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One of the most bizarre film scoring decisions in film history was placing Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Are Falling on My Head" song -- music and lyrics -- in the midst of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). The studio was understandably concerned that it didn't fit. It went ahead that way anyway, and created an instant classic.
- I kinda have a different view. That scene/song kinda ruin the whole movie for me. Apart from the song itself (which I have never particularly liked) the scene does nothing to advance the story.
From my experience watching play authors and directors mount a show, it seems that one of the hardest tasks for them to do is to cut lines and scenes, yet that kind of editing almost always improves the audience experience.
Just the other week I was at a table read of a rarely done Shakespeare play. I was following along with the full, uncut text and seeing all the lines and, even, pages, that were being elided to make the long show more palatable to an audience.
@karlauerbach A lot of people felt that way initially, including reportedly Redford. However, it certainly did not damage the success of the film. The song became a giant hit, and the film blew out box offices around the country and became the top grosser in the U.S. and Canada in 1969. It won four Academy Awards out of seven nominations, including -- you guessed it -- Best Original Song. Of course a lot of experimental film making was going on during that period, some more successful than others.
Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this smash hit set in the Old West. The Sundance Kid (Redford) is the frontier's fa...
That whole section of Butch and Sundance is to me so dissonant, it completely upends the vibe of the entire movie. The Wild Bunch is a better "closing of the American West" picture, IMO, because it avoids the saccharine.
Before I move ahead with doing these (audio-only, with Live Chat) podcasts on #YouTube, I've been asked already to broaden topics out beyond obvious tech and policy and political issues to include other areas that I write about sporadically and/or have been involved in, like classic films/TV, my time working on the first "Star Trek" movie (ST:TMP), and other assorted flotsam and gypsum. Works for me if it doesn't bore you guys to distraction.
when you do it "audio-only", does that mean the video rectangle is just all-black? or would you use it to share illustrations or a slide-show or something like that? Or is that where the live-chat shows up?
@eigen There will be an info slide and sometimes other stuff. Just not me. No camera will be used. YT puts the live chat to the side of the video viewer.
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I'm planning on getting a laptop within the next month which will be my daily driver for university, and it has a RTX 5060. I know people have lots of issues with NVIDIA on Linux, but I don't know of any specific issues. What issues can I expect running Fedora 42 (KDE) on this device?
I am not responding to most comments here, but I am silently taking them into account.
I had some weird issues with my 3080 Ti on Fedora 41 and 42 and have recently switched to a 9070 XT.
Most games ran fine, but other programs acted strange while games were open. Space Engineers, Escape from Tarkov, and a couple other titles wouldn't allow me to use other programs. The cursor would stay the same as in-game, even when alt-tabbed, and the Discord UI would become unresponsive.
I had several strange issues with my monitor flickering that didn't resolve until I uninstalled and reinstalled my drivers.
I had a horrible issue with Minecraft and other OpenGL games that caused a strobing white screen while playing. I forgot how I resolved that one.
I had to reinstall drivers several times. I don't know how much of it was self-inflicted or just how it goes on Linux.
None of these issues have come up while on my 9070 XT.
Yeah I have a 3070 and have experienced similar sorts of minor annoyances when using Wayland. When I see reports that issues are fixed I try a Wayland session and still find various oddities or issues.
They may be marginal useages but for me I have a dual screen set up and I might game on one and have a video open on another, or even have two video streams open, one on each screen. I find videos slow down and lag, or have artefacts. Issues I don't get on X11 or when I was in windows.
I'm in the same position of looking to upgrade my graphics card and I'm looking at AMD to avoid any more Nvidia related issues. I love using Linux but I don't want to be dealing with Nvidia drivers after past experience.
I use Prismlauncher, it's great for managing multiple versions with different mod lists, Java versions, etc. Nice, clean interface, and you get a background cat!
The Nvidia issue is overblown IMO. Yes, it used to be petty bad a couple of years ago with bugs and glitches all over the place, especially with Wayland. These days not so much. Just use the proprietary Nvidia drivers and you will have a solid experience. It's honestly been over a year since I last had an issue that I could narrow down to Nvidia hardware.
Just make sure to read some reports from people with the same model of laptop. Laptops with very specific hardware can have compatibility issues.
I get what you're saying but I don't think it's overblown having put up with issues myself with a mainstream 3070 card. A year really isn't very long and it's been a series of issues for me. When I've seen reports that the issues are fixed I have tried Wayland sessions and still find basic problems like video lag on my dual 4k set up without any clear solution. I have an Nvidia GPU and I avoid Wayland as a result.
My feeling is that they've fixed the issues perhaps for most useage cases but not all, and it can be enough for just 1 unfixed issue to ruin your experience.
