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All random number generators are quantum, just with very skewed probabilities. Maybe a lot of electrons will spontaneously be somewhere unlikely and cause my computer to miscompute the next term of a Mersenne Twister.
This is a somewhat useless point, though...
In this sense, you don't need "random number generators" at all, just wait for your computer to spontaneously transform into a fire-breathing dragon.
That's actually quite a good way of deciding when to buy lottery tickets and when not to.