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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nvidia is on a roll with the shitty drivers lately.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They've been shitty for decades tbh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some of them bricked high end cards at some point didn't they ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I only remember the 3090 frying itself when playing New World, but, allegedly, that was only some units with faulty soldering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Even on Windows I'm scared to update them

Last time I did (a year ago) I had a performance drop and had to rollback

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'd rather they disclose problems and fix them than just ignore them like so many others do. It's the responsible thing to do.
Software is complicated and mistakes happen regularly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, don't worry, they do both

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh. Cool. Carry on then.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability which could allow an unprivileged attacker to escalate permissions. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.