
The Logitech Harmony series of universal remotes I believe. They worked with almost everything. Some android phones and tablets also came with an IR blaster you could use as a remote, which was pretty cool.
Speaking of TVs it really pisses me off that modern TVs sold in the UK and Europe somehow manage to come with a composite input but not a SCART input.
