Welcome to the world of B2B where 98% of products are listed nowhere and of those products you get a listing the price is either hidden or not the price anyone really pays.

Do yourself the favor and upgrade to mpv

This is waterfall method propaganda! It never works out this smoothly. They probably forgot important requirements like: the astronauts need to be alive on Mars.

Yep optix works on Linux. Blender is also generally faster in Linux btw.

Why are you surprised?

Single board computer or SBC for short.

Not only children. I know a guy that passes out (or almost does) when they try to inject him with needles.