Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

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Quoting: Dana SoulySteam removing NSFW and mature tags, because audience is not adult.
Sure Gabe, you're not an adult so am I not, also.

There's a developer content flag system that's independent of the user tags.

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Quoting: Linux_Rocksbut_why.gif

Imagine Baby Shark, for example, had been stuck in a significant chunk of all films, TV programs and computer games for 75 years because it's "funny." How would you feel the next time you heard Baby Shark?

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Also of note for the Germany/KDE connection is Blue Systems. [External Link]

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I really hate the Wilhelm scream. Kudos to Valve for the little joke, but I really hate the Wilhelm scream.

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Quoting: F.UltraBut companies making stuff without giving them money would be breaking trademark law and thus open to be sued by HDMI Forum,

Only if you use their trademarks - the logo and the name. Otherwise you're in the clear on that front. Patents and contractual obligations are a different matter, obviously, but if you don't use someone's trademarks then you have no liability for using their trademarks.

aka the reason that you pay for the specs is not to get access to the specs

No, you also have to pay for access to the spec just as access to the spec. That's the particular part that they were sniffy about AMD putting in an open source implementation. And that was a change for 2.1 that was different to earlier versions, AFAIK.

And the fee for the specs are minuscule, only $10k per year (or $5k for low volume manufacturers), the real money is the per sold item royalty (up to $0.2 for high volume and flat $1 for low volume) since that times millions of devices per year adds up quite significantly.

Sure, and their fear was that people would crib the spec from AMD's driver, and make anonymous actually-compliant devices without paying the tithe.

And fly-by-night would not be affected by open drivers since they already have the specs (they are ofc widely spread in China for free). But I guess that some of the members where afraid of that and others have now countered, we simply don't know who it was since all 80+ companies have voting rights (and their votes are not made public).

For sure. Hey, you thought their position was silly, I thought their position was silly, device makers, consumers, journalists all thought their position was silly. Hopefully now they've also realised that their position was silly. The likely outcome from them holding their silly position was that DisplayPort and older versions of HDMI become more attractive.

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Quoting: F.UltraPayment was never the issue though and AMD is and have been for years a HDMI licensee. There is nothing with these patches that would or could make HDMI Forum not get payed exactly what they where payed before.

I think the logic (from an artificial scarcity hoarding viewpoint) was that if they didn't keep the spec super secret, companies could just make stuff without giving them money. Which they didn't like the sound of. But, as you say, you still need to give them money (and AMD did) for the compliance tests and the sticker, and that's where the prestige is. "Proper" hardware companies will still give them money to remain "proper," and fly-by-night won't-conform-to-the-spec companies weren't going to give them money either way.

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Plenty of optimizations too, a bunch of which is for mobile chip

Note that the Frame uses Turnip. [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

It's definitely a better headline than "$vendor gets rid of unwanted inventory in a massive firesale," that's for sure.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOkay, well if you don't like them, toggle them off when you visit the page as you can do that now 👍

Like I said, I understand why you put it there. No worries. And, yeah, being able to turn it off was a great move.

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