But that’s not a supply chain attack. If projects or platforms are compromised and THEN their code is used by normal means of ingestion of said project, that would be a supply chain attack.
These are unofficial channels created as forks of existing projects in an attempt to fool users into using these instead.
This isn’t really a supply chain attack. It’s more social engineering: fake users, forks, and non-verified code. They’re taking advantage of the fact that most people don’t use verified releases or packages code from open source projects.
GitHub is not compromised, nor sending unintended payloads.
Well that’s exactly what the issue is, so there’s your solution. Easy to confirm with one command.
I’m pretty sure you’ve got a race condition with the Nouveau driver getting loaded first then. That’s the open source Nvidia driver in the stock kernels. Run lsmod | grep nouveau to confirm (if you get lines returned, then it’s loaded.
You can sidestep this by blacklisting it and giving the installed Nvidia driver a chance to load first. Instructions here (use the Ubuntu section)
Reboot, and then you should be good to go. If nvidia-smi still doesn’t show the correct output, you may need to just reinstall the driver packages again.
You say you haven’t been able to install Nvidia drivers, but then say you are using 550 drivers. Are you saying you can’t run any games or programs that engage your GPU? Open and terminal and run nvidia-smi and see what the output is.
What is the filesystem on these drives? If it’s NTFS, they will be mounted as read-only by default and show as owned by root. This is by design to prevent potential damage to NTFS filesystems which are technically a Windows-only thing. You do have the option of changing this behavior, but it will inevitably cause problems because the open driver to run these filesystems on Linux still runs into some MS proprietary filesystem issues. If you have the option of copying the files on each drive to your local drive, reformatting the externals into another more friendly filesystem, then copying the files back, you’ll be in a much better place. I would suggest exFat to make things simplest for you, since it sounds like you may be plugging those drivers into other Windows machines, potentially.
Literally said they don’t want immutable.