Need? No. But hardware acceleration makes things faster and more efficient.

You copy pasted 3 possible answers from the font of infinite possible answers. OP could have done the same themselves but chose to ask humans.

To be fair, LLMs are very good at this sort of associative lookup. But I agree that it doesn’t add much to thr conversation. It’s like the modern equivalent of letmegooglethatforyou

Do you have a source for the CIA backing claim? I can’t find anything substantiated with a quick ddg search.

I’d be more worried about the windows bootloader deciding to overwrite grub

For a company this big it would also have to have gotten past a code review and QA team, right? … right? …

Depends. Since this is security software it probably has a kernel driver component. I think in linux a 3rd party kernel module could do the same. But the community would not accept closed source security software, especially not in the kernel.

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Honestly the LCD decks are so cheap, especially with sales, I don’t think you could build a gaming PC for that price.

It works in KDE + Wayland… mostly… for applications that support it… and there was this update that ruined my color profile for a while but they fixed that now!