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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Aghast@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bumblebee