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

Call people? For database software??? I’ll install postgres from my private dark corner tyvm

Or just don’t use it

There is no one-size-fits-all architecture. Microservices are fine, but probably not for you.

I thought it was libvlc that covers that but no, it is indeed libavcodec which is part of the ffmpeg project. Does anyone here know the relationship between libvlc and libavcodec?

IP rights is not a problem that needs solving. In fact, the existing legal system has ways of punishing copyright violations whereas the Blockchain does not.

Supply chain validation is also an example of the block chain “in action”. But the people that are entering the data on the Blockchain are the same people that were typing it in an email yesterday.

I used to be a fan of the technology as well but so far it hasn’t show itself to be useful. A solution in search of a problem.

100% compostable

If it’s Android tv then yes, there is a VLC version for that.

If by expensive version you mean the original Italian gianduja spread. The Ferrero version is overly sweet and tasteless in comparison.

On some days listening to a whole album start to finish just hits different

Smash bros has these as well

No config. It should just work

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.