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It’s in the name… can’t access graphic content without ID, can we? /s
On a more serious note, what about AMD graphics cards?
Most zoomers are adults. 96 to 2010 means only the youngest zoomers are minors. In 3 years, every zoomer will be a legal adult.
gen z is pushing 30 btw
For the curious 1997-2012 28-13
feels so grimm
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
at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call their “great firewall”
b-but how are they going to protect us minors
from the evil NVIDIA app?!
serious talk tho the overreach was unsurprisinglol
Imagine if more people actually voted for candidates that shared their policy concerns instead of just complaining into the void. In a democracy, the people get exactly the government they deserve.
How would under age people vote? Where I am from, you can only vote at 18 (16 for some special elections), so bad luck if you are under 18 and want to be represented
Some* people get the government they deserve.
In a first-past-the-post system, the election outcome does not really reflect the will of the electorate. Which is why things are so fucked up in places that use these systems.
The British don’t seem to be doing so well anymore with their parliamentary system. it would appear that there is no governmental system that can’t be manipulated effectively anymore.
They have an FPTP system. This is exactly what I’m talking about.
Any time you have an election, the winning choice is always ‘first past the post’. No matter how many rounds of voting you place in the way.
Uh, no, that’s not how this works at all.
there are other methods, ranked choice for example
I get your point, but what those systems do is they don’t let massively unpopular candidates win by dividing the opposition and they let third parties compete without splitting the vote.
the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn’t have had enough influence to push it through regardless
the people get exactly the government they deserve.
You are extremely naive about “democracy”
You are taking the fake choices at face value
This is not democracy
Voting once in a while is not democracy, it’s not even politicsLook at the rotating cast of 100 or so loser leading just about every democracy, do you really believe that the current leaders really are these despicable, reprehensible, deceptive and bootlicking politicians are the best people among hundreds of millions of people ?
Of course not, what a crazy idea, and you want to blame the victim about it ? The victim which are US ??? How dare you !
Every country has their own version of first past the post, electoral college and all kinds of rules that ensure that even if they can’t apparently influence politics, the politics have nevertheless NEVER left the hands of the power elites. The people who have always owned everything and will always own everything. You might be feeling some protest and the desire to point to some “rags to riches” story to rebut me, but no you know just as well as I do that these exception are far and few in between and they don’t save the system.
The system designed to perpetuate the concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands, as much as possible, stopping just short of monopoly and kings unless we stopped looking.
Face it, our democracy is rotten bull shit ! It’s NOT OUR FAULT, it was rigged from the start by GOD DAMNED SLAVE OWNERS !!!
So stop repeating the thought terminating platitudes like “the people get exactly the government they deserve”, “it’s the worst system, except for all the others”, “western liberal democracy is the end of history”.
This was and always been fake no matter how much the elites want us to believe it.
Democracy was fake then, it is fake NOW and that is not even taking into account just how incredibly WORSE it is getting in recent years. Not only were the elites content with assassination of dissenters of anything that would champion any kind of change everywhere on Earth, from Martin Luther King to an endless series of political activists but now we have even worse and more deadly than assassinations going on.
