powerpc, m68k, mips and some others

On the other hand, why is a certification body (likely with a lot of overhead) actually needed?
Consumers these days are far more conscious of energy use, and information spreads much more quickly. Reviews will test the energy consumptions of products, and products which are inefficient will lose sales as a result.
Detailed reviews are a lot more useful than some logo sticker on the packaging.

This is just an inherent flaw with democracy...
There are LOTS of idiots, and they are much easier to manipulate. Why spend a lot of cost/effort trying to win votes of a few smart people, when for the same cost you can convince a million idiots to vote for you?

With earlier versions (2000, NT, maybe 9x?) it loaded everything first before presenting the login screen. This led to criticism of the long boot times.
With XP they change it to display the login screen more quickly, while still loading many things in the background.

The rest is a user third party developer problem - a lot of applications insert themselves to start at boot - often without giving the option not to or informing the user about it.

The problem is more of consistency, what level/duration of support you get and from whom depends on the manufacturer, the reseller (telco), or even the individual model. You need to do your research before you buy.

Restricted fields cut both ways... There might be few employers, but there might also be very few capable individuals - in the latter case if the company needs you and would find it difficult to replace you, then you can make demands.

If you're interested in a class of product, then you will be actively searching for it, and you're far more likely to be interested in unbiased reviews rather than paid advertisements.
What a lot of these tracking companies do is use your past search history - eg i was searching for lawn mowers last week, so show me advertisements for lawn mowers today. This is totally useless because i was searching for lawnmowers last week because i wanted to buy one, i did buy one, and now i have one so i don't need another.

Or perhaps their ai is smart enough to realize that some people never follow advertising on principle, and will even actively boycott products/brands that subject them to the most intrusive of ads.

If you have kids to take care of then going to an office doesn't change that, someone still needs to take care of the kids which means you'd have childcare expenses on top of the commute costs. There's nothing stopping you from working from home *and* paying for childcare, that still works out cheaper than commuting.

If you're doing something like sales then a fixed office is a terrible place - you should generally be either visiting customers, or communicating with them (phonecalls are better done from home where there's less background noise and interruptions).

If you spend more time at home, how about forming social connections with your neighbors? There are millions of people who don't even know their neighbors because their home is just a place to sleep and they leave early for a long commute. Getting to know your neighbors is a good thing, they can keep an eye on your property when you're away, or accept deliveries for you etc.

Depending on the location, laying someone off can be expensive and there are all manner of laws covering it.
Making someone's working conditions shit so that they quit voluntarily is often much cheaper for the company.

This, if i'm forced into an office i need to leave on time otherwise i miss the train schedule so it takes even longer to get back. If i'm office based i won't take a work laptop home, i'll leave it in the office. Can't claim i need to work in the office and then claim working remote is fine so long as it's after hours unpaid overtime.

And this is what has skewed results in the last few years - people who suddenly found themselves working at home without having prepared for it (ie no dedicated workspace etc) with the added hit of kids being around who would normally have been at school.

io_uring is an optional kernel feature, which you can turn off or compile out if you're not using...

Take out "from home"...
Some people are productive, some people are not. The location where they work has very little impact on that, it's just attracted more scrutiny and forms a convenient excuse. Those people who slack off at home were almost certainly slacking off in the office too only you were using a flawed "attendance" methodology to measure productivity.
I've encountered MANY people who arrive early, spend all day in the office and then leave late, but still don't get much done. If HR are measuring attendance these people get a pat on the back, but their peers end up having to carry their dead weight. If you have a good manager who's using a more sensible way to measure their performance then they quickly get identified.