This is getting laughably ridiculous
This is getting laughably ridiculous
This is getting laughably ridiculous
This is why I am AMD fanboy
gen z is pushing 30 btw
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
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 are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.
Shh
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.
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.
They're hidden in the same sense that the real "download" button is hidden on most torrent sites.
at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call it their "great firewall"
Relevant:
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.
Why is it called "Lost Generation"?
Personally, I don't know.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation :
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century. The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.[1][2][3] Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: "You are all a lost generation."[4][5] "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early interwar period.[6]
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, Western members of the Lost Generation grew up in societies that were more literate, consumerist, and media-saturated than ever before, but which also tended to maintain strictly conservative social values. Young men of the cohort were mobilized on a mass scale for World War I, a conflict that was often seen as the defining moment of their age group's lifespan. Young women also contributed to and were affected by the war, and in its aftermath gained greater freedoms politically and in other areas of life. The Lost Generation was also heavily vulnerable to the Spanish flu pandemic and became the driving force behind many cultural changes, particularly in major cities during what became known as the Roaring Twenties.
Later in their midlife, they experienced the economic effects of the Great Depression and often saw their own sons leave for the battlefields of World War II. In the developed world, they tended to reach retirement and average life expectancy during the decades after the conflict, but some significantly outlived the norm. The Lost Generation became completely ancestral when the last surviving person who was known to have been born in the Lost Generation or during the 19th century, Nabi Tajima, died in 2018 at age 117.[7]
Going into WWI was a bad time to be coming of age.
You can on Linux just saying
this is eventually going to restore the internet to the 1990s on alternate protocols like Gopher or breathe new life into IRC and Newsgroups.
sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now
Nearly positive that the youngest are still minors, but most of them are adults for sure.
These delineations are quite silly especially when used in a derogatory way. But if one plays that game, there are still "zoomers" who are minors.
From Alpha to Beta in No Time Flat: Consequences of the Online Safety Act
Why does a graphics card app know how fucking old you are?
Yeah, most people in this thread are focusing on gen Z, but why can't a minor play video games? What if a kid wants to play a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon or the Sims, must they really be 18 years old? And why does a hardware component then verify that? It's like age verification on a plate before dinner, fucking weird.
Well now that the real question, isn't it?
Well, if you use an ATI 3D Rage card in your PC it can be deduced, or buying a Graphic card with you credit card.
The internet's inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.
Also most zoomers are adults now, so no
First they did it to millennials, now they're doing it again to Zoomers
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
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
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.
You'd have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isn't OS-specific.
EDIT: I meant in general. Software on Linux is also subject to the UKs temper tantrum laws, same as on Windows. The Nvidia driver is just an example, you can also just download the driver on Windows without needing their companion app.
You dont even need an nvidia card to open the nvidia settings on linux
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 key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.
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.
In Linux you can use the open source nvidia drivers if you want
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.
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
Nuh uh uh!
You again???! 😡😤👊🖕🖕🖕
Is this a joke?
The UK? Yes
UKKK.
This timeline? Yes
Yes. It’s not clear if this was photoshopped or a bug that has been around for years, I believe related to GeForce NOW streaming. The two clients share some code, and GeForce NOW does have an age requirement.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/572753/nvidia-app-accessibility/
You mean the censorship law was woefully ill-conceived and won't do anything they claim it is supposed to do? Leay it's definitely a joke, just not the type you're asking about.
Do you see anyone laughing? Well? Do you?? 🧐
🥺
I'm laughing constantly because I'm losing my mind! Haha!
Tried to use gpt5 via the api the other day and they wanted me to scan my passport. 🫠
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?
Makes sense, because with the nvidia graphics card you could generate AI porn.
a pen can generate porn
Question: how good do you have to be at drawing to have a successful wank to your own art?
You can do that with a CPU, it’s just slower.
Intel! You know what to do!
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.
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.
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.
No wonder the Scots wanted to secede from this mess.
And it would've worked too, if it weren't for those meddling kids BBC and MSM propaganda machines!
Hear me out
Cascotia
Never thought living in a second world country would have it's benefits
Second-world means axis-power (Germany, Hungary, Australia, Italy, Finland, Japan, etc). It doesn't mean something like "half-way between first-world and third-world" like Latin America or the USA.
Second world doesn't mean axis powers, it represented the Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries.
Its a cold war term. The terms represent the two remaining superpowers after WW2.
1st world = The US and US aligned countries
2nd world = Soviet Union and Soviet aligned countries
3rd world = Non-aligned countries. Which just happened to be mostly under developed countries, which is why the term is now used for that. It didn't actually mean under developed at first. For example, Switzerland is technically a 3rd world country despite being rich and highly developed.
Australia is an axis power! Salutschüsse.
Australia being a famous axis power
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.
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"
What has the setting of nVidia or visiting the Wikipedia to do with child protection? Certainly old guys which confuse a remote control with an smartphone , don't should be authorized to make internet laws.
The actual Nvidia driver settings window or all the gamer crap build on top of it that demands you make an account?
Don’t get me wrong, this law is awful but also just deinstall that piece of bloat, good old Nvidia control panel is all you need and works entirely offline without account or did something chance since i left windows?
They're gradually moving all the functionalities of Nvidia Control Panel to the Nvidia App. All the new features can only be accessed from the Nvidia App.
And you don't need an account to use the Nvidia App.
😂
Sorry. I thought this was about the Nivea app.
is this real? what the f does a gpu driver have to do with the safety act?
Nvcleanstall
The final solution to the zoomer question has finally begun
NVCleanInstall lets you install NVidia drivers without using their GeForce Experience software