Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.

Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Double check me on this, but I think they have a “-site:” parameter that you can use in your searches.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Lemmy is a lot of different inter-connected sites, most of which don’t even contain “Lemmy” in their name, making it a much more difficult ask.

A search engine could easily enough set up their own Lemmy server to search from. Same with Mastodon.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Never thought coding drivers would be hazardous to your life.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

From the article …

Asahi Lina posted to Bluesky today:

"For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you."

Or a good wall corner.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

No valid arguments there either.

Just to be clear, I agree with you, and those links are me doing so. Don’t quote have the hang of cross posting here on Lemmy.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

What I will never support is the stupidity of defining any object by external criteria.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15686674.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15687018

Sounds like good times, indeed.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

No. It was for a Star Wars roleplay but not a video game. It started life in the newsgroup de.rec.sf.starwars

Ah, ok, nice! Was that the old D6 version, or the newer D20 one?

and I played the role of Emperor.

You dark person you! 😜

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Apologies for being off-topic, but the domain name, “swg-empire.de”, does the ‘swg’ part ‘Star Wars Galaxies’ by chance?

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

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.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

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.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

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.)

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

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.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Nah, when he uses his Jesussy powers he’d stare them down quick like, and they’d beg for forgiveness.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Something tells me that if Jesus was ‘Jesussy’ enough, that they’d listen to him, regardless of skin color.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I hate the ‘hate’ part (pardon the pun) of the question.

I’d rather go back in time and get Jesus and bring him back here so that he can go all ‘temple money changers’ on today’s MAGA Christians asses, give them a proper yelling to.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?

When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.

I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Then picking the exact correct thing

It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}