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  • tiddy@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    Kinda feel like they said something like

    “I think everyone should have food”

    And you responded with

    “you want a Walmart on every block in the world?? do you even know the environmental impact that will have? Poor people are really to blame anyways because they’re not voting with their wallets enough”

    How an asshole can mess something up is entirely independent of how a proper implementation might not mess up

    Edit to say: I think this is what they meant in their comment about (American) capitalist propaganda; You dont realise your implicit bias enforcing that it must be a capitalist implementing it without any external input.

    To the rest of the world he’s just an infamous citizen in a dying country, who would never realistically have 1/10th the pull needed to enforce that BS internationally; by starting the conversation at best he’d speed up external implementations.





  • 4% of US alone is 12 million people.

    If even 25% of them decide hardware purchases based on driver support, 3 million sales isn’t ignorable.

    (The number of PCs sold globally per year is similarly 300,000,000, so even then theyd lose out on 12 million potential sales YEARLY)

    The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I’m sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.











  • Only sort of, quoting this article

    much of the important graphics code isn’t actually open-source. Nvidia appears to have moved much of its proprietary code into the firmware on its graphics cards, which the open-source code interacts with.

    So while they did ‘open source’ their drivers, theyre also not accepting contributions that aren’t in house. The codebase is too locked down to benefit other projects like NVK, as a true FOSS project would be.