The headline is a reading into it a bit. They said nothing is off the table, but they are confident that a conventional strike would accomplish the goal.
Not that a strike would happen anyway, but they rarely say that any option is completely off the table. A nuclear first strike should be one of those options off the table, but it's the Trump administration we're talking about.
Explosion no. Extra fallout, maybe. But the facility we're talking about is deep underground, so even if it happens, hopefully that contains some of the fallout.
Because it's not just hitting a fucking switch, they have to identify, test, source, and deploy each replacement.. And even then, all the existing stock is going to get used up first before you'll see it on the store shelf.
It's a factor of identity verification. Like if you've stolen a passport from someone with a name that's not generally considered masculine or feminine, it helps raise a flag when it doesn't seem to match the person holding it.
Making fraudulent passports used to be easier. You see old movies with people replacing the photos. If you do that on a passport for Michael Smith, male, but you're apparently a woman, it's a lot harder to argue than just saying "yeah my parents gave me a boy's name".
The apps you list need decent gpu and gpu doesn’t virtualize well.
That's not really true any more. To actually get it working, especially sharing a GPU between multiple VMs, is finicky, especially if you're not using the very narrow supported configuration and expensive enterprise hypervisor features. But it is possible, and you can find plenty of articles from people who have gotten it working.
But I still wouldn't recommend it. I'd give one whole GPU to one VM with PCI passthrough, and let multiple users remote in. Hopefully the apps support that.
I don't think officers go through basic training anyway, they have officer school instead.