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Device drivers are not like other software in at least one important way: They have access to and depend on kernel internals which are not visible to applications, and they need to be rebuilt when those change. Something as huge and complicated as a GPU driver depends on quite a lot of them. The kernel does not provide a stable binary interface for drivers so they will frequently need to be recompiled to work with new versions of linux, and then less frequently the source code also needs modification as things are changed, added to, and improved.

This is not unique to Linux, it’s pretty normal. But it is a deliberate choice that its developers made, and people generally seem to think it was a good one.

Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

The driver needs to interface with the OS kernel which does change, so the driver needs updates. The old Nvidia driver is not open source or free software, so nobody other than Nvidia themselves can practically or legally do it. Nvidia could of course change that if they don’t want to do even the bare minimum of maintenance.

They started 9 years ago, but they remained popular into 2020 and according to wikipedia the last new pascal model was released in 2022. The 1080 and the 1060 are both still pretty high up on the Steam list of the most common GPUs.

Those are the GPUs they were selling — and a whole lot of people were buying — until about five years ago. Not something you’d expect to suddenly be unsupported. I guess Nvidia must be going broke or something, they can’t even afford to maintain their driver software any more.

All it will do is make Microsoft even more desperate to push all their remaining customers into using cloud services and paying monthly subscription fees for everything, because even the customers they care about (not you, maybe the corporation you work for) won’t be buying new PCs for a while.

… but it helps.

LLMs don’t know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

Works for the anglerfish I guess.

Mr. Singh does not seem to be a megalomaniac; he comes across as a genuinely nice guy. But he was not the leader I believe we need — at least not from what we could see from media coverage and the party’s own communications. Personally I don’t give a damn about the sex, religion, or “race” of people I vote for, and I think even now among the electorate at large such factors are greatly outweighed by more relevant considerations. I want a leader who can convincingly explain in detail economics and what’s wrong with it, environmentalism and why it matters, how socialism could transform Canada, and why we should want it to. Then they might have a chance to recruit people at the grassroots level and revitalize the party. Too much to ask? Maybe, but this thread is about optimism.

That’s my kind of optimism. I hope the next leader also realizes that it’s not all about the leader. Their job will be to rebuild the party from the bottom up.

That seems pretty meaningless unless you compare it with numbers from other years.

That’s probably what life is like now for people who don’t get all their phone apps from f-droid.

I’m still not quite understanding what their age has to do with whatever the problem is. The routine makes them fat and lazy after enough years of their job being to “breathe and wear a hat”? Maybe that wouldn’t apply to reservists? Or maybe they don’t run things that way in Finland?

To form this opinion, I assume that you have worked closely with quite a few high-ranking military officers over the age of 60. Were they really that bad?

The post-human future where descendants of OpenAI chatbots are the dominant life form will presumably be full of pyramid schemes, spam, ransomware, and phishing attacks.

Wrong number of buttons on the captain’s chair.

Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

Lucky for us that scientists have since discovered so many new sources of news to keep us busy.