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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by apocalypstyx »

momirlan wrote: post #353
apocalypstyx wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we should stop re-positing the specific developments of contemporary capitalism with some generic notion of civilization. A civilization is not some 'national body' that grows, matures, and dies exactly analogous to a biological organism.

definitely not "national". but a civilization rises and then falls. it's a universal cycle, entropy at play.

A word replaced with one more vague one does not a robust argument make. Such a notion of universality lacks the concept of frames of reference and relies on an impoverished understanding of the concept of entropy. The argument for a cyclical imperative to history is at best tautological and fundamentally anti-empirical.

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by momirlan »

apocalypstyx wrote: post #361
momirlan wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

definitely not "national". but a civilization rises and then falls. it's a universal cycle, entropy at play.

A word replaced with one more vague one does not a robust argument make. Such a notion of universality lacks the concept of frames of reference and relies on an impoverished understanding of the concept of entropy. The argument for a cyclical imperative to history is at best tautological and fundamentally anti-empirical.

scrabble soup, lol

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by bravetraveler »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #360
bravetraveler wrote: post #357

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In that spirit, if you have an EFI system, you don't need GRUB

You sort of do if you want to boot kernels on btrfs. Refind is an option, but not most of the other EFI bootloaders.

Ah, good point - I neglected the BTRFS involvement/need to find kernels... that one would ideally include with these snapshots, of course

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by Tmpod »

iraqmtpizza wrote: post #348
nwallin wrote: post #347

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> Package managers are useless for getting the latest maven, gradle, or ant version. My package manager has the latest versions of maven and gradle. Ant is behind; upstream is up to 1.10.13 but my package manager only has 1.10.9.

did you have to enter some magic string like ppa:chien that literally no one would ever know

I'd say they use a rolling release distro like Arch or similar, where packages are updated very often. In fact, I believe Arch even has a tool to seamlessly manage multiple Java installations.

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by Tmpod »

iraqmtpizza wrote: post #326
aruggirello wrote: post #312

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> When you drag a file or file path from the file explorer and drop into the command prompt, it's supposed to put the file path there > Also, I shouldn't have to hold down twelve modifier keys to move a file from one place to another > I should be able to drag a file to a segment of the file path in the file explorer and have it move to that directory level Guess what, that's exactly what happens in Dolphin (KDE Plas…

I've used KDE plasma as recently as 2019 and it most certainly does not do that. If you're saying that it just recently got added then that's extremely sad that it took this many decades. Surely a few decades more until it's the default, though EDIT: ha, I just looked it up. exactly as I remember, you need to use a modifier key to do any dropping. And it opens a dialog half the time instead of just doing it. I'm 99.9…

I'm not sure I understand what you're describing but I believe Plasma and Dolphin work like that. If you drag and drop a file into a program it will select that file (if it expects a dropped file) or paste the path. You can also drag and drop files inside Dolphin itself to move or copy stuff around. I think what's confusing you is that, by default, it doesn't assume a move and prompts you to pick between that and copy, and you can force the choice and prevent the prompt by holding a key while dragging. You can, however, change this behavior in the settings to instead mimick Windows explorer.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by joshspankit »

BizarroLand wrote: post #206
bee_rider wrote: post #157

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It is unfortunate that people recommended Ubuntu as a starting distro for so long. It does too much. It will update things for you, or give you a pop-up to tell you to update. Updates happen all at once, rather than a little at a time, so you get these big dramatic updates with combinatorial bug explosions. Maybe the repos will be gone if you don’t update in time. Maybe your favorite packages have moved from apt to s…

I've not had a good experience with Ubuntu or Pop OS. They've always felt sluggish on any hardware I've put them on. Debian may take a touch more wrenching to get running but it has been good for me, although I haven't tried 12 yet. Fedora was good but Red Hat shenanigans seems to have messed with it. I may try Mint next time. I've heard good things about it. I said all of that to say, isn't Linux great? If you have…

Since you want responsive, try XFCE (xubuntu)

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by joshspankit »

Aerroon wrote: post #309
musicale wrote: post #224

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Microsoft has really poisoned the well with default-always-on-telemetry. Technical solutions (firewalls, switching to Linux, etc.) aren't necessarily practical for many people. > the ideal solution is one where corporations do not or are not allowed to collect telemetry by default This is probably the only effective solution, but I don't see it happening without enforceable legislation.

I think TV manufacturers don't help either.

The fact that most of them include the content of the screen as telemetry is especially concerning

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

Tmpod wrote: post #365
iraqmtpizza wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used KDE plasma as recently as 2019 and it most certainly does not do that. If you're saying that it just recently got added then that's extremely sad that it took this many decades. Surely a few decades more until it's the default, though EDIT: ha, I just looked it up. exactly as I remember, you need to use a modifier key to do any dropping. And it opens a dialog half the time instead of just doing it. I'm 99.9…

I'm not sure I understand what you're describing but I believe Plasma and Dolphin work like that. If you drag and drop a file into a program it will select that file (if it expects a dropped file) or paste the path. You can also drag and drop files inside Dolphin itself to move or copy stuff around. I think what's confusing you is that, by default, it doesn't assume a move and prompts you to pick between that and cop…

It may be gnome (which is even worse). But if you're correct about the setting to change the behavior, then this is a non-default (setting) of a non-default (desktop environment) in Ubuntu. A really unfortunate situation.

I am skeptical about the claim that KDE's file explorer supports dropping files onto any part of a file path e.g. three levels up in one go, but if you say so.

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by joshspankit »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #96
inktype wrote: post #31

Windows and its ecosystem have already become a telemetry monster; if you're fine with everything else, you ought to be fine with this. The linked Intel support page shows the simple instructions for opting out of the telemetry. Having said that, 2022 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Everything works. KDE gets better every week. Be the owner of your technology. Join us!

The worst thing about linux is that it is made an maintained by people who like linux. I would love more than anything to see a paid fork of linux whose goal was to make a power user friendly user OS that never needs to pull up a CLI. People will come out of woodwork here to suggest whatever shitty half-assed CLI wrapper enviroment. No. No. No. They suck. I have been using them on and off for 20 years. Including righ…

You might like the ability to use natural language on the CLI, then have AI create and run the command for you.

One example of many: https://github.com/mattvr/ShellGPT

Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

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Post by cornercasechase »

OO000oo wrote: post #308
cornercasechase wrote: post #92

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You can use Krita! It’s legitimately very good.

not industry standard, useless

How is an amazing, advanced, free design program “useless”? If you can’t dictate the tools you use at work you should find a new job.
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