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In other news: GeForce experience continues to require an account and has creepy privacy issues

by gentleman11 3y ago

ramon156 3y ago
sorry bud, we cant make your games super duper fast if you dont give us your email!
- gattilorenz 3y ago
  email? They’re sweeping up an incredible amount of data, basically every window you open.
  - garblegarble 3y ago
    Do you have more info on that? Their support site[1] claims their data collection is much more constrained than that (although still seems like a lot). 1: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3188/~/what-data-does-geforce-experience-send-to-nvidia%3F https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3188/~/w...
    - gattilorenz 3y ago
      Ah, you’re right! I’m basically repeating stuff I got from a somewhat recent HN thread [1] which I found shocking when I first read it, except it’s not true and I did not bother checking it because it was not unthinkable and… confirmation bias, I guess. Now, if only I could go back and still edit the original post… Thanks for catching my bullshit, I stand corrected (and should have been wiser). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033859
      - woleium 3y ago
        This is the HN I love :)
      - garblegarble 3y ago
        No worries, confirmation bias comes for us all at some point!
murermader 3y ago
It is less convenient (by design), but you can always manually look for new drivers and download them. Thats how I do it. Maybe someone wrote a script that automatically scrapes the website and downloads the newest driver automatically?
- 1696343940 3y ago
  TechPowerUp's nvcleanstall is a pretty lean NVidia driver installer. It fetches from TPUs servers, and installs only user-selected driver components. The screenshots linked do a good job of communicating what it does. Has a scheduled update-check if you want that too. https://www.techpowerup.com/nvcleanstall/ https://www.techpowerup.com/nvcleanstall/

In other news: GeForce experience continues to require an account and has creepy privacy issues

ramon156 3y ago

sorry bud, we cant make your games super duper fast if you dont give us your email!

gattilorenz 3y ago
email? They’re sweeping up an incredible amount of data, basically every window you open.
- garblegarble 3y ago
  Do you have more info on that? Their support site[1] claims their data collection is much more constrained than that (although still seems like a lot). 1: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3188/~/what-data-does-geforce-experience-send-to-nvidia%3F https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3188/~/w...
  - gattilorenz 3y ago
    Ah, you’re right! I’m basically repeating stuff I got from a somewhat recent HN thread [1] which I found shocking when I first read it, except it’s not true and I did not bother checking it because it was not unthinkable and… confirmation bias, I guess. Now, if only I could go back and still edit the original post… Thanks for catching my bullshit, I stand corrected (and should have been wiser). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37033859
    - woleium 3y ago
      This is the HN I love :)
    - garblegarble 3y ago
      No worries, confirmation bias comes for us all at some point!

murermader 3y ago

It is less convenient (by design), but you can always manually look for new drivers and download them. Thats how I do it. Maybe someone wrote a script that automatically scrapes the website and downloads the newest driver automatically?

1696343940 3y ago
TechPowerUp's nvcleanstall is a pretty lean NVidia driver installer. It fetches from TPUs servers, and installs only user-selected driver components. The screenshots linked do a good job of communicating what it does. Has a scheduled update-check if you want that too. https://www.techpowerup.com/nvcleanstall/ https://www.techpowerup.com/nvcleanstall/