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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by lolinder on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:47PM (#42627990)
I've bricked multiple systems just running apt install on the Nvidia drivers. I have no idea how, but I run the installation, everything works fine, and then when I reboot I can't even boot.

That was years ago, but it happened multiple times and I've been very cautious ever since.

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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by godelski on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @03:53PM (#42638324)
Interesting. I've never had that issue (~15 years experience) but I always had CPUs with graphics drivers. Do you think that might be it? The danger zone was always at `startx` and never before. (I still buy CPUs with graphics drivers because I think it is always good to have a fallback and hey, sometimes I want to sacrifice graphics for GPU compute :)
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