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Disable Meltdown/Spectre CPU mitigations (Intel)

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Sets FeatureSettingsOverride to disable kernel-level mitigations for Spectre v1/v2 and Meltdown. Affects older Intel CPUs (Skylake → Coffee Lake era) most, where the mitigations cost 5-30% in I/O-heavy workloads. Modern (Tiger Lake+) CPUs have these in hardware so the cost is small. DO NOT apply on systems that run untrusted code (browsers count, but most users accept that risk).

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