I have a Windforce 4060 16GB and the fans don't run most of the time, even for light gaming. It's not until I run something graphically intensive that they turn on at all, and they're still quieter than my system fan (stock cooler, system not overclocked) because of the blade design and the counterrotating fan not fighting its neighbor. I'm told that if you underclock and undervolt you still get decent performance and the fans only run slightly on very heavy loads.

You can replace pulseaudio (and JACK!) with pipewire and wireplumber. It also supports ALSA clients. Just install pipewire and wireplumber, chmod -x pulseaudio, and reboot. This is effective on probably any Linux system; I do it on Devuan. You need to keep pulseaudio installed for the client libraries. You can control system and application volume using the pulseaudio interface, so all of your normal desktop environment volume controls will work with it.

I agree that pulseaudio is crap, but you CAN replace it, even if you can't remove it fully from your system. It's not very big, so it's not a big problem to have it lurking.

Yes, they wanted to connect to the kernel in ways they weren't allowed to. Changes were made in Linux that forced them to comply. Nvidia made the necessary changes on their end in relatively short order, so short in fact that by the time I actually got a distro with an affected kernel the driver had already been updated, so there was zero impact to me — an Nvidia user. No question that it was sleazy, though.

I used to be an Nvidia user because I dual-booted, and AMD drivers for Windows are hot garbage (and before AMD, the ATI drivers for Windows were the same.) Now I am an Nvidia user even though I don't dual boot, because CUDA is required for some of my use cases, and ROCm only supports a small subset of cards. The AMD drivers for Windows are still trash, but the OSS AMD graphics driver for Linux is great so the only thing that needs to happen is that my use cases need to be less CUDA-dependent or AMD needs to get serious about supporting ROCm across all of their GPUs, and then I will start thinking about buying AMD GPUs which I have regretted every single time I have ever done it in the past. I have seen crappy drivers cause crashes with "their" (ATI's and then AMD's) hardware since Windows 3.1 and the Mach32.

Nvidia can't release GEforce drivers as OSS because they contain Microsoft code. This was part of the deal for getting their chip into the original Xbox. As you yourself state, they have released drivers for their ARM-coupled GPUs. You may not be happy with the way they released the sources, but they did release them and they are usable. Don't unpack them over the top of the prior release and you won't confuse yourself. If AMD were competent at software, then Nvidia would be far less popular. They aren't. That's why their Windows drivers still cause crashes. If you have a simple use case and only want to run Linux, AMD GPUs are totally viable and probably even your best bet. If you want broad application support for GPU acceleration, or if you want to dual boot, Nvidia is still the best choice by far. I use AMD CPUs exclusively, but I also use Nvidia GPUs exclusively. These days (and for some years now) the Linux driver keeps up with the version of the Windows driver. The only missing feature is interleaved SLI, which I no longer want to use anyway, so it's not bothering me.

I got a debt collection letter for a whole ass [used] car once. The perpetrator had a driver's license with my name on it, because it was their name too. My FULL name is approximately the 400th most common FULL name in THIS country, middle name included. But that is not sufficient proof of identity to establish a debt. What the court in Nevada City, CA decided WAS sufficient proof was a check cashing card with my SSN written on it in pen.

Who knows which of the many identity breaches I've been "involved" with ("victimized in" is a more accurate description) or whether it was from Yuba College, which was transmitting student SSNs in cleartext over the internet until I implemented encryption for remote sites for them as a contract job, but they got it somehow and the court accepted it as proof of identity. This is, of course, a spectacular fuckup which destroyed my credit rating — I wasn't even aware of it for years. ANY state database system connected to the SSA would have revealed that the other party's DOB didn't match my SSN, but there were NO SUCH CHECKS.

The SSN was only ever supposed to be used for social security and tax purposes (which are intimately involved) and its use has grown out of all sense. The credit score system is fundamentally no different from China's "social credit score" in that if your credit score is low, it affects employability and access to housing directly, both rentals and purchases, plus has secondary effects on these as well since it affects your access to effective transportation (buying a car, that is, in a country with very few reasonably functional public transport systems) which in turn affects your employability again. The system is rotten from stem to stern and someone having an ID with your name on it is only a severe problem because of general government malaise and incompetence.

I have an employee benefit that lets me rent at approximately half price from Hertz. So I can choose between an affordable rental (with the benefit, the rental car allowance from my insurance comes within a couple of dollars of actually covering the rental car completely like they never do) or a potentially competent rental company.

Please explain how this is not a first amendment issue when the information was only sought so that it could be disseminated in a way that informed and educated. Use words small enough that we can believe that you understand them.

We tried that, it was called not allowing anonymous comments. But without the trolls, the engagement actually went down, so they brought you back because the only thing the owners care about is ad impressions.

I would imagine there was something wrong with that specific vehicle, but also, Teslas just aren't made that well. Nobody expects them to last. But then, nobody gets to expect any EVs will last yet, because so many of them don't and none of them are all that old.

It's kind of pressing now because fuel prices are so high here. I drive 26 miles to work, and my '08 Versa's 28 combined (pretty accurate actually) is unsatisfying. I really wish I could just take light rail. The rail line is sort of there from here to there, though it isn't really, but it makes me sad every time I drive over it.

All of what comprises a vehicle can burn, with enough oxygen, but that information isn't really useful.

Capitalism has never raised anyone out of poverty without controls on who can profit. As we have weakened those controls, capitalism has become less of a force for lifting people from poverty and more of a force for keeping them there.

UBI isn't anti-capitalistic any more than taxation. Both are ways to make the system work sustainably.

That is not a cleanly managed process with working social systems to handle the overlap. The social safety net payout amounts are all based on a federal minimum wage which is not sufficient to maintain a reasonable standard of living in any state. Some of the numbers we still use today to determine eligibility, benefit amount, share of cost etc. are from the eighties, while others are from the sixties.

Each major disruption has literally caused people to die because there has not been enough management of the transition. If you say that AI will be no different, and you also say that the change should be celebrated, then you're saying we should celebrate negative effects up to and including deaths.

The Democrats differ from Republicans in important respects, but few of them are economic. The differences are mostly in the area of human rights. They are united in selling out our future for kickbacks from profit today. Democrats crowing about how well "the economy" is doing when the wins are all for the ultra-wealthy is typically on brand, but the Republicans do the exact same thing so that doesn't illustrate any difference between the parties or any reason to vote for one over the other. Those reasons are all somewhere else.

Hire some people that people will listen to, and release some articles telling people what to do.
You will find it helpful to have financial backers, and of course you will only find those who can profit from what you intend to say...

It's common throughout the parts of this county that aren't way out in bumfuck, or IOW, the parts which have any significant number of people in them.

But that's where the available capacity is supposed to be coming from. Otherwise they'd have to run new wiring. The LEDs are a lot better focused (sometimes excessively so) so you don't need as many total lumens output, which also reduces the power consumption.

They do if they're doing the low-level charging we can get from streetlights without a project to retrofit the wiring, increasing the cost of the installation. And there isn't the money to do what we could do without that. The state is running a deficit right now, so there's no state funding available. The federal funding available now is only for installation on interstates. So it's flatly just not happening.

Tesla has been running at a loss to grow the company. Most of their vehicles are profitable, cybercrap notwithstanding. That dumpster is a huge fuckup, though, there's no way around that.