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

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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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.

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

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.

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

That’s a solved problem. You use an app for setup, like so many other screenless devices.

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.

What ever happened to under-screen cameras? It was the one piece of tech on phones where I was waiting for it to improve.

It’s a black square like any other phone

External communities are just searchable, subscribable and browsable from here. Sometimes you need to change a search filter or default view from Local to All. Or is there something else you feel is missing? I think 90% of the issues people are having are UX related and not a core issue with federation or decentralization.