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?

“I use arch btw”