NVCleanInstall lets you install NVidia drivers without using their GeForce Experience software
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.
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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!
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You can on Linux just saying
It's like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
not trying to be rude, but it’s easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didn’t know their options. they didn’t “choose” to throw away their rights because they didn’t know they had a choice.
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lol
this is eventually going to restore the internet to the 1990s on alternate protocols like Gopher or breathe new life into IRC and Newsgroups.
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This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
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at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call it their "great firewall"
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?
Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
Reminder that they already responded
The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible
Doesn't stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.
doesnt matter. they only understand money or force.
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Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
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Relevant:
Oh great, a graph telling me I'm going to die soon. I'm not even that old.
I know we don't know each other very well, but... Can I have your stuff?
I've let my family know that SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone can have my VHS tape of the original West End production of Cats, my Windows 98 CD-R with the license key written on it in marker pen, my Tazos collection (all 4 of them) and my Haynes Workshop Manual for Ford Escort. Enjoy.
The little dance I just danced. This is all I've ever wanted. Happy day. Praise the god of the toilet.
damn, a haynes manual. you really are gonna die soon. me too.
As one of the first Baby Boomers, it's somewhat surrealistic for me to proof that I'm old enough to access an fucking web page.
As a millennial, it, too, is insane.
Which begs the question: who thinks this is a needed thing and a good idea? Who is pushing this agenda?
somebody in another post a few days ago suggested that this was about gaining control of the media narrative by gradually locking down parts of the internet. The idea being that today it's adult content but tomorrow its about disagreeable narratives on YouTube, TikTok, and other secondary sources of Information.
-I'd think it were a stretch of the imagination but it was shown that the motives for trying to ban TikTok (in the U.S.) were the narratives shared on the platform about Israel's ongoing genocide.
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The internet's inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.