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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Aye. The Nvidia control center was cool when I installed it for my Ti 4600 in 2002 and not much has changed. I’m not particularly fond but the aesthetics of the Radeon software, but it beats the heck out of the semi-useless GeForce experience. I have to make an account just to see if there’s a driver update available? I can’t even control fan speeds in Windows without third party software?

    They’re both bad but in comparison Nvidia’s offering is garbage.







  • Yes, this is technically true. However if you don’t run the executable you will not install the software. If you’re trying to install a cracked game you are going to have to put some trust in whoever released it. Up until relatively recently you couldn’t even use a VM since pretty much every game requires hardware acceleration.









  • Slightly off topic, but perhaps you can point me in the right direction. I recently upgraded my home router/NAT firewall to one that runs pfSense and it now supports IPv6. I was slightly horrified to find that DHCP had assigned all my devices IPv6 addresses and that they were all publicly routable. Comments online seemed to indicate that in order to protect devices on my local network from being probed by external entities I’d have to create custom firewall rules. I know just enough to know I didn’t want to do that as the likelihood of doing it wrong and compromising security far outweighed any benefit I’d see from IPv6. The only other option was to disable all IPv6 traffic at the firewall.

    What am I missing here? Is it intended that regular home users have their printer, which the manufacturer hasn’t seen fit to update since Bush Jr. was president, exposed to the entire Internet? Is it that the IPv6 space is so large that port scanning for vulnerable machines is like finding a needle in a haystack?