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And if said tradesperson doesn't want their equipment to get wet in the rain they get a van instead.

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.

Those cost money too

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

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.

Well if everything's working correctly you'd want the desktop itself to stay close to the sdr values but have applications that are HDR capable to make use of it. Otherwise you're limited to full screen apps making use of it.

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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.

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