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  • They’ll still be slow, as I really doubt that anyone will manage to reclock the cards, ever. Hopefully, now that they’re supported by the NVK driver, which is likely getting a lot more attention than Nouveau’s OpenGL driver and supports Vullan, performance might improve.

    According to Collabora (main developers of NVK, I think) & a few other sources (I haven’t run any benchmarks myself), NVK + Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) is a bit faster than Nouveau on newer cards, for which it is now the default. The older cards still default to Nouveau, but as I understand it, it’s just in case there are issues with them.

    So, they are a bit nore compatible now. They should also be a bit more performant now (if you use Vulkan instead of OpenGL & NVK works) or soon(er or later) (when NVK gets faster or the cards switch to Zink on NVK).

    Nvidia drivers are a bit confusing on linux, so I’ll list them here, just in case (at leas as far as I understand them):
    Kernel drivers:
    Closed source official driver
    Open source official driver
    Nouveau Nova (WIP)

    Userspace drivers:
    Official driver (supports both officiql kernel drivers)
    Nouveau (OpenGL only, supports the Nouveau kernel driver)
    NVK (Vulkan only, OpenGL via Zink, supports the Nouveau kernel driver, will support Nova)

    Kernel drivers run in the kernel & talk with the GPU, while userspace drivers talk with the kernel drivers, as far as I understand.

    Both NVK & Nouveau’s userspace driver are part of Mesa.

    All the Nouveau drivers are often just called “Nouveau”, but they’re all located in different places. (Nouveau also has a Xorg driver, which isn’t important here.) Also, the package for NVK is (at least on some distributions) called vulkan-nouveau (Arch) or similiar.

    TL;DR: The situation should be at least a bit better now and it should be easier to improve. Also, Nvidia drivers on Linux are confusing.

    P.S.
    I have a device with an intel integrated GPU & one with a Nvidia 2000 series GPU. Everything works with the intel one (and I would assume AMD), but Nvidia sometimes causes problems on the other device.

    It was some time since I tried NVK on it, but performance was much better with the official drivers. It’s probably much better now, and I’ll probably have time & motivation to test it in a week or few, after getting a few other things out of the way first.

    Depending on your card, luck, setup, needs & distribution, Nvidia could just be a minor annoyance (enabling non-free repositories and/or some manual configuration with the official drivers, or not quite enough performance with Nouveau) to larger problems (broken greeter/DE/WM/etc., problems with secure boot signing or something else with the official driver or horrible performance or lack of support for extensions with Nouveau).

    If you’re looking for a GPU, I’d recommend avoiding Nvidia. Official drivers work pretty well now (most of the time), but can cause headaches and the amount of time I’ve spent troubleshooting is not completely insignificant. There are still a few (pretty small) problems I haven’t been able to resolve. This is in contrast to the intel iGPU, with which I don’t remember any problems.

    Edit/P.P.S.
    Sorry for the wall of text.


  • Did they use sane or Windows-style newlines? Windows-style line endings are not supported everywhere.

    Edit:
    Variable-width handwriting is no longer considered a best practice and has been deprecated for some time. If the program did not compile with sane line endings, try rewriting the program in monospace, as support for legacy handwriting styles may have been dropped from non-LTS compiler releases.


  • It doesn’t say anything about performance. But they now support Vulkan with Nouveau, so it can now be used even if OpenGL is not available or broken.

    The blog post only me tioned that the driver now supports the GPUs, which I think should be believable, as the GPUs are listed as conformant on Khronos’ website.

    If you have had problems with a Wayland compositor when using Nouveau with one of the cards, it is possible that it might work now, if the compositor supports Vulkan.

    Vulkan is normally faster than OpenGL, but I don’t know much about the state of NVK & Nouveau’s OpenGL driver for the cards. I just know the API versions they support and that NVK cannot reclock them if Nouveau can’t, so I can’t say anything about performance.


  • I haven’t used nextcloud, but having /var on an actual disk might help, if nextcloud writes to it often. Even if it doesn’t, it might still help a bit as a lot of software does, so it will still reduce the writes to the SD card.

    You don’t actually need much on your root partition. Only /etc, /bin, /lib & if it’s separate, /sbin. Most distributions (inc. recent Debians, not sure which version rpi os uses) have symlinked /bin, /sbin & /lib with their /usr counterparts. This means that the binaries & libraries actually reside under /usr, so it has to be on the root partition, but /usr/local should be safe to move.

    This means that you can put all the absolutely required directories on the SD card and everything else on a real drive.















  • Be careful, depending on how underage you are. I’d assume that this isn’t the case for you, but really young children have very underdevelopes livers that cannot handle any ethanol. From what I’ve read, for school-age children (something like 5-7 years), a few glasses is completely harmless. But depending on how strong your sima is, while a bit more should still be harmless, it might be good to stay on the safe side. For anyone older, I think it should be OK, as long as you don’t chug down a barrel of the stuff.

    I don’t know if there are any good recipes in english, but IIRC firefox should be able to translate finnish now. I could also translate a recipe for you if you want.


  • The practically non-alcoholic mead is called sima here and as it’s traditionally drunk around may day, it’s pretty much in season now.

    I don’t know how it compares to real mead, but from what I remeber, it shouldn’t be too troublesome to make.

    If I remember correctly, you let lemon slices sit in hot water & honey for a while, then put the solution in a large, empty soda bottle with some raisins & a bit of yeast. Put the bottles in the fridge. It’s ready when the raisins float to the surface. Though I’d recommend following an actual recipe.

    I don’t know how much alcohol homemade sima usually has, but commercial simas range from 0-0.8% from what I’ve seen, so the same as alcohol-free beers.

    Of course, it can have a lot more if you add enough yeast and allow it to ferment, or less if you drink it the next day.

    In the end, it depends on why you avoid alcohol. You won’t get drunk no matter how much sima you drink, as long as you use a reasonable amount of yeast. But, if you have a bad liver or are on medictions, you should probably abstain.