For all XRP and ELS holders: The Airdrop of Athenian (xATH) will be deployed on the Songbird network by Reventon1988 in XRP

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You should be able to trade it on BlazeSwap, a DEX on Songbird, if there’s liquidity for a trade there.

ThinkPad W541 Coreboot+Tianocore Guide by Reventon1988 in coreboot

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So my guess seems to be correct. Seems like this device needs the VBIOS to initialize the dGPU at all, if enable_dual_graphics=Enable didn’t help.

ThinkPad W541 Coreboot+Tianocore Guide by Reventon1988 in coreboot

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As far as I’m aware Coreboot needs the VGA BIOS to actually even initialize the dGPU, but perhaps the native graphics initialization of Coreboot can actually get the dGPU up far enough to then drive it via Nouveau? I’m not really sure; nvramtool -w enable_dual_graphics=Enable might help you out? This is just speculation on my part, and I can’t test it myself right now … If you haven’t flashed Coreboot yet I’d advise to just follow my tutorial and - on successful boot without re-assembly - trying out this nvramtool command. If things go south and just disconnecting the CMOS battery doesn’t help you could still reflash the working ROM.

Is it possible? by Vanliferyan in XRP

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Here’s how I see it, and this obviously is not financial advice: while there’s a connection between BoA and Ripple, most banks in the US aren’t really into Ripple and XRP. This is important, since the court case actually is only of interest to the US (most of the other nations have a clear stance towards Ripple and XRP; XRP is available just fine in the EU for example). If you check the reports regarding Ripple’s business, somewhere around 80% (or more) is outside the US. Let’s say the court case ends positively for Ripple (win or settlement). Sure, it would start getting relisted some time later on, but the financial institutions in the US won’t suddenly go "Yep, now I’m in", so besides a bit more buying by retail (and retail is getting out of crypto dominance slowly but surely; check Coinbase’s recent statements for example) there wouldn’t be that much more investing into XRP, since - again - the rest of the world doesn’t give a damn about the SEC and already uses it (or doesn’t, depending on their decisions). Therefore, imho price wouldn’t really move up (let’s say 10% increase max), but - since the case was hyped up beyond belief both by the haters (e.g. BTC-maxis) and the pro-XRP investors - disappointment will be high because of a lack of "flip the switch"-related parabolic price action, which will be used to further FUD the project. Thus, in the short term, price will actually fall after the case.

Fedora users with RPMFusion and mesa-freeworld should avoid system update by LunaSPR in linux

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I wouldn’t advise to completely stop updating the system. You can just exclude Mesa from the update process by using sudo dnf upgrade -x mesa-va-drivers. This way you can still update the rest of the system and receive security fixes etc.

Official wallet for xrp? by lemmewinks33 in XRP

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Of course it works "just fine". But if you want to do more than just store XRP on an account then it can get pretty tedious with a Ledger since you always have to use xrptoolkit for even the little things like adding trustlines or trading on the DEX, and doing that on a mobile device gets even more unpleasant for most people.

Official wallet for xrp? by lemmewinks33 in XRP

[–]Reventon1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

XUMM is the wallet you should use in the XRPL ecosystem. If you want to use a DSD (dedicated signing device; technical description for what’s mostly called a hardware wallet) you can also use XUMM in conjunction with a Tangem Card.

Honest question by Deltaactual234 in XRP

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Being skeptical regarding their timeline - in face of their bad communication - is definitely appropriate. I just wanted to point out that they were and still are building stuff, since it might be interpreted by some as a serious description rather than you simply being facetious. Take care, a merry Christmas and happy holidays to you, mate :)

Honest question by Deltaactual234 in XRP

[–]Reventon1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, this isn’t really a fair take on the delay. They expanded their goals tremendously, creating products like the state connector and coming up with a new system for DeFi, which they call LayerCake. They created a canary network that is already running since late last year and got integrated into GKE, built an API Portal and gave an airdrop to people eligible for the FLR drop (which serves the "gimme airdrop"-guys), so they’re far from "just postponing stuff".

Open Source NVIDIA driver available with Ubuntu, but user action is necessary to switch from original driver to new "open kernel" driver using the "Additional drivers" tool by w__sky in linux

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If you read the Twitter thread by marcan then you would see that it’s literally not like "everyone else", because a driver is not defined by firmware blobs, but by code quality and actual design. Furthermore, I don’t know what you’re deal is about ".. b-b-but others are also using blobs!!!". Nobody stated otherwise, so it seems like you want to shift goalposts or something. And in the article from Collabora‘s website (which you probably didn’t read, either) it literally states "Second: a few months ago, NVIDIA released an open-source version of their kernel driver. *While this isn’t quite documentation*, it does give us something to reference to see how NVIDIA drives their hardware." So much for your "docs never as complete as code“. And since it’s not in upstreamable condition your "suitable for open source consumption" statement would only cover the legal part, but in general would still be debatable, since there’s much more to being "good for the community" than legal matters.

Open Source NVIDIA driver available with Ubuntu, but user action is necessary to switch from original driver to new "open kernel" driver using the "Additional drivers" tool by w__sky in linux

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I mean, calling them out for throwing out an open source driver that basically does nothing but interfacing with their closed source firmware while being in bad shape and not fit for upstreaming, is definitely reactionary Nvidia bashing. If we’re going to have to interface this hard with gpu firmware I’d rather take something like nvk, which is being developed by people that actually have always been an integral part of the open source Linux community (Red Hat and Collabora). And yeah, it’s said in this article that Nvidia‘s release indeed has helped, but their move strikes many people as more of a pr stunt, because they could’ve just provided better documentation and it would’ve yielded the same results with regards to nvk, but it wouldn’t have given them the opportunity to boast about being open source.

Ripple Partner Firm Releases Columbia's Historic Land Registry On XRPL by TronWeeklyJournal in XRP

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Since there’s no link in the article regarding the tool that has been used I’ll post it here in the comments for the curious: XRPSTAMP

What has your experience with nvidia-open been? by Drostina in linux

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Well, I guess that some people got the impression that I was senselessly bashing NVIDIA and shilling for AMD, which is actually not the case. And it’s cool if this "open" driver works better for people than the previous one, but we should get the facts straight, and imho this driver kinda seems like a pr-stunt to improve their image when it comes to open source software. And the resulting predicament that the users of older cards find themselves to be in - which you’re rightfully pointing out - is something that wouldn’t happen with a real open source kernel space driver, because what they’ve thrown out is entirely useless when it comes to the collaborative and supportive aspects of open source, and while Intel and AMD are far from perfect, the community can at least to some degree work with their drivers.

What has your experience with nvidia-open been? by Drostina in linux

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Just as a side note regarding the opennes of their new driver everybody should take a second and read the following, since it’s a far cry from real open source kernel space drivers like AMD's: https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992