https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirect-bypasser-webextension/ in desktop Firefox seems to work for your link. For mobile there might be apps that you share the link to and they dissect it, but a very quick search didn’t turn up anything.
To Youtube such views probably look more like a viewbot than a legitimate user, so they don’t count it.
I think you need to run sha256sum -c *.iso.sha256 (note the -c) to check the .iso file against the downloaded .sha256 file. Or just cat the .sha256 file and check that its content matches your output here.
There’s the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkclose vulnerability which afaiu could compromise the CPU itself. Haven’t heard about it being actually exploited, but who knows.
IIRC the first draft had the keys all controlled by Microsoft, with no option to use your own, and no option to disable it. Don’t think the GPL had anything to do with it directly, though it was people wanting to use Linux (and other systems than the one pre-installed) on their own hardware that complained.
And the first iteration was much more locked down, only got changed after public complaints.
Well, “fill your fridge/freezer so there’s less cold air inside that can be replaced by warm air when opening it, then it does need less energy to cool down again after opening” is true, but the reasoning… No isolation is perfect (and certainly not that of affordable household fridges) so there’ll always be warmth getting in that has to be moved out again. Cooling only doesn’t require energy if surrounded by equal coolness.