Why is my laptop so slow? A QEMU smart TV rendering a fireplace screensaver
moyix · x · 2026-10-27
Security researcher moyix shares a funny debugging outcome: his laptop was slow because he had left an emulated smart TV running in QEMU, rendering a hyper-realistic fireplace screensaver shown in the screenshot.
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