I used to hear the remote from TVs especially old Philips ones and LG's with the single chip on them. That was until I hit 44... after that is hit or miss or just imagining.

But weren't old remotes all IR?

Some very old remotes used what effectively amounted to high frequency tuning forks. Example: https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...

No, not all were IR.

But all of them made by "LG" and featuring a single-chip design are either IR or RF.

Those will still have a ceramic resonator in them, as they’re cheaper than a quartz crystal. Hard to imagine them being audible, but not impossible.

I found something very annoying while looking for technical data ( a service manual for an ancient medical device - build around 2001).

The same term was the name of the device + something about the power source.

The result from the client network - my phone/client computer nothing related to the search for 4-5 pages.

Same search from work - second result was what I was looking.

So it seems there is a relation with your search history, but somehow connected with the related search history from the same ip/network.

same experience. I'm generally getting better results at client's (VPN) network, we are all googling for the same stuff, I guess.

It must be possible to create a fixed set of google searches and rate the location based on the results. So you could physically travel to a Starbucks 20miles away to get the best results for the 'best USB-C dongle reddit'.