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

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  • Mereo@lemmy.catoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldRetirement in the USA is a scam
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    My brother or sister, invest in index funds, not the stock market. And then forget about it for 30 years or more until you retire. And then, if you invest in index funds, there will be ups and downs.

    The trick is to stay the course because it has been proven that the price will always go up from when you started investing. And then, in 30 years or more, you will have a substantial amount of money for retirement.













  • 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.