there was a forum post somewhere (maybe on SU) where some guy was like, if I run my monitor at 1024x768 I'm fine, DWM "only" eats 500 MB of RAM, but if I run at 1920x1080 it eats like 8 gigs
need some help to get in the right direction: I've got a broken 1tb external hdd which isn't recognized by windows. In the past I was able to mount them with ubuntu and used testdisk to restore the data/partition tables. But there's not even a device under /dev for this hdd. quick tip where to start to search ?(I'm not a linux genius but willing to read :) )
if it would be mine, there would be a backup @Annaduh
dmesg says: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 ....(some more detailed information about the vendor) and then 4 times: usb 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
Heck none of my phones have ever gone kaboom, though I did have one Ebay battery once that kinda went oval shaped randomly while sitting on my desk (was a few years old)... I chucked it into the battery recycling at that point
:-O
Apple's Airpods still aren't actually available to buy? :-o
I've recalibrated my laptop's display for 90 nits rather than the 80 nits previously set. This is partly because 80 nits is too low for my external Acer monitor to run consistently at (it's really temperature-sensitive, for starters).
That's one of the drawbacks of a cheap monitor: less consistent performance. My sample also suffers from rather bad IPS glow (although it's never really bothered me).
What's the disadvantage of not using GeForce Experience?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm fixing up a computer for my nephew, and he's not 13 years old, so as far as I know, he's not allowed to have an account. But without an account he can't have GeForce Experience which as far as I can tell means no automatic driver updates.
@WilliamMariager Windows Update doesn't update to the newest drivers, no; it will occasionally update to WHQL certified drivers about once or twice per year, depending on how frequently they want to update... possibly just the ODE drivers
you can still download the latest drivers without having an account; you just have to go to nvidia.com
you can also sign up for their mailing list to get an email each time a new driver comes out
if the parents are not computer literate enough to update the drivers, you can't exactly blame nvidia for covering their legal ass and not anticipating the edge case of a kid who's dangerous with computers enough to break them but wants the latest drivers and the parents don't know jack about computers
if (1) the kid weren't dangerous with computers or (2) didn't need the latest drivers or (3) the parents weren't so computer illiterate, there'd be no problem
@WilliamMariager secure? the GeForce Experience drivers have absolutely nothing to do with security; they're purely for performance on the latest AAA titles
in fact, being as performance focused as they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they're significantly less secure than the extremely well tested Optimal Drivers for Enterprise, which are released way less frequently
if there are security issues in drivers, Windows 10 generally pushes out the fix as an update
the GFE Game Ready drivers are on like a 2-week release cycle; no one, and I mean no one, is good enough to be able to rigorously vet a driver for security vulnerabilities in that period of time
@WilliamMariager they do push graphics driver updates over Windows Update in Windows 10, like I said; it's just not often, and I don't know if there's any particular schedule, though security updates would definitely be a reason to do it
Obviously, but if an exploit is found, you'd like to get the update that fixes that exploit. I'm sure it's not very prevalent in graphics drivers, but it never hurts to keep the system up to date if possible. :)
@WilliamMariager security issues in the graphics stack are surprisingly common, but much of it is only exploitable by code running as the user on the system, which could wreak as much, if not more, havoc without doing anything to the graphics subsystem
things like information disclosure (reading from dirty buffers from other programs) and hooking into other processes using the graphics stack as an intermediary... but if you have a malicious program on the user's system, why waste time doing that, there are easier, juicier targets like their session cookies, password files, documents, etc
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