Ugh.
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Ugh.
Languages are fun :)
We must not forget that most of us over here have affinity with technology to at least some degree.
We might manage just fine, but it's way above our grandparent's heads.
Absolutely. Especially with the advent of protocols like ACME it just makes sense.
Here's a nice blogpost from smallstep (not affiliated) on this topic: https://smallstep.com/blog/passive-revocation/
There is this audiophile article [0] that takes compares some different consumer level NAS devices. They used the same listening setup to play lossless audio files from different NAS devices. The article's authors perceived a difference in sound quality and characteristics, depending on the NAS and RAID configuration!
The article is a solid example of a placebo effect. The bitstream is identical between the setups.
When it comes down to digital to analog conversion, there's a lot of variables going on. I can definitely hear the difference between my laptop's headphone output and the headphone output of my prosumer-level audio interface. A more expensive audio interface might introduce measurably less cross-talk and noise. Some headphones will sound weak if the headphone amp is not powerful enough.
In other words: some people focus on things that are measurable. Others seem to be deliberately chasing the placebo effect of expensive equipment.
0. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_t...
Note that you'd have to user vt-d, in combination with vfio, not virtio. Vt-d allows for PCIe passthrough. VirtIO is a family of paravirtualized hardware like HDD controllers and network interfaces.
Besides the name-switchup, you're completely right.
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-virtualizati...