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  • First of all NVidia are morons. Morons who don’t accept their own mistakes and have pushed it on to all other custom design manufacturers since the 50 (or even already 40?) series.

    AMD is also stupid, but not as braindead as NVidia. That’s why there are only a baby’s handful of AMD GPUs with 12VHBRN, while most have 2-3x 8-Pin (75W+300…450W = 375…525W).

    Get one of the latter and a 180° Bridge/WireView. Then you can route your cables just as cleanly.



  • Yeah. Live patching is someting distros/service providers charge a lot of money for to get right, and requires at least some knowedge about every patch you apply.

    And it’s something no one operating a PC that regularly reboots needs. Idc if my running kernel is one version older than the one I installed, it doesn’t impact games at all. The only exception is loading modules, which is something you rarely do in normal operation. And for the only module I stumbled upon that I regularly loaded after boot, v4l2loopback (or similar), which I needed for streaming my phone’s camera to OBS, I added it to /etc/modules-load.d/v4l2loopback.conf.

    Even my server’s kernel is sometimes out of sync. I only reboot programs I actually want to be up-to-date at that moment. All others can wait for some weekend or another.









  • I think we should be proud. Linux is finally large enough to at least sort of get “hit” by a malware campaign, and it demonstrates the ease with which thousands of infected packages can be cleaned, because they are centralized to a few repositories. M$‘s only bet would be to update Defenders’ index and cross fingers that the signature doesn’t change.
    Windows malware is always way out of control of M$, while that’s also the norm of uninfected programs.
    Almost all Linux programs are by design installed from a central repo.