Do you wear eyeglasses? Have you gotten new ones lately?
I've had a couple sets with some terrible polycarbonite lenses and it's pretty ugh. Gotta spend more and get trivex or glass.
If you don't like Intel ME, that's fine, don't use a NIC that's wired for it. I think it's gotta be a motherboard NIC, but if you've got multiple NICs on the motherboard, probably only one will be wired up.
Typically, you can disable PXE, both...