[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

VRMs (voltage regulator modules) are what bring the power to the CPU and these can get quite hot on high power processors. If you look around the socket on a motherboard, usually above and opposite the RAM, they are the big square/rectangle shaped components. Most high-performance motherboards have heatsinks on top of them to keep them from overheating, which your MB does not have.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wouldn't say it's impossible. I've done it pretty often at work (tech support) and at home with sim eject tools, pointy tweezers, knitting needles etc. 5 minutes of patience and the port is like new. Just need to avoid the centre where the contacts are.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

F-Droid probably won't accept any builds with adware/tracking in them, so probably we'll just stay on an old version until a fork or alternative comes along. There's also a toggle on my preferred F-Droid manager app (droid-ify) to ignore new versions

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Commission I got from Corbin on Furaffinity

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In the article it mentions that the SoC might have been chosen because on it's extended software support of 8 years. Industrial tier electronics also usually cost more than consumer counterparts, so unlikely a cost cutting measure

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Zenfone 10 got released in july this year. I'd buy it on the spot if the software support was longer. The only phone in recent memory that has good specs and also looks decent

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

you can type anything you want in both fields to skip it. a keysmash is my preferred method

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Well, Win10 Home and Pro EOL is late 2025, so it's tecnically correct...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Modern Gnome should in theory be able to adapt to any (reasonable) display size. So anything with recent enough repos would be a good fit

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right now I've only removed the oldest driver, and steam opened fine. No complaints in it's terminal output. For now I'm going to test a few games and once I remove a few more versions I'll edit the post.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I checked a few and all of them are bound to steam, nothing else, apart from the last one that's also being used by Blender. At this point i think I'll try uninstalling the oldest and check if steam still works. After that I'll work my way forward. Thanks

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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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neon White is good if you're into fast paced games. Music and visuals are also amazing

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