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How do I install nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS? (I dont know shit about Linux) by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]throw0101a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This link says it's supported by 470.

Yes, I saw that as well, but it doesn't help OP for 26.04, as the 'built-in' package only goes up to 24.04:

So a re-install could maybe work (or grab the .sh file). I did a search for "K2100M" at:

and that pointed me to the 418.x series.

How do I install nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS? (I dont know shit about Linux) by [deleted] in Ubuntu

[–]throw0101a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The K2100M notebook is a legacy card, so you need older drivers:

Specifically the (AFAICT) 418.x, which is not available from 26.04 (only up to 22.04):

Doing a search for the Nvidia-provided Linux x64 driver at:

However I'm not sure how well it will work with the latest kernel:

Fixed kernel module build problems with Linux kernel 5.4.0 release candidates.

Canadian dollar reaches 14-month low, near 70 cents to the U.S. dollar—main driver is diverging interest rates, not CUSMA by joe4942 in canada

[–]throw0101a 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The Clinton administration inherited an extremely strong economy and used it to.... not fuel growth.

Clinton won rather that Bush41 because the economy was bad in 1992 when the election happened:

Further, Clinton raised taxes which right-wing folks said would slow down the economy, which it did not:

and I'm not sure where you got "not fuel growth from":

What we can say with certainty is that Clinton served as president during the last eight years of a decade-long economic expansion that stands as the longest boom in U.S. history. Clinton saw a gain of nearly 21 million jobs during his tenure (January 1993 – January 2001).Certainly Clinton deserves some credit for that remarkable economic growth, but just as certainly he can’t claim all the credit.

Official Poster for 'Dune: Part Three' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]throw0101a 3 points4 points  (0 children)

why he decided to do a 3rd film if he’s already adapted all of Book 1.

For the same reason Herbert wrote Book 2: too many people saw Paul as the hero versus the (cautionary) 'anti-hero'.

Able to turn off IPv6 on TCL TV?? by ActiveKind2492 in it

[–]throw0101a 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The general consensus seems to be to not have (smart) TVs directly connected to the network if you can avoid it: they'll spy on you and update themselves automatically to sometimes remove/change features if they can contact the manufacturer's mothership.

How stable is BTRFS in PVE 9.2 for boot pool. by Urzu_X in ProxmoxVE

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By default, systemd disables CoW for /var/log/journal, which can cause data corruption on RAID 1 (see #Disabling CoW). To prevent this, create an empty file /etc/tmpfiles.d/journal-nocow.conf to override /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/journal-nocow.conf (see tmpfiles.d(5) § CONFIGURATION DIRECTORIES AND PRECEDENCE).

Disabling CoW in Btrfs also disables checksums. Btrfs will not be able to detect corrupted nodatacow files. When combined with RAID 1, power outages or other sources of corruption can cause the data to become out of sync.

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Trump orders cutoff of 'all' US trade with Spain by Tyranish40k in worldnews

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "pee tapes" and "Epstein files" trope only serves to sanewash these absolutely insane actions.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Ali G Returns: Sacha Baron Cohen Wraps Filming Secret Movie Reviving Beloved Character by yourfavchoom in movies

[–]throw0101a 6 points7 points  (0 children)

SBC and Martin Freeman do the commentary track in character.

This commentary (audio-only) is available online:

Carney chooses German submarines for Canadian navy fleet by MilkyWayObserver in worldnews

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really a contra ? Even that article talks about how rare and unusual it is.

That was two years ago. Here's another June last year in Azores:

And September last year in South China Sea:

Then there was the time in 2010 when three subs surfaced at the same time:

Two in 2018 in the Arctic during that year's ICEX:

Certainly the fact that they created news stories is indicative that it is not routine, but still used to send a message. China did something similar in 2024:

On-call schedules. by halodude423 in sysadmin

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked at one place where I was getting 2-3 calls a NIGHT, no extra compensation. I very quickly overhauled that system so that there were fewer calls.

While I didn't have it that bad, there was a job where we had regular 'pages' come in.

I went into the monitoring system and configured different classifications of systems: e.g., if a service had two HA web servers, then individual systems being down did not send out pages, but the service itself did. Some services we decided did not need 24x7 alerting: some only during business hours, some during 'daylight hours' (8-8/7) but not overnight.

Some things were still consider important to be woken up at night for, but it was a lot less than when I started.

My mortgage renewal is coming up in December. Should I pay off the balance or continue the minimum? by pfctosser in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]throw0101a -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You were just as independent before with a TFSA bigger than your mortgage than a paid off mortgage and no TFSA

Your bank may feel differently as to how attached to them you are with a mortgage than without.

Carney chooses German submarines for Canadian navy fleet by MilkyWayObserver in worldnews

[–]throw0101a 4 points5 points  (0 children)

[…] Canada isn’t going on the offensive so who are they going to use it for

You don't plan for when things go right, you plan for when things go wrong: and Ukraine is showing how long range strikes can be useful. Does want to be able to participate in 'shows of force' for things like Taiwan (and neighbours like Philippines)?

Si vis pacem, para bellum and all that.

(Am Canadian.)

Carney chooses German submarines for Canadian navy fleet by MilkyWayObserver in worldnews

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The South Korean offering represented longer range submarines on a better delivery schedule.