I have a 3070 and am Linux only now; I'm currently looking at an upgrade for my GPU and genuinely I'm not even looking at an Nvidia GPU such have the annoyances been with Nvidia and wayland support. Many people who want specific features of Nvidia cards may not be so lucky
Even if Wayland support is fixed, I'm in the category of once bite twice shy with Nvidia on linux.
I definitely had issues with my 3070. I ran it in Linux for 4 years before recently switching back to AMD. It was usually only minor issues like it not playing well with certain DEs, but sometimes certain driver versions would make my system unusable/unbootable until I could roll them back. I am glad some people never had it happen, but pretending like it wasn't a thing just makes you ignorant.
I don't know about that man. Installed Fedora 42 and GNOME to run with my RTX3080 and GNOME froze and crashed at random constantly. Installed KDE Plasma instead and it runs just fine.
I've been using Aurora which is an immutable distro based on Fedora. It's from the same guys who do Bazzite. I use it on my work laptop with a discrete Nvidia card. I've had zero issues with the video driver. (I use Bazzite on two desktop and a laptop at home, all with Nvidia cards).
I really like these universal blue distro because on the odd occasion that I have an issue after an update, I can reboot into a pinned working version of the system. There are only a couple of CLI commands to learn to pin and unpin the different systems. All currently available systems appear on the grub menu. It's kind of brilliant IMO.
Only downside is that installing RPM packages isn't recommended, but I've found pretty much everything I need through flathub. I have one RPM package installed for VeraCrypt (no flatpak and it doesn't work right in a container) but it hasn't caused any issues for me.
Edit: I should say I can't speak to the ongoing driver issues on the 50 series cards. The newest card I own is an RTX 3080 LHR 12 GB.
Yeah, can't recommend Aurora enough. It's awesome to have literally 0 driver issues, since the system image already contains the drivers pre-installed.
@Interstellar_1 This is the issues I've run into with nVidia gpus. The open source drive, nouveau is incomplete at best and can't take full advantage of features, the drivers provided by nvidia are never up to date with the most recent kernel so you are FORCED to run kernels a few issue old unless no changes to the driver interface has been made in recent history AND if your card is older than eight years and sometimes not even that, nVidia abandons it so you are back to only nouveau drivers. I have not had these issues with Intel graphics or AMD.
I have a 3070 and generally I have no issues with gaming or working in X11.
I have previously had major issues with Nvidia and Wayland and I don't use Wayland as a result on that machine . Many of those issues may have been resolved now but at present there isn't a need to be using Wayland although it is being increasingly pushed. Problems I had were laggyness in the desktop, and videos becoming choppy if I had more than one major process running on the GPU (eg game and video in browser, or two browser windows both with video). I believe such issues have been fixed in the past 12-18m but I'm now in the habit of using X11 on the machine with no incentive to try Wayland again for now.
It is very easy to avoid Wayland - as simple as ensuring X11 is installed and then logging out of a Wayland desktop session and logging into an X11 session once and keeping with that as the default.
I do have a separate AMD machine with integrated GPU and that has been running Wayland from the get go. On that machine I've never even had to think about this issue and have just let my fedora based distro (Nobara) default to Wayland. It's been very much an Nvidia issue.
As long as you're using modern drivers, such as 570 or later (preferably 575), your experience should generally be fine.
Nvidia rightfully earned their bad reputation on linux, but over the last year or two they've put a ton of work into improving it, specifically in wayland support.
One of the last major open issues is DX12 performance. DX12 performance is kinda all over the place depending on your hardware, game, and game settings, but you can generally expect around a 20% performance hit to DX12 games compared to windows. DX11, opengl, and vulkan games perform about as well as windows. Dx12 performance on Nvidia has been a known issue for years and Nvidia was silent on it, but just a few months ago they finally publically acknowledged it and claimed they were working on it. In my experience, Nvidia typically pretends problems don't exist until they actually decide to fix them, so we can probably start expecting improvements to DX12 performance soon.
I've been exclusively gaming with Nvidia on linux (CachyOS) for about a year now and my experience has been satisfactory, so you should be fine.
Nvidia rightfully earned their bad reputation on linux,
Really? IMO not with GPUs. They have released linux drivers for decades, and always in time for new kernel versions. ATI was typically way behind and buggy as hell. I would likely not have switched to Linux on the desktop in 2006 if it wasn't for my GPU "just working", without any fiddling. Performance was always equal to Windows and stuff like multimonitoring just worked. They even had their nice setup utility to configure Xorg for you.
Could they have handled the transition to Wayland better? Maybe. But claiming they earned a bad reputation in regards to GPU when they are the one big vendor that had extremely active linux support for ages is dishonest and unwarranted, IMO.
