Modern CPUs can do all the audio processing you’d ever need (maybe barring some professional use cases like making music or editing a movie).

Audiophile external audio devices are just doing the conversion from a digital signal to an analogue signal.

The noveau drivers don’t work with Nvidia cards on x11 either.

It’s just marketing.

It’s like how a 7 or 8 out of 10 movie should mean it’s really great, but actually means it was just “ok”.

We like the idea that we are getting something above average, which ends up with a skewed idea of what average is.

Honestly, if it’s just a small, personal project, just use common sense and take some basic precautions (e.g. use a firewall, use NGINX instead of serving Wordpress directly, etc.).

Note that CloudFlare doesn’t protect you from everything either - it only provides some very specific services. A rudimentary level of caching images being the most common one a free account level would be able to use.

Vanilla Minecraft gets less and less “vanilla” every year.