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[-] irotsoma 1 points 3 minutes ago

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.

[-] zeropointone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

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?

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 hours ago

Zoomers need to learn they don't need to use Nvidia's app for this. Just download the driver directly.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Are you actually able to do that now? You used to not be able to or they were sufficiently hidden.

[-] 1371113@lemmy.world 3 points 48 minutes ago

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.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

at this point just stop serving websites to the uk, and call it their "great firewall"

[-] SCmSTR 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] SCmSTR 7 points 1 hour ago

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?

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

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.

[-] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I hear that - I was around when Arche and Fido-net and BBS'es were king. You want my id? Great I'll just fax it to you.

[-] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 hours ago

Why is it called "Lost Generation"?

[-] SCmSTR 6 points 3 hours ago

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]

[-] SCmSTR 7 points 3 hours ago

Tldr: looks like life shit completely down their throats. Kinda feels familiar....

[-] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

Life and the wealthy have been shitting on people for ever.

It's OK, they were saved in the end ... by a war that killed 100 million people.

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

Going into WWI was a bad time to be coming of age.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 46 points 7 hours ago

You can on Linux just saying

[-] expr@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago

Why does a graphics card app know how fucking old you are?

[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 1 points 7 minutes ago

Well now that the real question, isn't it?

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world 45 points 8 hours ago

this is eventually going to restore the internet to the 1990s on alternate protocols like Gopher or breathe new life into IRC and Newsgroups.

[-] itslilith 50 points 8 hours ago

sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now

[-] Kaerkob@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago

Nearly positive that the youngest are still minors, but most of them are adults for sure.

[-] obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

I have a gen x cousin that still rants about millennials, quickly becoming the new Facebook uncle

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago

The youngest millenials are almost 30, dude's gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials haven't been the in thing for like 10 years now.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

From Alpha to Beta in No Time Flat: Consequences of the Online Safety Act

[-] bigboismith@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago

Also most zoomers are adults now, so no

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 9 points 7 hours ago

First they did it to millennials, now they're doing it again to Zoomers

[-] network_switch@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[-] jouhija@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago
[-] _vote@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

They're out of college and approaching 30

[-] jouhija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but I'm older so naturally I look at them as adolescents still

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 61 points 11 hours ago

The internet's inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.

[-] Dallarion@lemmy.ml 147 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)
[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 83 points 14 hours ago

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

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