The drivers have gotten a lot better over the last few years, and Nvidia even have an official open-source driver now, but there’s still issues with them. Wayland works very well now, but not perfectly (especially on GPUs with low VRAM).

If you’re on Linux and are buying a new GPU, stick to AMD. Their driver is part of the Linux kernel, it’s more stable, and it gets all the newest features first.

install newest proprietary nvidia drivers

On newer cards, the open source drivers work pretty well as of version 555. The process for installing them is usually very similar to the proprietary drivers, but there’s often some flag you need to set to tell it to use the open source ones instead. For Fedora, the instructions are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open (ignore the part about it only working for data center GPUs, as that’s no longer true)

sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod'
sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuild 

If you use Nvidia’s installer, it automatically uses the open source driver instead of the proprietary one if you have a new enough GPU (20 series or newer)

Nvidia has helped the Nouveau devs by answering questions in the past, but they also have their own open source driver here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

Most of those points are true for programs written in Go too, and C# (if you use Native AoT).

In countries like Australia that have good consumer protection, they’d have to replace failed CPUs even outside of the warranty period, because they’ve still failed in a time frame shorter than a regular person would expect a CPU to last. The USA really needs better consumer laws.

The majority of users aren’t contributors though. It’s fine to mention it in contributor documentation but I find it weird to advertise it as an end-user feature given most apps written in other languages don’t do this.

It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.

Like what?

small minority of Rust programmers who are very loud

They also list “written in Rust” as the primary feature of software they write, even though the majority of users don’t care as long as it works properly.

and they kept denying there was an issue, until there was so much proof that they couldn’t deny it any more and were like “okay fine there’s an issue so we’re going to be extra generous and extend your warranty one whole year”

flavors of iron

Yum yum

This makes me wonder how much they’ve gotten away with in other countries. Who knows if the sales numbers they’ve been reporting are even accurate?

The documentation is kinda lacking, but if you could figure out how to set up Synapse then you can probably figure out Conduit too. https://conduit.rs/

Nobody is doing anything malicious.

How do you know that though? VPNs are very commonly used to send spam, perform ransomware attacks, DDoS attacks, etc.

What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.

This is definitely also a possibility.

Do you mean Synapse the Matrix server? In my experience, Conduit is much more efficient.

Wow this was a fascinating read

The issue with a VPN is that it’s likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.

You’d likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.

The actual source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

This is basically the difference between HTTP 4xx and 5xx error codes. 4xx means the client did something wrong (invalid request, tried to load something that doesn’t exist, doesn’t have access), whereas 5xx means the request was OK but something broke on the server.

Visual SourceSafe

Yes! That’s the one I was struggling to remember the name of. My previous employer started on Visual SourceSafe in the 90s and migrated to Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the 2000s. There were still remnants of SourceSafe when I worked there (2010 to 2013).

I remember TFS had locks for binary files. There was one time we had to figure out how to remove locks held by an ex-employee - they were doing a big branch merge when they left the company, and left all the files locked. It didn’t automatically drop the locks when their account was deleted.

They had a bunch of VB6 COM components last modified in 1999 that I’m 80% sure are still in prod today. It was still working and Microsoft were still supporting VB6 and Classic ASP, so there wasn’t a big rush to rewrite it.

Before Git, we used SVN (Subversion), and CVS before that. Microsoft shops used TFS or whatever it’s called now (or was called in the past)

I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don’t know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don’t need to know. It just works.

KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.

Great time to switch. I’ve been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it’s totally viable for desktops these days too.