You can buy any metric on the web. Amazon reviews, YouTube subscribers and likes, X followers, Reddit karma, …. I am not surprised that GitHub stars are one of them.
Really does depend on what we are talking about. Some random software that is not critical? Sure.
Some system breaking library that would take down my servers in case of malfunction? No bueno.
Anything that is in the sun. A white car will not heat up as quick as a black one when you drive in the summer, same for a light colored roof on a house, or a train or a bus.
So whenever something is outside and facing the sun, choose the lighter colored version.
The iPhone also had local speech recognition for quite a while now. It is available since the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE. Both of which came out in 2015 - 9 Years ago.
You don’t understand. The end user is the importer. That’s the whole idea behind aliexpress, temu and others. They don’t need to adhere to any local laws because the customer directly shops on the Chinese website.
But they still have a limited lifetime of a maximum of 10 years, regardless of cycle count.