They dragged their feet on wayland and tried to force EGLStreams for years, causing a ton of work for open source devs. Their drivers on linux are still significantly more annoying to install than AMD or Intel and still use proprietary userspace drivers. This all and more is the definition of earning their bad reputation.
You know what's dishonest and unwarranted? You trying to twist my words and imply I compared them to other manufacturers when I didn't. More than one company can rightfully earn a bad reputation, and ATI definitely did as well. Nvidia was indeed better for a long while, and then earned their bad reputation over the later 2010s and early 2020s.
Just use the newest driver and you'll be completely fine. Even with very recent hardware, everything works as expected for me.
People like to shit on Nvidia, which is deserved for their business practices and relationship with Linux in the past, however most who claim that there are issues clearly haven't used an Nvidia GPU under Linux in a long time.
It should work. The only practical issues are: - Usually, you will have to manually install the proprietary drivers (I think Fedora makes this relatively easy) - Wayland (the protocol most desktop environmentss use nowadays) support may be hit-and-miss at times (it will mostly work but it's not as polished as with Intel/AMD), and Proton (the thing that lets you play Windows games) may not play well either.
The ideological issue (which you probably don't care about) is that it pretty much requires proprietary (non-FOSS) drivers which run in kernel space and so in theory have complete access to all data on your computer (but then so does Intel ME). This is the main reason I personally will never use NVidia cards.
The ideological issue (which you probably don’t care about) is that it pretty much requires proprietary (non-FOSS) drivers which run in kernel space and so in theory have complete access to all data on your computer (but then so does Intel ME). This is the main reason I personally will never use NVidia cards.
The only meltdown I've had with Linux occurred on a minor rev-level update to Debian that plugged some hole in the kernel the NVidia proprietary driver was crawling through. I had used Debian and an NVidia proprietary driver for years on an ancient motherboard. Then suddenly that "solution" disappeared. I had to replace the whole machine. Yeah, it was time. No, I wasn't ready. I don't know whether I should have been more pissed at Debian or NVidia, but I'm still on Debian. After the kernel update, X11 reverted to a default driver, and no install, uninstall, reinstall combination of the proprietary drivers seemed efficacious. I'm sorry I don't remember the exact software rev-levels and drivers involved. All notes I took at the time, if any, were lost in the subsequent crash and recovery from incompetently trying to roll back the kernel update.
I have used both AMD and Nvidia cards on Linux for a long time and with Nvidia it's mostly fine now days, but their driver situation tends to be fine until the rare time that it isn't. I switched back to AMD last year due to the occasional driver issue that left me dead in the water. And by occasional I mean like once every year or so, not something common. It is entirely possible that you'll never have much of an issue, but I started to take note of my Nvidia driver versions and and especially noted when GPU drivers were updated so that I had some notion of where to try to roll back to if I ran into issues. I haven't had any issues like that with my AMD cards for a long, long time in Linux (with Windows obvious the situation was more of the reverse of this).
As long as the graphics isn't that hybrid Nvidia Optimus or whatever the hell they call it, you're good. That hybrid shit was a nightmare to get working, and it never worked right either.
I had to switch back to Windows for now since game performance was noticeably worse with my Nvidia card on Fedora vs Windows. Something running at around 130-144fps cutting down to 80-9fos as an example. So be prepared for that. From what I gather it's unique to Nvidia.
I couldn't game on Wayland for about 20% of my games (very frustrating), couldn't use specific Window Managers like Sway, experience constant screen tearing on X11 (which I often had to use, because the game would crash on Wayland) when gaming, and had a significant performance hit in some games.
CS:GO ran like a dream and actually better than on Windows, but with the release of CS2 my performance on Linux was about 20% worse than on Windows. My 1% lows were also crazy on Linux (median=190fps, %1=80fps). This meant, among others things, that I just couldn't play death match anymore — my FPS would make it unplayable. This was largely an optimization issue and I think some of the 2025 Nvidia driver updates of improved the situation a little for CS2 specifically. The screen tearing on X and the buggyness on Wayland were enough for me to switch though, even if eventual improvements might come.
I am now extremely happy with my 7900 XT, which I got for less than any available 9070 XT (in my region) and which amusingly actually has better performance in CS2 then then the 9070 XT on Linux. It's massively overkill though, I could have just as well gotten a 7800 XT or 9070 (non-XT).
I am still very, very pleased. Hopefully this will last me a few years, unlike the gosh darn 3060 Ti.
Alright, I'm done with my huge block of text. Hopefully this was helpful.
A lot of the info here reads as outdated to me, I have a 40 series card and on bazzite with open drivers it works with zero issues on major titles like Cyberpunk, Horizon, etc. The open drivers have come a long way. It took maybe 5 months post 40 series release for it to work 100% with no glaring issues for me, but 40 series was also the first cards to be launched with the open drivers so it makes sense there'd be hiccups
The only issues I've had on Wayland are color related.