Here are just a few of the new technology that ensure your old fake democracy will never EVER amount to anything and you will scientifically never matter to any kind of policy. (even though it was scientifically proven a decade ago that the people’s preference have no effect on congess’ policies)
The new nails in the airtight, steel reinforced concrete coffin of democracy are
1. Behavioral Microtargeting Data-driven psychological manipulation that hijacks emotions to steer voter behavior without their awareness. 2. Algorithmic Information Control Algorithms decide what people see and believe, shaping political reality to favor power. 3. Surveillance-Based Targeting Every movement, message, and purchase is tracked and fed into systems designed to pre-empt resistance. 4. Neuromarketing & Biometric Influence Ads and messages are engineered to exploit subconscious emotional and physiological responses. 5. Digital ID & Programmable Money Financial and identity systems can be weaponized to reward obedience and punish dissent instantly. 6. Rigged Electoral Architecture Voting systems and rules ensure only establishment-friendly candidates ever make it to power. 7. Deplatforming & Soft Censorship Unapproved voices are quietly erased, throttled, or discredited before they can gain traction. 8. Algorithmic Bureaucracy (AI Governance) Opaque algorithms control critical life decisions with no transparency or accountability. 9. Weaponized Legalism ("Lawfare") Laws are selectively enforced to crush dissent while protecting the powerful. 10. Manufactured Hopelessness The system convinces people that resistance is pointless, ensuring compliance without force.We are totally boned, we should all go piss on the tomb of Edward Bernays and Ivy Lee in mourning because our democracy is NEVER COMING BACK
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
You’d have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isn’t OS-specific.
I’m not aware that the Nvidia drivers for Linux require an app registration. If that were the case, I’d definitely have heard about the uproar.
In Linux you can use the open source nvidia drivers if you want
You don’t want to, though. They’re horrible. There’s an insane amount of effort that would be required to reverse-engineer drivers since Nvidia is at best negligent. AMD and Intel are much better about OSS.
NVK is very slowly getting there, from what I’ve read. if I remember correctly, it’s still gives horrible performance (about 50%-ish of the closed source ones, I think?), but it’s still miles better than “you’re really better off using your integrated GPU” that noveau offered for ages.
Fair enough. I wish them well in the effort. It would be nice if Nvidia threw them a bone, though, what with all the AI money and their GPUs being used in so many Linux supercomputers and servers.
There’s a project working on making CUDA work on all (read: AMD) graphics cards. It’s alpha-level, but the progress makes it look promising.
e: Tom’s Hardware links are half the size of the article 😂
been plug and play for me using Nvidia + Linux for years now. Just upgraded to a 5070ti, literally was take out old, put in the new.
I’m not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. It’s luck of the draw.
There’s a learning curve, sure.
There was one for Windows too, but most people don’t remember the hundreds of hours of learning that they’ve done to become competent users of Windows.
Just jump in, don’t dual boot. Having no option of giving up and booting Windows makes you motivated to learn how to use Linux.
There’s a community of people who will help (while also sometimes being insufferable assholes) and the skills you learn will be more durable. You’re not going to see Linux 11 come along and mandate that you buy a new computer or anything.
Oh I’ve loved it so far. And you’re right on the “what you learn is more useful”. Like I’d done a fair amount of hobby/work prototype stuff on rasbian, and eventually went “man, it’d be great if this but more horsepower” and wound up Debian.
Anyway, my point is despite doing a fair amount of coding, and circuit level electronics including troubleshooting comms and all the fun things like race conditions that go into that, I had zero idea how a computer was actually arranged. Troubleshooting Debian helped me with that and is infinitely transferable as opposed to being a tip and trick with windows.
But my original comment was just about Nvidia cards. I’ve had some I just slot in and they work, and some I have to spend an afternoon troubleshooting. Still reinforces your point though, troubleshooting it the first time was how I learned how things actually get displayed.
I know. The best you can do in Linux is not use nvidia.
That is no longer the case. The Nvidia drivers for Linux are pretty decent, these days. They’re still closed source, so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’ll need to buy an AMD GPU.
The problem is not that they are bad, is that if someone makes a project that depends on the specific drivers then it will work much worse if the drivers are closed source. Wayland was unusable with nvidia drivers until recently.
I’m not sure if the closed-source drivers have social media garbage on them at the moment, but I’m very sure that I don’t trust Nvidia not to add it.
This is quite frankly nonsense
You dont even need an nvidia card to open the nvidia settings on linux
The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.
aka: the only kind of freedom that matters. lol
No you would not because you don’t need to go to the website to download software to use Nvidia on Linux. Also the Nvidia driver on Linux is literally just a driver and settings package it has no online features
The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package I’m 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesn’t involve a gui app at all.
