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I don’t use that shitty application. Just use Nvidia Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel. That application is data collection spyware.
They are denying us the power of the digital age, taking it for themselves.
How the fuck does this protect kids? Adjusting graphics settings? Why not bar them from adjusting volume while they’re at it.
Some of those graphics might be showing boobies. Obviously this must be regulated.
No it is not. Dont be a fucking ridiculous idiot.
Nvidia app is DEI woke. Gotta protect the kids.
wow, wow there. no loud music after 8. If the nightstand mic doesn’t pick up the nightly potus prayer, your front door is getting bust open
So it sounds like the wall was written to police more than just porn sites? Or is this companies doing this to harvest your data?
It’s to prevent autonomous agency. It’s to prevent people from having privacy and individuality end of discussion. The last system like this was under the gestapo and secret police under Hitlers regime.
You can download the Nvidia driver directly from their website
People who care about privacy wouldn’t use the Nvidia app. (And wouldn’t be on Windows)
Yeah, but Nvidia Cards on Linux are “fun”. Fuck Nvidia
They have worked for a while now. They just aren’t as good as AMD cards but that’s true on all platforms
gen z is pushing 30 btw
For the curious 1997-2012 28-13
This happens all the time. I still see what I call boomers (likely younger than actual boomers) call gen z millennials constantly. The oldest millennials are like mid 40s but in the popular imagination we are still kids in our 20s. It’s like society is 10-15 years behind almost
feels so grimm
NVCleanInstall lets you install NVidia drivers without using their GeForce Experience software
This is why I am AMD fanboy
This is why I wish I was AMD fanboy :((
This is why you Linux, point blank.
Linux beginners and Nvidia cards aren’t really a good mix in all fairness
That’s because people don’t really learn which operating systems work well for NVIDIA drivers. I’d recommend Mint, Pop_OS!, Nobara Project and CachyOS based upon their experience with computers. Those all work well with NVIDIA.
nvidia drivers in linux can be a monumental mess
Just don’t use a monitor that’s DRM’d for Windows only. I made that mistake with an FI27Q-SA (AORUS monitor) once, and that was a $600 US waste.
That certainly was the case for a long time. I’ve haven’t had any issues for 5+ years. Devs made it a priority.
On Linux you have no official GUI companion app for your graphics card from NVIDIA AFAIK.
On X11 you do (I think some distros ship it). Otherwise, that’s not necessarily the case on Wayland.
nvidia-settings is official
Nvidia is still closed source, even on Linux…
They did release Open Kernel drivers, which I hadn’t tested. Those are the “open-source” drivers. Sure, their firmware could be proprietary (though I didn’t see any issues with it).
Use the nouveau drivers of course
Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then it’s still a problem
We don’t have geforce experience on Linux (afaik). Ubuntu has a built in “proprietary drivers” app that just pulls the Nvidia drivers for you on first boot after install. Very low effort (on the happy path at least. If you use unsupported/brand new cards, you’re probably going to have a much less fun time)
Zoomers can’t be bothered to spell Nvidia correctly. I wouldn’t let ‘em install my drivers either 🥲
Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
They did the thing they were supposed to do. They voted for the Ultra-Far Left Woke Labour Party.
Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader, he grew up a Tory supporter, failed to get in as a Tory politician so decide on transforming Labour into the neo-Tory party which he was successful at, not that Labour before hand was the friend of the average worker or the poor but at least they were better, now they are hostile to the working class and the poor 😞
Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader
Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.
now they are hostile to the working class and the poor
Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.
I cannot tell if you are serious
Dumb take, here take my downvote.
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Labour are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.
Shh
Zoomers need to learn they don’t need to use Nvidia’s app for this. Just download the driver directly.
Not adjusting settings, but definitely auto updates which require a login and they’ve been adding more and more things that require an account so they can track you.
Literally nothing about their software should require a login.
It’s asinine
All of these people are future linux enjoyers, they just don’t know it yet.
The trend has accelerated this year, corpos are data mining and they want to court proof data against you.
It has been at least 10 years coming but it is now very clear for what they are going for here.
Between Israeli genocide and pedos within the power structure, the anti resime sentiment is growing too strong and it seems for once, fake news can’t change the narrative.
We are heading into the future where we won’t be able to criticize genocide or pedophiles.
Unfortunately it actually just means less computer literacy. If you can’t use a computer you just stay on your phone.
which is also easier to fingerprint!
any phone that aint grapheneOS, aint worth using imho
however, i doubt grapheneos team will be able to bring a phone to market. looks like US and EU will outlaw them anyway here soon.
You mean outlawing buying a second hand pixel phone and flashing it yourself?
Something like possession of in sanctioned device either related to terrorism or child abuze.
They will start light but it will have a cooling effect where only the brave will still do it and they will die off eventually.
I have been out of the loop for a while so please excuse my question: Is it really necessary nowadays to let NVIDIA software connect to the internet to enter/change the graphic card settings? Years ago they only had this bullshit tool for looking up pre-made settings and an update agent, but all you had to do was to not install both when running the driver setup. I can’t even remember the name of them, deselecting this crap became like muscle memory. Did NVIDIA really change that in the meantime?
This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
Are you actually able to do that now? You used to not be able to or they were sufficiently hidden.
You can just use the manual search tool on nvidia to find your driver. My understanding is the 9 & 10 series support is going to end soon.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/
When you run the installer you have a choice to install their app or not.
They’ve never been hidden. You just go to the website, put in your model and download it. There’s apps that do it for you now which is where this must be coming from. Still doesn’t change the fact you can directly download the driver.
Windows will do it for you as well but you have to enable it.
That’s what in used to use but there are some features you can’t access without the physx components so I get the whole package now. For baseline it’s good for sure.
Maybe they were harder to find on their site like a decade ago when I first got an Nvidia card and I just never tried looking again.
Nope. Always been that way. Enter model, choose platform, download drivers. Ive had to do it for at least a decade and a half since the nvidia program has never not borked out trying to update drivers.
you are speaking about the advanced search page, but I don’t even know how would I find it without my bookmark
lol. Yeah navigating any driver website is a pita. I just search nVidia driver download and it drops me there.
It’s been the same for 20 years at least. My first nVidia card was a geforce2 but I had an integrated SOC one that borrowed main board memory before that called a RIVA TNT 2. Prior to that had an ISA SVGA card but can’t remember who made it:
They’re hidden in the same sense that the real “download” button is hidden on most torrent sites.
