Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. : technology

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Sucks to suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Hacker sanctions are finally real.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh nyoo, they'll have to use the open source ones!!
Haven't the common folk been through enough?

/s
(And the open sauce nVidia drivers got actually completely viable, great effort & results)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

They could still just download the official drivers straight from the NVIDIA website with a VPN. Or from a mirror without one.

Did NVIDIA stop selling videocards in Russia? The article doesn't mention it.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago

This has no sense

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They will just come up with a new Runix OS with Ruvidia drivers. It might be like the time the Germans invented modern rocketry, the pulse engine and the turbine engine.

It's relatively bad news maybe. Same in China.

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[+] [email protected] -8 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

There aren't many uses where discrete v-cards are needed now and where integrated won't be enough. Machine learning, content editing, engineering and science, mostly. So besides making purchased v-cards less effective or useless, it aims at top consumers, industry, may it be media or production facilities, including MIC. Ah, and gamers, the most opressed minority.

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Why bother when these blocks are so easily circumvented with VPN?

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, that's fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, but so are Russians, so it works out.

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