Your EDIT. The first thing it suggested is actually very similar to ensembles in meteorology. I actually find myself doing that often if it's something extremely important. Just feels natural to cross-check with other models or with reality. The disclaimer says it may make mistakes after all...
Like you don't predict the weather or a hurricane track with a single model. The NHC uses many.
It's still probablistic, but if multiple models are independently in agreement, then it's at least worth investigating further.
Business account though. Everyone else is just a waste of time to provide support to.
I'm a regular consumer who bought a Dell Precision laptop (which still kicks ass btw, to their credit for all their faults) and they bent over backwards because I purchased through their business side. A shipping delay got me a 100 dollar discount, and another hiccup got me 150 dollars to spend at Dell. Bought a business grade 4K monitor from them that also kicks ass and has imperceptible latency in CS:GO/CS2 with the laptop.
Sometimes even in a bleak corporate world there can be good customer service. It's the exception rather than the rule too often.
I can also attest to horrific lagspikes on an Optimus laptop even if Intel is driving the desktop. Memory pressure is definitely the problem here. Lagspikes actually lessened when I switched to Wayland Gnome. I think they lessened further with PREEMPT_RT on kernel 6.12. Nvidia requires an environment variable to build on real time kernels but it plays surprisingly nice as of driver 570. But if you have this config, you need at least 11th gen Intel iGPU or AMD APU, because i915 does not build for real-time kernels. Only the Xe driver works and only if you force_probe the ID if it's Tiger Lake.
...Which I don't get because the Xe driver is said to explicitly support, at minimum, Tiger Lake. I played Minecraft on the iGPU with Xe and it was perfectly fine. It... drew 3D graphics at expected framerates.
BSP is a technique for optimizing visibility calculations on convex level geometry. You're still making a 3D model and that's exactly what's stored as part of a .bsp file. So the point isn't BSP being outdated.
Just Trenchbroom and tools like it have more of a Minecraft creative mode simplicity to them, with click and drag snap to grid rapid prototyping of basic level geometry, and even more advanced geometry and details (including creating slopes and cylindrical structures, rafters, vents, general architectural details), than Blender's out of box generic UX presentation intended for all use cases of 3D design.
You can kinda do that with Pixels and Sony Xperias only, because last I recall, they implement Android Verified Boot correctly (or non-draconianly), specifically avb_custom_key.
From a security and freedom perspective, I actually like the restrictions of the Android platform if implemented as Google intended, which means allowing you to roll your own ROM and relock the bootloader with your own keys. Android itself has among the strongest security models for a consumer platform, again if implemented as Google intended (which is why GrapheneOS only supports Pixels). You're actually not supposed to root your phone because that opens up a large attack surface.
It's inconvenient for customization, sure, but you can still wipe the phone and roll your own system. It's a matter of the workflow to do it.
Like you don't predict the weather or a hurricane track with a single model. The NHC uses many.
It's still probablistic, but if multiple models are independently in agreement, then it's at least worth investigating further.