And repaste it if you’re going this far

Just like Ubuntu and several other distros they have a server focused variant

GPUs that are banned from export to China can be easily acquired in low numbers in the country due to individuals bringing in banned GPUs which get sold just like unbanned GPUs after passing through several people. Also possible that some banned cards are repaired QC failures from the Chinese factories that produce these cards (the cards are produced in China, but are supposed to be exported and banned from export back into China). The export restrictions present more of a barrier for building out large AI clusters with many, many GPUs.
Nvidia almost certainly knows about this but turns a blind eye because they want to sell more cards and China is a large market.
There are some repair shops in China that can not only repair the GPUs, but can also transfer the GPU die onto an aftermarket PCB and give it double the amount of VRAM to create a card that Nvidia doesn’t even sell.
Individual banned GPUs are easier to get than the full systems that Nvidia also sells. AMD GPUs are much less popular, Intel GPUs are basically non-existent. The overall most popular card for smuggling into China seems to be the RTX 4090.

Fair enough, but I think the DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME command you’ve got now will only work for DXVK, if you launch a game that uses vulkan directly (rather than via translating DirectX calls through DXVK) you might possibly find the game running on the wrong GPU, just bare that in mind

• For Steam apps, the previous method doesn’t work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%

Steam runs the commands to launch the games directly, so editing .desktop files won’t affect anything launched through steam directly.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 is related to the graphics back ends, so I wouldn’t use it for selecting the GPU, as, while it might work for making a game use the dedicated GPU, it probably won’t work reliably as you’ve discovered. For setting a game to run on the NVIDIA GPU I think PRIME and NVIDIA Optimus are the solution, but I can’t help you much since all my systems have only a single GPU enabled. One of the following 3 launch options in steam should work:
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only %command%

DRI_PRIME=1 %command%

prime-run %command%

What bill?

111 isn’t an urgent line (if it’s genuinely an emergency go to A&E or call 999) and from personal experience it takes hours for them to get back to you, at which point you’ve either already told them your symptoms have got worse, still had no call back and gone to A&E or they get back to you eventually and tell you that you might be fine, but should go to the hospital anyway and sit in a queue for 6 hours so they can make sure it’s not actually something serious. NHS 111 is just as useless as the NHS Direct it replaced

For GP appointments that are released on the day, in the morning, you can avoid waiting in a long call queue to the GP by booking the appointment through the NHS app if your GP supports it.

I wonder if the “metal cubes” were tungsten cubes that the AI was just pricing as if it was some cheap steel cube or something

Readeck also has a KOReader integration via OPDS catalogue

From what I’ve seen recently one of the things it did was use a fake email function they gave it to try to whistleblow to a government agency about issues with some medical testing or something

Unlimited, but with reduced upload speed after 5TB. It’s Jottacloud for €119 per year. I use it with rclone which lets me encrypt everything myself so I don’t have to trust the provider.

I mean the original anti-piracy ad said you wouldn’t steal a car, because they were trying to equate digital piracy with physical theft, it’s the meme edits that say you wouldn’t download a car

Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I’ve only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.

Hope you manage to beat the cancer!

For security disable password authentication - use public key instead, disable root login via ssh - use sudo or su from another user.

To reduce the number of attempts of others trying to get in change the ssh port and/or set-up fail2ban.

You could also set a firewall rule to only allow ssh from your IP address, if you have a static address at home and only need access from there, or have a way to VPN into your home network. Make sure you have a static address if you do this though, you don’t want your IP to change and be left locked out of your server.