TFA doesn't say... my guess: "something that has roughly the same interface metaphors as win9x".

Isn't that basically what the TRESOR proof-of-concept did?

No it doesn't.

Your math is off by 2 orders of magnitude.

Nope, they're quite nonlinear PTC thermistors.

Wrong again, see above.

Yeah, right.

For added fun (and what the parent alluded to), look up temperature vs. radiated spectrum for a (approximately) black body radiator.

Similar anecdotal experience here. 4 of the 5 Osram 23W CFLs I got back in 1993 are still "working" (in quotes as they take ages to start up and are likely well below 80% nominal light output by now).
Seems "value engineering" killed longevity somewhere around the mid-late 90s.

Who is using dimmers in their attics and closets? And... why?

Viscous cronies? So... they're really thick?

Considering the Seiki doesn't have displayport and gets driven as 3840x2160@30 over HDMI... nope.
You're thinking of the 60Hz capable Sharp/Asus/Dell/..., those do the 2x 1920x2160@60 in 60Hz mode to work around the per-stream bandwidth limit of DP1.2a

Here, pretty block diagrams:
486DX2
Pentium
Quark
Spot the similarities and differences.

I have the suspicion we're basically agreeing on how "fast" Quark is. As in "a RPi runs circles around it".

Is it even a P1?
Intel calls it "Pentium class", but looking at the core architecture (Quark Core Hardware Reference Manual, chapter 3) ... looks like a 486 with twice the L1 cache.

The most common term is prismatic cell.
Prismatic Li-ion were used in some high capacity laptop batteries in the late 90s/early 00s but seems to have fallen out of favor.
Not quite sure why, likely worse capacity/weight compared to cylindrical and lack of economy of scale were big factors.

3-clause BSD is a proprietary license? Since when?

Dell UP2414Q. $1299 for a 24" 3840x2160 60Hz IPS (also 10bpp and wide gamut, but... meh.).
Finally a monitor for us high-DPI weirdos clinging to their preciousss IBM T221.

"This light switch caused my house to explode!"
"Huh?"
"Well, there also was that gas leak, but that wasn't a problem until I flipped that switch."