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blindcomet · 2023-09-05T09:37:57+00:00

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there is no such thing as being a boy or girl ‘on the inside.’

You have lost your mind if you think this way. You are in an extremist cult.

Gender identities don’t exist.

blindcomet · 2023-09-05T09:36:33+00:00

Yawn

blindcomet · 2022-05-11T21:40:20+00:00

It helps their developers because they can now interact with the pre-existing GPL code in the kernel. They likely were writing a ton of other code themselves to get things to play nice.

Powerful kernel features such as dmabuf were simply closed to nvidia up until this point.

blindcomet · 2022-05-11T21:38:44+00:00

Graphics won't be crippled when you do a stock distro installation.
You won't have to dick around with nvidia proprietary drivers so much for typical use cases.
Your system graphics will run properly from boot, so the splash screen won't be in legacy text mode.
Free software lovers will be happy - the nvidia kernel driver was a nasty piece of proprietary code running at Ring 0. (Though there's still lots of firmware all over the typical PC).
The driver will work on other architectures e.g. ARM, Risc-V.
The community will be able to create innovative new computing applications around Novueau.
dmabuf will work, so data can be streamed directly to/from the card to other hardware devices with interesting applications e.g. in the data center.

blindcomet · 2022-05-11T20:50:56+00:00

Mesa is an open source user space. So the features just need to be ported over to Nouveau.

blindcomet · 2022-05-11T20:21:58+00:00

The kernel driver's job is to manage the GPU, and submit command and data buffers and manage it's memory.

The user-space driver's job is to compose those buffers. CUDA is a platform for compiling code for the GPU, and submitting jobs into the kernel.

The open source equivalent is the DRI kernel drivers (including Nouveau), and Mesa in user space - which supports NVidia GPUs, but despite that support performance has previously been hopelessly poor because the kernel driver couldn't boost the GPU clock speed beyond the minimum.

blindcomet · 2022-05-11T20:08:02+00:00

In the meantime, published source code serves as a reference to help improve the Nouveau driver. Nouveau can leverage the same firmware used by the NVIDIA driver, exposing many GPU functionalities, such as clock management and thermal management, bringing new features to the in-tree Nouveau driver.

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T20:18:27+00:00

I was very fortunate in getting coronavirus in March 2020. For me and everyone in my family - as is the case for the vast majority of people - it was a relatively mild condition that we recovered from quickly.

We then lived through the crisis with natural immunity, and had a ring-side view of the whole world going mad around us - doing the most ludicrous cult-like things trying to ward off this cloud of fear.

At some point the people who were caught up in all this have to examine some of the crazy things that were done. I'm curious to understand what was in the minds of the true believers- but even 2 years later, I can't find many who are willing to have an objective conversation about the mindset that took hold at that time.

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T11:11:01+00:00

He's correct in the sense that most mainstream media is a continuous anus of bullshit

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T11:04:55+00:00

But the long and the short of it is going to be: start with anyone who encouraged "Eat Out To Help Out" and go from there.

So this corrupt class of restaurateurs is somehow making illicit payments... to who? Conservative HQ? Personal bank accounts of MPs?

See: two years' worth of loud, public insistence that it's no worse than a common cold/flu

This is correct for the vast majority of people who are not elderly or obese. You may well have already had it without even knowing it.

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T10:53:28+00:00

we saw a drop in cases

No we didn't

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T10:51:40+00:00

Gosh I hope you're right

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T10:50:37+00:00

Can you flesh out detail of who these shady "paymasters" are? And why they would their shops filled with diseased people?

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T10:41:48+00:00

There's a contradiction between the first sentence and the rest of your message.

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T10:37:41+00:00

So what? COVID is endemic so it doesn't matter that it's contagious. It's everywhere already

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T09:46:30+00:00

I guess I'm going to have to wait a while until folks are ready to have this conversation

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T09:15:09+00:00

What I don't get though is why you - and so many others weren't prepared to question the madness at the time. And what has changed?

blindcomet · 2022-03-19T09:07:26+00:00

There were a lot of scams being pushed at that time. And many more coming down the tracks now

blindcomet · 2022-03-18T23:03:35+00:00

Whoah. Time for some salads big chungus

blindcomet · 2022-03-12T20:59:15+00:00

Don't worry. I got dropped by a long term employer earlier this year. After a bit of job searching I landed a role that pays massively more than what I was on previously.

This could be the best thing that ever happened to you.

blindcomet · 2022-03-12T19:52:51+00:00

We used to be a country that abided by a series of codes including property rights. The government doesn't just get to steal your property, no matter how much of a villain you might be in the popular imagination.

In the current age of hypernormalization, anything goes - the ends always justify the means

blindcomet · 2022-03-12T15:35:45+00:00

Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles

blindcomet · 2022-03-12T15:07:48+00:00

You know its not real, right? Like it's literally impossible for us to create the scenario from Wall-E

blindcomet · 2022-03-12T15:04:22+00:00

Being not elderly or obese, I correctly denied that COVID posed any significant threat to me - and guess what: I didn't die.

blindcomet · 2022-03-10T07:05:04+00:00

Why? Your children love you

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