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The morality of maintaining locks on older hardware

https://preview.redd.it/x4erip93nrxh1.png?width=636&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f19e481ebd5c95f1c697681a9146c24a847b4e5 Some artificially imposed restrictions on Nvidia cards have been exposed and bypassed by the modding community. They have exploited a bug in a signed boot-time firmware part that runs…

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  1. 2026-10-26 08:05 · r/LocalLLM
    The morality of maintaining locks on older hardware

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