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Isn't it illegal to destroy classified documents without the proper clearances ahead of time?

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From the article ...

NASA announced on Monday that it will be closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Twenty-three employees will be affected by the cuts,

If I don’t get at least 10% on my investment I’ll fucking riot.

No you won’t.

They call it the "third rail of politics" for a reason.

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Most computers have a proprietary BIOS they have to talk to, though they do follow open standards.

I can't find the link to show you, but I had thought I read before where some of the Nvidia 'Secret Sauce' code that would normally be in the driver software was in the firmware, and that the firmware was not open sourced.

So it would mean extra effort for the open source driver coders to try to get the same kind of performance. Basically Nvidia not open sourcing their proprietary code that gives them the/partial advantage in speed.

I think I remember reading about it in a web article, but like as I mentioned, I can't remember which, or else I'd link it for you.

More than willing to admit I'm wrong about that interpretation too, but I remember it's sticking out in my mind at the time of reading, as a "Sneaky Nvidia!" type of thought.

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If a human being can be that dishonest and still convince himself he’s a good person, maybe our species never had much of a chance.

We're not there, when he looks in the mirror. Evil politics takes a toll on all. From his perspective, "God watches us all'.

Also, have faith, fellow mammal. We're a work in progress, generationally.

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They’ll just cut it for anybody under 60 or whatever, and their base will cheer them on.

Not if they have been paying into it. At least not unless they get a refund for what they paid into it.

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Speaking of, you gotta let it go. “Natasha is dead. She is dead. She’s dead. Okay?”

"She's dead, Jim."
      - Dr. Leonard McCoy

Edit: Apparently its impossible to format text to indent and single-dash a line of text. Hopefully the joke still comes through.

Edit2: Got around the problem by formatting the text as code.

Edit3: And we have a Winnarr! https://lemmy.world/comment/15635385

If you don't mind me asking, why are you're looking for an alternative?

Is it a federation issue, or you don't like how it's being modded, or something else entirely different? Honestly curious.

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They're getting better, but per the last Gamers Nexus video I watched, they are still falling behind nVidia/AMD's, performance-wise. They're good price wise.

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Point taken, but, nobody can tell the future (if they could, they'd be in Vegas doing two shows a night).

You make your "best guess" purchasing decisions at a single point in time.

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Maybe, you never know. That would be even harder for them to do though, since that is a utility app for working with files, and files are shared between devices.

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It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)

I must’ve missed that from in the post. Do you have more information on that?

The article mentions the following ...

the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience.

Also in the same article, there's a link to another article that mentions it a little bit more ...

"... serving as a hard- and firmware abstraction layer for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs."

I've also read something about it from other places, other articles as well ...

The GSP is binary-only firmware loaded at run-time. The open-source kernel driver explicitly depends upon the GSP-supported graphics processors.

Basically, some/allot of the Nvidia "magic" is in their hardware/firmware, and that they are not open source.

Feel free to double check me on this though, that's just my interpretation based on quickly reading some articles over the last six months or so.

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Belusconi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Silvio_Berlusconi

The cost of moving everything over to AMD is high so it just takes time to get rid of old hardware as a best case scenario.

Totally understand. I hang on to my current GPU for as long as I can before switching to a new one (fiveish years), especially these days.

Having said that, if your goal is to move to Linux for gaming, best to go with a whole AMD setup if possible. Also a distro that updates often but is not bleeding edge. (For me, Fedora/KDE.)

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Somewhere, somebody’s having a meltdown because Rust is spreading more and more in the kernel.

Probably more than just one somebody, based on the drama in these last few week's. 😜

Good to see that NVIDIA is writing opensource drivers (or starting to). I guess it’s too much to ask to support old graphics cards, with NVIDIA mostly caring about money and a linux driver being an incentive to choose NVIDIA over AMD for some.

It's too bad that there's still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I'm assuming right/wrong that it's not open source, since it's binary.)

Best to support AMD if you game on Linux. Really wish Intel would step up their GPU game.

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Some games with this on the store page run natively on Linux. Not sure how it works, does the Linux version just not use the anticheat?

They may be a native Linux-supported game.

Otherwise, I know Easy Anti-Cheat is available on Steam for Linux, you install it just like if it's its own game, then other games use it. I don't know about any other anti-cheat software.

You can always check out protondb.com for info on a specific game.

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As a Linux gamer, that uses Proton to play games, I'm sure glad they did.

Makes it easy to figure out if I should bother buying the game or not.

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Yeah you got to wonder why they're bothering to remove it if the functionality is still there from another one of their apps.

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You can still use Files by Google to share Android applications in a similar manner. Under Categories, go to “Apps” and then the overflow menu for what you want to “Share.”