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submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

bumble-bee thingy

I was going to say wrong transformer because the technology was called nVidia Optimus

But apparently there's an utility named Bumblebee to deal with it.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha there is no way that's accidental, typical nerd naming, I love it

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Oh my gosh I'm so dumb. I've read the name of that tool dozens of times and never made the connection until now.

[–] Aghast@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I think he was referring to the GPU switching software to make Optimus work on Linux.