For me it constantly keeps requesting sharing permission and I need to close discord to get rid of it.

That just depends on the contents of each specific thermal paste. It can contain silver, making it potentially conductive.

Let’s rephrase: Have you ever needed to enter your root password while installing a game through a launcher such as Steam?

How would that kernel module be installed if nowhere from installing to actually running the game did it have access to the kernel?

never install software system-wide without your package manager.

What’s the alternative of sudo make install and curl | sudo bash if a package is not available in AUR? I am unfamiliar with make install .

“I use arch btw”