And specifically prohibits releasing any sourcecode which means that FOSS custom roms cant release updates unless they want to ship binaries.

There is privacytools.io aswell

Definition wise thats not a “free market” its a market thats regulated in their favor. Its totally correct to say that todays self proclaimed “capitalists” hate free market capitalism, because they could never compete if they didnt constantly get tax payer money shoved up their asses and laws passed that prevents competitors from taking any of their marketshare.

I would have thought that ubuntu does proper stability testing before pushing out updates. Well im glad you were able to get it working again.

I would generally never update to the latest driver with an nvidia card. On some distros it might work out, but i have always had less issues by just staying one or more major versions behind. If your system auto updates to latest, then thats kinda bad design by the distro devs imho. What distro are you on?

If you wanna know you can type in about:support into the firefox address bar and check if HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING says available. Cool stuff either way tho, thanks for sharing :)

If you would like my thoughts on the Shakespeare authorship question or why The Last Jedi is unfairly maligned, I can help you out all day, however.

We all have our little troves of more or sometimes less useful knowledge dont we :D

Is gpu based browser video decoding acceleration working? Ive been playing with arm based SBC for this kinda thing and that was an issue i was facing. I was watching youtube on 1080p and dropped lots of frames. Figured out you have to force enable it on certain systems or inside firefox config.

Such a tragedy what bungie has become. The game would have so much potential in the right hands.

The Clovis monologue in the Destiny 2 Deep Stone Crypt. Its not really an intro to a fight and more like the mastermind behind the situation introducing itself halfway through the raid. So doesnt quite fit this post but i loved it so much so im sharing it anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNgcGGMvLk

I had a 1070 until recently and that was working fine on debian and ubuntu. Usually you need to allow proprietary drivers somewhere in your package sources and then install the nvidia-driver package. Its possible to run into weird configurations issues and those can be annoying to solve. If you wanna avoid that, i would go with a distro that ships with either the drivers prepackaged or supports a guided setup for gpu drivers.

Popular distros that do this are for example Bazzite or PopOS which both come with nvidia drivers pre installed.

Yeah i know. Wasnt judging your comment, only the original article based on the info in your comment. :)

Which desktop environments were you using on all those distros? Whats your gpu model? Because if its not suuuper old it should work just fine with the proprietary nvidia drivers that come with most distros these days.

The first one seems irrelevant. The second is sort of inevitable without making it hard to report anything.

Everything else is just exactly what people were saying from the start. I dont know why people keep defending this privacy nightmare of an app.

There isnt actually a way to make functional anticheat as long as its playable on your own device. Its pointless to try and a waste of money. The only way is banning offenders and premium/custom matchmaking.

Deep Rock is peer to peer which is cool because it means you can ban annoying people yourself :) But yeah, no LAN support sadly.

What do they mean by “reproducible builds” then? https://f-droid.org/en/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html

On f-droid.org, the app’s metadata can include a Binaries: URL where the original developer can post their own signed releases. The build process downloads the signed release from there in order to compare it to the version that was just built on our buildserver.

Sounds a lot like reproducible builds to me…

You can also see this in practice in their regular blog posts like recently:

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/08/21/twif.html

But we also host Element X and its fork SchildiChat Next which are not yet updated as these hit reproducibility issues that hamper determinism.

Ooh i see. That was kinda missing from the post for me to understand it. Do you just not wanna spend any money or why keep that card? You could get a used AMD card that is 10-30 times as powerful for like 30-50€

Im all for extending hardware lifetime as much as possible, but after 10 years i feel like its okay to upgrade.

Aurora store directly pulls from googles servers so as soon as its on the play store its available on aurora.

Fdroid has a rather complicated “reproducibility” check they do. (They check that when they compile the app themselves they get the same apk file bit for bit as the original provided by the developer) So Fdroid will always be a couple days later usually.

The fastest will always be directly going to the source so either the git repository directly or using a store that pulls directly from git/release source like Obtanium https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/

I would always go with Fdroid as the first choice tho simply because its well tested and reliable.

Maybe im missing something here, but why do you need to use such an old driver version? Trixie ships with 550 if you enable non-free so why not use that? Considering you tried the official installer i would think you dont mind non-free drivers.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nvidia-driver

This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity.

Well it doesnt fucking matter what “makes sense to you” because it is working…
Its being deployed by people who had their sites DDoS’d to shit by crawlers and they are very happy with the results so what even is the point of trying to argue here?