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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 2 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Abishek_Muthian ◴[07 Jan 25 14:59 UTC] No.42623030[source]▶
I'm looking at my Jetson Nano in the corner which is fulfilling its post-retirement role as a paper weight because Nvidia abandoned it in 4 years.

Nvidia Jetson Nano, A SBC for "AI" debuted with already aging custom Ubuntu 18.04 and when 18.04 went EOL, Nvidia abandoned it completely without any further updates to its proprietary jet-pack or drivers and without them all of Machine Learning stack like CUDA, Pytorch etc. became useless.

I'll never buy a SBC from Nvidia unless all the SW support is up-streamed to Linux kernel.

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lolinder ◴[07 Jan 25 15:36 UTC] No.42623475[source]▶
This is a very important point.

In general, Nvidia's relationship with Linux has been... complicated. On the one hand, at least they offer drivers for it. On the other, I have found few more reliable ways to irreparably break a Linux installation than trying to install or upgrade those drivers. They don't seem to prioritize it as a first class citizen, more just tolerate it the bare minimum required to claim it works.

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stabbles ◴[07 Jan 25 15:39 UTC] No.42623519[source]▶
Now that the majority of their revenue is from data centers instead of Windows gaming PCs, you'd think their relationship with Linux should improve or already has.
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lolinder ◴[07 Jan 25 15:41 UTC] No.42623558[source]▶
It's possible. I haven't had a system completely destroyed by Nvidia in the last few years, but I've been assuming that's because I've gotten in the habit of just not touching it once I get it working...
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godelski ◴[07 Jan 25 19:16 UTC] No.42626162[source]▶
I update drivers regularly. I've only had one display failure and was solved by a simple rollback. To be a bit fair (:/) it was specifically a combination of new beta driver and a newer kernel. It's definitely improved a ton since 10 years ago I just would not update them except very carefully.
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1. lolinder ◴[07 Jan 25 21:47 UTC] No.42627990[source]▶
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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2. godelski ◴[08 Jan 25 20:53 UTC] No.42638324[source]▶
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 :)