NVCleanInstall lets you install NVidia drivers without using their GeForce Experience software
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This is why you Linux, point blank.
Nvidia is still closed source, even on Linux...
Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then it's still a problem
This is why I am AMD fanboy
Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
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.
Zoomers need to learn they don't need to use Nvidia's app for this. Just download the driver directly.
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.
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.
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at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call it their "great firewall"
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