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.

Those cost money too

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.

I can recommend this site for up-to-date and fairly neutral parts recommendations split by budget https://www.logicalincrements.com

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

Ah I did some more research and what I said only applies to the older Elgato devices. They did use h264 as the format over usb and you could use that directly without recoding. But they moved to a custom format due to delay and decoding overhead. And ofc you’d want stream ovelays and such which also requires reencoding.

You are correct that the Elgato does video encoding. And that if you use your GPU it’s putting a little bit of extra load on the GPU. But it’s negligible since the video encoding is a separate part of the chip. Maybe you’ll lose a percentage of FPS due to power usage snd bandwidth, but honestly the same is probably true for the CPU load caused by USB bandwidth.

I will always downvote articles with “slams” in the title. It is undoubtedly low effort clickbait. …unless someone actually gets a door slammed in their face.

Piracy is not a real solution to the problem. Microsoft allows these sorts of things to exist in the background because they would rather lose out on some sales than lose market share.

The team at Microsoft that was working on it probably got put on different projects. There wouldn’t be anyone to put in the effort to get the code cleaned up of any proprietary libraries, internal references,… No way they are shifting people back around and paying for development to get this done.

Windows 11 isn’t bad. But it’s a sidegrade from 10. For example, I have an ultrawide HDR display and 11 is a must for HDR. But the damn start bar can’t move to the left anymore which is super annoying on an ultrawide.

And you wouldn’t really need faceId or any other depth aware camera for this. Just a normal front-facing camera will do. Or do accelerometer only and tilt the phone instead

No config. It should just work

Do I understand correctly that this is not at all an exploit for Google Calendar itself, but just uses the Calendar share functionality to communicate to already infected hosts? That can be applied to pretty much any service with publicly accessible of sharable data though… I’d call this website out for clickbait but it seems like every tech news website is copy-pasting this same fearmongering article.

KDE Connect? Edit: It doesn’t look like that supports calling. But it does texting

What a horrible clickbait title, description and thumbnail. I refuse to click this and give it any views

The location permission is because in dense cities there are enough unique, stationary bluetooth endpoint that you can guesstimate a location.

Unless you have the ability to root it, does it matter? It’s likely a completely custom, stripped down distro anyway.

While these sorts of practices are legal, consumers need to be educated.