Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.

I transferred to this instance from https://lemmy.world. My previous profile: https://lemmy.world/u/Mereo

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  • I like to think of instances as countries. Each instance has its own rules and culture, and that affects how the communities are moderated. For example, the beehaw.org instance is heavily moderated compared to lemmy.world. Continuing with our example, the Technology community on beehaw.org will be moderated differently than the Technlology community on Lemmy.world.

    So each instance has its own reason for existing. Another example will be https://lemmynsfw.com/ which is an 18+ instance. Basically, when you register in an instance, you become a citizen of that country.

    So in summary, each instance has its own rules, its own policies, its own culture, and the moderators of the community that is that instance are bound by them. So unixporn@lemmy.world is not the same as unixporn@lemmy.ml.










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    5 months ago

    Many people are not activists like Richard Stallman. Perhaps it’s better to run libre software, but it’s perfectly reasonable to also run proprietary software.

    For example, I switched to Linux when I could run proprietary games on Proton.



  • A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:

    • Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.

    • User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.

    Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.