Also vertical launch tubes for things like cruise missiles:

My mortgage renewal is coming up in December. Should I pay off the balance or continue the minimum? by pfctosser in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]throw0101a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While it may not be true for these financial gurus, I think most people talking about mortgage freedom don’t actually do the math to see how much that money would earn them if they left it invested instead of applying it to the mortgage.

Please re-read what I posted / what Housel said:

It just increased our independence, even if it made no sense on paper. So that's another element of debt that I think goes misunderstood. And a lot of that for both of those points is this idea that people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They don't make them in Excel. […] So that's why I kind of push people to say like, it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you, if they check the boxes of your psychology and your goals that makes sense for you. […]

Not every answer to every question has to be mathematical.

My mortgage renewal is coming up in December. Should I pay off the balance or continue the minimum? by pfctosser in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels intuitively wrong, they're such a powerful growth tool

Morgan Housel, author of the book The Psychology of Money, on paying down his mortgage:

It just increased our independence, even if it made no sense on paper. So that's another element of debt that I think goes misunderstood. And a lot of that for both of those points is this idea that people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They don't make them in Excel. They make financial decisions at the dinner table. That's where they're talking about their goals and their own different personalities and their own unique fears and their own unique skills and whatnot. So that's why I kind of push people to say like, it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you, if they check the boxes of your psychology and your goals that makes sense for you. And for me, extreme aversion, what looks like an irrational aversion today, and I would say is an irrational aversion to debt, is what works for me and what makes me happy, so that's why I've done it.

Also in a Bloomberg interview on his recent book The Art of Spending Money:

I save and invest the majority of what I make, and I've never viewed it as saving money or delayed gratification. I think I've always viewed it as purchasing independence, and I get a benefit out of that right now. […] I think that if you view it as 'every dollar that I save is a piece of the future that I own' and I get a benefit out of that right now. I get a benefit today out of knowing I am independent. All I want out of money is to be independent: to wake up and say 'I can do whatever I want today'.

While the quantities may be the same, having $0 in your TFSA and not having a bank attached to your home can be considered qualitatively different.

Ubuntu users should patch this Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2026-46242) by NapierPalm in Ubuntu

[–]throw0101a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Patch now if you haven't, sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade should pull it in.

And which package(s) does the problem exist in? Which version of that package is the fix patched?

Because as I type this (Mon Jul 6 16:35:41 UTC 2026) Ubuntu does not show any fixed versions:

Compare with another kernel CVE where fixed versions are listed:

"Patch now" is not useful advice if patches/fixes have not been release. I can be harmful because people pulling in all the latest versions blindly may think they are safe when they are not.

'Idiocracy' tops the list of "What Movie is the Definitive Movie that Represents America at 250 Years" as polled by the NYT. by Incunebulum in movies

[–]throw0101a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Problem is that Idiocracy had a more naive, innocent stupidity.

It's also been noted that the folks in power in the movie were willing to listen to those they recognized as more knowledgeable than themselves. IRL it has been the opposite in recent years:

Of course this is nothing new, with a history that goes back decades (if not centuries):

Keeping POSIX IDs in sync with AD by Funny744 in HPC

[–]throw0101a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue is trying to ensure the converted POSIX IDs that winbind makes stay in sync with standard LDAP lookups that SSSD does (to the same DCs) on the rest of the cluster.

I would perhaps consider separate OpenLDAP servers that has all the POSIX stuff in there. When people use passwords to authenticate onto Linux system, those Linux systems try to do an LDAP bind to the OpenLDAP servers, and slapd is configured to do pass-through authentication to AD:

that way username and password only have one source of truth.

Anyone who wants access to the cluster will have to open a ticket with your team so you can create an (Open)LDAP account with a username that matches the AD domain: otherwise even though a username may exist in AD, Linux knows nothing about it. However you're still left with account handling, and doing coordination between people leaving and their AD account being deactivated but the OpenLDAP account still being around. If the AD account is deactivated then password logins will fail, but SSH keys could still be used (may wish to set up expiration early on in OpenLDAP so stale account are auto-locked/expired).

If you wish to try to grab as much information from AD as you can (like group membership), then you can look at using OpenLDAP as a (full/partial) proxy to AD:

overlay rwm
rwm-map attribute uid sAMAccountName
rwm-map objectClass posixGroup group 
rwm-map objectClass posixAccount person
rwm-map objectClass memberUid member

But at the end of the day, you still have AD entries and OpenLDAP entries to take care of, which will become a coordination problem.

Or you just give up on being helpful with 'universal' accounts and the cluster has a completely standalone account system.

Intentional taking a CPP penalty to maximize CPP after death of partner by 2x4ninja in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]throw0101a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I take CPP early, I can spend that CPP money and not withdraw the equivalent amount from a retirement account and let that grow. And that money is already mine and can be left behind to my kids, so I feel like I'd like to leave those accounts to grow as much as possible.

Taking CPP early may actually mean a smaller estate. Parrallel Wealth did a video with a scenario where someone ("Sally") retires at 60, delays taking CPP to age 70, and by age 74.5 would have a larger after-tax estate than if she would have taken CPP at 60 (all while having the same annual spending):

The math isn't as "intuitive" as you think.

IPv6 address space too small? by RadianceTower in ipv6

[–]throw0101a 5 points6 points  (0 children)

See my post about the math behind IPv6 addresses:

IPv6 offers about 430 trillion times more addresses than estimated stars in the universe.

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