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Re:Nvidia DGX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed... by advael on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:48PM (#50371288)
Yes, it seems a lot of companies can make a lot of money from fuckery like controlling what their customers can do with the devices they sell and deliberately sabotaging those devices for some customers via this control. What's your point? Am I supposed to support any practice a company can find a way to make money off of?
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Re:Nvidia DGX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed... by nomel on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:21PM (#50371726)
> What's your point?

That them trying to protect IP around something very profitable isn't crazy. That not being fully supported in Linux, when the product was literally designed around Windows, also isn't crazy or really evidence of anything, including evil (see the whole fucking history of Linux compatibility of made-for-Windows hardware).

Maybe let them cook.

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Re:Nvidia DGX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed... by advael on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:49PM (#50372033)
In general, the history of linux compatibility for nvidia specifically has been the research and open-source communities dragging them kicking and screaming into compliance while they do significant work to prevent compatibility via fuckery
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