claymore

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[–] claymore@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird... I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔

[–] claymore@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes it runs on windows, if I recall it's to pass data from storage to the GPU directly without passing through the CPU. Which lowers CPU usage and speeds up things like game loading or texture streaming for example. You probably found references to Xbox because it was implemented there first with the launch of the current gen consoles.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are you closing the spectacle window after taking a screenshot? I found that you need to keep it open for the image to stay in the clipboard. When I have the time I can check how I've set it up if that doesn't work for you. Although I only copy to clipboard, not save as well.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They added that a while ago for all users on Android 12 and up

[–] claymore@pawb.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't you just reinstall windows with an older ISO to bypass this? That's what I already do at work anytime I need to setup a new machine, gets rid of the manufacturer supplied ~~programs~~ bloatware. Plus Rufus has an option for triggering the bypass command automatically.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This was in the related articles: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-denies-firmware-blocks-third-party-toner-and-ink-use

And I believe them. The reddit post in Rossman's video was 3 years old. I have personally installed and updated 5 Brother printers in the last year and they all still run on 3rd-party toner.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, really depends on what kind of music you listen to. I guess I'm lucky in that regard, since most artists I listen to have their music on BC ^^

[–] claymore@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

If you really need to download the music on your phone you could use the website. I just organise everything on my PC then copy the files over.. But I agree that it would be nice to have DRM free downloads on the app

[–] claymore@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I feel I should mention Bandcamp, which gives 70% of a sale directly to the artist. In the music world that's a lot. All DRM free and in most audio formats you could want. My process when buying music is usually: bandcamp > qobuz (or similar) > if all else fails... use other means. I'll also skip step one and two depending on the artist :p

 

Commission I got from Corbin on Furaffinity

 

Edit: So after an exciting evening of uninstalling drivers, rebooting, playing a round of CSGO and starting over, I can report that nothing is broken. I haven't tried much other than a handful of games though. In the end I removed the drivers in batches, uninstalling all versions of a major version together (all 515.*, then 520.*, then 525.* etc).

Of note is that all the drivers I removed were the 32 bit versions, since the 64 bit one updated properly. This is what's left of the drivers, I believe these are all actually needed and I'm not comfortable removing any of them (and even if they're not needed the space savings would be minimal anyway):

Name                                 Application ID                                             Version                       Branch                  Origin                                 Installation
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                        23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-54-03                                             1.4                     flathub                                system
Mesa                                 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08                   flathub                                system
Mesa (Extra)                         org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                      23.1.1                        22.08-extra             flathub                                system
nvidia-535-54-03                     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                                           1.4                     flathub                                system

Original post:

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows why flatpak keeps tons of Nvidia driver versions installed. Currently on my Fedora install I have:

Name                        Application ID                                    Version              Branch        Origin                       Installation
nvidia-510-68-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-57               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-57                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-65-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-65-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-515-76               org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-76                            1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-520-56-06            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-520-56-06                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-60-11            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-60-11                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-78-01            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-78-01                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-85-05            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-85-05                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-525-89-02            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-89-02                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-530-41-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-530-41-03                         1.4           flathub                      system
nvidia-535-54-03            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03                         1.4           flathub                      system

A few months ago, when a new Nvidia update came out, usually what I'd do is update then run flatpak uninstall --unused, which would get rid of the older version no problem. As you can see, around driver version 510 this stopped working. If I try to remove them manually with eg. flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02, I get this:

Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 branch 1.4:
   com.valvesoftware.Steam
Really remove? [y/n]:

My question is, is Steam actually using these drivers? Are these safe to remove? I'd like to get rid of them since they're bloating my root partition and updating 10 driver versions takes ages.