Robin

You want us to yell out our credit card details over the phone like the good old days?

HardwareUnboxed did a with/without ray tracing comparison. TL;DR in most games it's not worth the performance hit. Don't bother with ray tracing for now, especially on low or mid-range hardware. https://youtu.be/DBNH0NyN8K8

Playing devil's advocate here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is wireless spectrum congestion.

Does your FLancher start up by default? I have a similar setup on a Shield, and the home button does go to FL. But whenever it comes out of standby it still goes into the Google launcher with ads on it..

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.