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[-] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 98 points 1 year ago

Can we just not live in a fucking dystopian world ?

[-] BorvorRav@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Has r/aboringdystopia made the move to federation?

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"WONT SOMEONE STOP THIS DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE OF BEING ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR A BETA THAT IS ACTUALLY A BETA AND REQUIRES ACTUAL DATA COLLECTION (THAT I CAN ACTUALLY OPT OUT OF IF I DONT WANT TO PARTICIPATE) TO ACTUAL DO ITS ACTUAL BETA JOB OF IMPROVING THE SOFTWARE?! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!11one!1"

[-] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, it will stay a Beta for ever and data collected will always be only for improvement. This is 100% sure, tech history has always been this way. There is no possible way to turn this otherwise.

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

"I'm just gonna ignore the fact that I can opt out with a single click, and continue to be a dick about it, because admitting I'm wrong is not something I am willing to ever consider"

[-] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You don’t get what I’m saying at all.

[-] DrinkBoba@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Thing is, there are alternatives but people settle for cheap and convenient. Lots of people hate Apple because of some odd contrarian marketing reason. Apple doesn’t do this. Linux is another option. Both are hugely better for regular people than Windows.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let’s be fair. Apple doesn’t do this quite so blatantly and egregiously, but they do it. They collect plenty of telemetry, and it’s getting harder to opt-out of/block it with their own chipsets.

Edit: I say this as an Apple user.

[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Mac even had special rules so firewalls (including Little Snitch) couldn’t block access to Apple’s own data collection servers.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That’s some real bullshit. As soon as I can get functional Linux on my M1 Mac mini, I plan to.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 56 points 1 year ago

Windows drivers only.

If you are on a spyware platform, what can you expect otherwise?

[-] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Lol saved me a click thanks

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Damn. I was thinking: what the actual fuck, I escaped Windows and now this?

[-] whatisallthis@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Can you imagine some marketing firm contacting intel to pay for the user data scraped by their customers GPUs?

Like how is that real.

[-] nothing@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Laughs in Mesa

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There might be some bias involved based on the third paragraph:

The good news is that users can opt out of this data collection by deselecting it during the installation process. However, the process isn’t too straightforward either unlike AMD, which explicitly asks the user whether they want to opt out of data collection. Nvidia, however, enables and installs its Telemetry components by default and users are unable to opt out of it.

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

How is it biased to point out whether you can disable telemetry and how simple it is to do so?

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

To me, the article title is biased clickbait because it implies Intel is worse than the other GPU options. But Nvidia has been doing the same shit for years.

But I'm not the person you replied to.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Claiming that Intel is not as shitty as Nvidia is pretty bold.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Uh by stating how it is during installation of beta drivers from the competition is bias?

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The fact that Nvidia has been doing this for ages without opt-out (afaik) makes Intel look more humane in comparison.

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