Sync launcher: stop phantom update prompt, forum News panel, hardware-aware render distance

Squashed sync from upstream. Highlights:
- Updater no longer reports already-applied deletes as a pending update on
  every launch (guard the del branch on the target still existing)
- Derive the packaged CSP image origin from the configured server URL
- Forum Announcements panel + News tab; hardware-aware farClip recommendation;
  parchment UI; localization and tweak updates
- Addon source refresh; schema and mod-state fixes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/main/api/routers/general.ts

@@ -5,11 +5,21 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 import { mainWindow } from '~main/index';
 import Preferences from '~main/modules/preferences';
 import { addDefenderExclusions } from '~main/modules/defender';
+import { detectHardware, recommendFarClip } from '~main/modules/hardware';
 
 import { createTRPCRouter, publicProcedure } from '../trpc';
 
 export const generalRouter = createTRPCRouter({
 	appVersion: publicProcedure.query(() => app.getVersion()),
+	hardware: publicProcedure.query(() => {
+		const hardware = Preferences.data.hardware ?? null;
+		return { hardware, recommendedFarClip: recommendFarClip(hardware) };
+	}),
+	redetectHardware: publicProcedure.mutation(async () => {
+		const hardware = await detectHardware();
+		Preferences.data = { hardware };
+		return { hardware, recommendedFarClip: recommendFarClip(hardware) };
+	}),
 	quit: publicProcedure.mutation(() => app.quit()),
 	minimize: publicProcedure.mutation(() => mainWindow?.minimize()),
 	openLink: publicProcedure