OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

OK, maybe you wouldn’t pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t. It’s that simple.

Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.

Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, “Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work.”

  • CyborganismEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Oh hey, I have question for you then. Are you using any braille system with your computer? Or is it a kind of voice reader thing you have going on? What do you use for reading posts and comments on Lemmy?

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I use my phone a lot more frequently than I use my computer and I use the TalkBack screen reader on my phone primarily. I can read and write Braille of course and have been able to do so since I was a little kid but I don’t do it very often primarily because I’ve always found reading to be slow for me and so I prefer audio. I’m able to better absorb information through audio than through reading it directly and always have been.

      Edit: I’m not totally blind so my primary navigation is through memorization of where things are and then to read posts and stuff like that that’s long I use the screen reader. So, for example, on my home screen, I know where I’ve placed my app icons, so I can just easily navigate to them, and in settings, for example, I know roughly where the menus are that I’m looking for, and so can navigate to them quickly. I also use the magnification gestures a lot. So, primarily, I navigate with memorization, magnification gestures, and screen reader for longer stuff.