I was working on a project (vision related) and doing fine then all of a sudden now I'm fucking grumpy! This is gonna be a bitchfest post.
nvidia sdmanager is a pile of absolute dog shit. I've worked with fresh-out-school morons that could develop something better than this dog shit. I've stepped in shit that worked better than this. You can't flash a goddamn thing on it unless you are running exactly Ubuntu, and exactly 18.04 - nothing else is supported even though their fucking trash documentation says otherwise. What a huge fucking waste of my time! The workaround? just edit /etc/os-release to make it look like whatever shit you are running _looks_ like Ubuntu 18.04. Doesn't work on Windows (any version), doesn't work on a Mac, can be hacked to work in WSL on Windows if you don't mind spending 45 minutes dicking around.
This is a horrible developer experience and nvidia should bitch slap itself into unconsciousness and when it wakes up fire every fucking developer on staff and start over.
The fucking AIs, and these motherfuckers hallucinate like it's fucking Woodstock 24/7, cold probably do a better job at this point writing software! In fact, from what I've seen I think they just might...