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      This happens all the time. I still see what I call boomers (likely younger than actual boomers) call gen z millennials constantly. The oldest millennials are like mid 40s but in the popular imagination we are still kids in our 20s. It’s like society is 10-15 years behind almost

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      Does the Linux build of GeForce experience not do this, because if it does then it’s still a problem

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        We don’t have geforce experience on Linux (afaik). Ubuntu has a built in “proprietary drivers” app that just pulls the Nvidia drivers for you on first boot after install. Very low effort (on the happy path at least. If you use unsupported/brand new cards, you’re probably going to have a much less fun time)

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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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        Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader, he grew up a Tory supporter, failed to get in as a Tory politician so decide on transforming Labour into the neo-Tory party which he was successful at, not that Labour before hand was the friend of the average worker or the poor but at least they were better, now they are hostile to the working class and the poor 😞

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          Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader

          Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.

          now they are hostile to the working class and the poor

          Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.

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        Labour are far left are they. I feel your political compass is somewhat misconfigured.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Unfortunately it actually just means less computer literacy. If you can’t use a computer you just stay on your phone.

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          any phone that aint grapheneOS, aint worth using imho

          however, i doubt grapheneos team will be able to bring a phone to market. looks like US and EU will outlaw them anyway here soon.

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    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?

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        They’re hidden in the same sense that the real “download” button is hidden on most torrent sites.

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        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.

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            That’s what in used to use but there are some features you can’t access without the physx components so I get the whole package now. For baseline it’s good for sure.

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          Maybe they were harder to find on their site like a decade ago when I first got an Nvidia card and I just never tried looking again.

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            It’s been the same for 20 years at least. My first nVidia card was a geforce2 but I had an integrated SOC one that borrowed main board memory before that called a RIVA TNT 2. Prior to that had an ISA SVGA card but can’t remember who made it:

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            Nope. Always been that way. Enter model, choose platform, download drivers. Ive had to do it for at least a decade and a half since the nvidia program has never not borked out trying to update drivers.

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              you are speaking about the advanced search page, but I don’t even know how would I find it without my bookmark

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                lol. Yeah navigating any driver website is a pita. I just search nVidia driver download and it drops me there.

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      Because you playing gooner bait for 10 hours per day, and they want that info to sell you more gooner bait.

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      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.

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

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      Oh great, a graph telling me I’m going to die soon. I’m not even that old.

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          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.

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        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]

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      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.

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        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?

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          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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        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.