Christmas the first year we were dating I bought my girlfriend a 3 foot tall stuffed male lion. Years later when we got married it stood in the corner of our bed room. It had been standing there of like a year or two. One day my wife was vacuuming and putting the lion on the bed for obvious reasons. Or first cat Raz came in on jumped on the bed. She to one look at the lion and went full hiss, caterwauling, arched back, hair standing up further than I thought it could. We both died laughing.
Funny thing is it wasn't the last time she did it. She was ok with it in the corner but on the bed was strictly off limits for Leo.
If you're wondering, she was the only one that did that.
Silly question. In their post, Let’s Encrypt writes:
> Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure.
These tens of thousands of dollars a year — do y’all think those costs came mostly from sending emails themselves? Said otherwise, how expensive is it these days to be a company that sends lots and lots of email? mastodon.social/@campuscodi/11…
Free Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt has ended its email notification service that warns users of expiring certificates.
The company blamed this on rising costs.
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/06/26/expiration-notification-service-has-ended/
who in this day and age is relying on email notifications for anything of importance?? This has always been a best-effort system with a zillion silent points of failure, and people's inboxes (and providers) are flooded with junk (and increasingly, AI classification systems of dubious reliability). Using email to notify someone of something important is basically a worst practice at this point.
eu acho um barato como os jornalistas esportivos no Brasil pronunciam Manchester City como se fosse um nome eslavo. eu sempre ouço algo como Manszes Tercić, como se eles falassem um nome com a mesma terminação de Modrić, tovarich, ou do sobrenome de praticamente qualquer jogador da seleção da Iugoslávia de 1982 😉
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@zephyrotv @mrman @DaddyO Oh, so the homosexual pedophile Jesse Coy Nelson, aka @SiRrogueKnight, simply has a worm in his butt, and it's not a deviant social behavioral disorder.
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I was actually kinda wondering the other day why super large content creators with good cash flow from what they already do, don't ditch Google and Patreon or anything else that takes a cut to be nothing more than a middleman to accessing the content? They don't need to host on the same level as YouTube; they could probably make more money hosting their videos on their own website, where they can control what is free or paid for, and can work directly with advertisers themselves.
And how do they get big? How do they get discovered? SEO ?
They're getting huge because of the platform.
I'm not saying google is not evil but it literally gives them their audience.
I watch YT more than anything else by a mile, and if my top subscription moved to their website, and I had to jump through hoops to watch them on my TV device, by installing a browser or something I probably would stop watching them or watch them way less. Another TV friendly app sure that wouldn't be a problem, but I don't see many doing that.
I'm talking about those who have already gotten big, like PewDiePie or Good Mythical Morning (the latter of which started on their own website before youtube even existed, btw). Not the dude who just started a channel last week and has nothing to do shit with.
@June Moon Couldn't agree more, paying compound interest drives all kinds of evil and the money gets used to genocide neighbors, so yes END THE FUCKING FED. This scam has gone on for 112 years, FAR TOO LONG.
So let me be really clear about this. I feel that autonomous vehicle tech, and AI tech generally, are both amazing developments. I know a fair bit about how all this stuff works behind the curtain, so as a technologist my entire life I appreciate technology.
I also feel that the manner in which these technologies are being deployed in society by Big Tech billionaires are more and more dangerous, supportive of fascist goals, and increasingly vastly damaging to society overall.
Chinese team developed continuous fiber materials using high-titanium lunar soil simulant.
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A cybercrime group's attack against a London-based pathology service last year was one of the "contributing factors" in the death of a patient, U.K. officials said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Maksim Ryzhenkov has met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Unterscheißegruppenführerlos Miller, nazi white boy (oh, oops...maybe not) at any rate, give the fella credit for knowing how to profiteer on the cruelty and suffering--while ridding America of those JEWS! Er...oops...right, sorry, mean Latins! Starting with Latins....then whose next on the pogrom?
New York City's 2025 Democratic mayoral primary experienced a major upset when, on Tuesday night, June 24, progressive New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a self-described "democratic socialist" endorsed by Sen.
@Ann1944 Those who will not learn history are destined to repeat it, learn about the Bolsheviks, The Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even examine a modern day example of your utopia in North Korea. History may not repeat but it does rhyme and there are some rhymes I don't want to be a part of, like starving to death as the Bolsheviks did.
@June Moon I would vote for more IQ points for him so he didn't have to feel so inferior but unfortunately votes don't help that situation, mother's not on crack, father's providing for their children help, but the culture doesn't seem to promote those things.
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