There is the Nvidia X Server Settings app but it’s pretty barebones
Not really it is full featured under X under Wayland some of the features are replaced by your desktops features exclusively
You don’t need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidia’s website.
If they can’t figure this out, they really don’t belong on Linux.
Also most zoomers are adults now, so no
I remember in 2019 my workplace was doing large guest lectures from experts teaching how to work with millennials entering the workplace. The teacher early on tried to emphasize that most millennials at that point were late 20s up to almost 40 so everyone’s been working with them for a good amount of time now and the crowd was not interested in that.
Just venting about their teenage children who were gen z but wasn’t a term used much for a couple more years. Just as entertaining were old millennials in denial and certain they were gen x. Not as entertaining were old gen z that thought they were millennials but learned they were actually gen z and it was a moment of shrug shoulder and pretty much being like, “neat.” Like thinking your astrological sign or zodiac animal was one thing your whole life but was off by one.
Similar to like 2021/2022 when I started hearing about how terrible gen z workers out of college were because of growing up on tiktok. Gen z in the workforce at that time grew up on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. Twitter was genz and millennials tertiary social media. When TikTok came out they had been working for years already or just about to finish undergrad college. 2021/2022 gen z who had the brain rot got that well before TikTok became popular
“Adults”
They’re out of college and approaching 30
Yeah but I’m older so naturally I look at them as adolescents still
alright grandad
Sure thing, infant being
First they did it to millennials, now they’re doing it again to Zoomers
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.
They’re hidden in the same sense that the real “download” button is hidden on most torrent sites.
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:
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.
Microsoft could pull this off nicely. One nice foggy morning in the UK, and all Windows boxes go BSOD … Hmm, I think, they do that anyway, most of the time, don’t they.
This is why I am AMD fanboy
This is why I wish I was AMD fanboy :((
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.
Creed: “I don’t get it. Why does a driver manager need a social media feature?” Ryan: “A one stop shop consumer experience. You’re chatting with your friends, you’re talking about the latest music, about the election; all of it is happening in our virtual driver manager” Philus: “Did the police sort the issue?” Ryan: “Yes”
I don’t use that shitty application. Just use Nvidia Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel. That application is data collection spyware.
I don’t use that shitty application. Just use Linux.
I’ll switch to Linux when there isn’t a performance trade off for using an Nvidia GPU.
Just switch to CachyOS and so far I’ve noticed improved performance if anything (on a 3080 10gb). The latency difference between it and Windows is just unreal.
That’s the case for DX11 or older games but any DX 12 game it’s 20 to 15 percent less performance and that’s a no go for me. Once it gets addressed, then I’ll consider switching.
Maybe it’s system to system, or something with the older nvidia drivers, but I’ve specifically noticed the improved performance in Expedition 33 and Jedi: Fallen Order which I think are both DX11/12?
Looks like they are working on it.
Running a 3060, no issues I can tell.
YMMV obviously: There was some driver fuckery I had to sort out because I’m stupid (curious and clueless is a dangerous mix), and I might not be running the most demanding games or programs (Jedi: Survivor might be one of the heavier ones? I have no idea)
I also might have lower standards: I’m playing 1080p 60fps and generally don’t notice FPS issues unless it drops below ~45, because I grew up using to an old-as-fuck laptop to play Skyrim at 20fps (unless there were too many spells flying around and it dropped to 5-10).
Still, the consensus seems to be that AMD is better for Linux, and I’m coming around too.
If there are Linux applications that aren’t complete janky shit, I’ll switch.
I need a multitrack DAW recorder that understands older and newer audio interfaces and a good multi-camera video editor.
I use bitwig and davinci and they work great. not sure what you mean by “applications that aren’t complete janky shit.” there are a ton of applications available on linux, both paid and free, and their quality varies as much as anywhere else.
“I tried nothing and I’m all out of options!”
