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  • It is a public GPG key (not a Microsoft Publisher file) and while I don’t know, I assume it is used to verify that future updates are from Nvidia and not a malicious third party. It is really common (if not required) to install and trust a new gpg key when adding a new repository in Linux package managers, and done for safety reasons without privacy implications, and I am guessing this is what Nvidia is doing here.

    Where do you see any indication that it is used for identification of you/your machine?




  • If my desktop is sleeping, turning off my bathroom light will 2 out of 5 times wake up the pc.

    It’s a fluorescent lamp, so it is likely that it makes considerable noise on the electrical circuit when being toggled (and it’s a small apartment so all lights and outlets are on the same circuit)

    I believe I read a forum post from someone else experiencing the same thing, and they also had a Gigabyte motherboard. So it might be related to their bios/firmware implementation of wake-on-lan in some way.