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Wacom tablets track every app you open

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Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #206
babypuncher wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source drivers are rare on Windows because manufacturers almost always ship proprietary drivers that are good enough, and Windows users clearly have no issues running closed-source software. Proprietary drivers on Linux are often crap, if they even exist at all.

>Proprietary drivers on Linux are often crap, if they even exist at all. Not so with Nvidia GPUs. The open drivers are awful; the proprietary drivers are good. (But IS the case with AMD GPUs, to the point where the proprietary driver seems to perform worse[0] and everyone pretends it doesn't even exist, which is upside down unintuitive coming from A.) Windows and B.) Nvidia.) 0: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page…

The proprietary drivers are not "good". They don't support Wayland which has been the default on many distros for years. They also don't support prerelease or custom kernels. I had to build a custom kernel to include some patches for new hardware I just got and found out it was impossible for me to use the nvidia drivers on it. I ended up getting an AMD card because of that.

Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open

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Post by mkl »

pvaldes wrote: post #72

I received one as a gift but, to be honest, I never used it after seeing the obscure mandatory propietary format to save the files. If I can't open my files later in GNU and there is not a method at sight to save it as jpeg, png, etc... is useless. Just a cheap model probably. Collecting dust somewhere. My other wacom, and older model, was awesome as a mouse replacement; but it toke months to work in Linux and I don'…

Wacom tablets work fine in Linux, Gimp, Krita, etc. in my experience (and haven't required significant setup for over a decade). Why are you trying to use obscure proprietary software instead?

Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open

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Post by catalogia »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #239
babypuncher wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source drivers are rare on Windows because manufacturers almost always ship proprietary drivers that are good enough, and Windows users clearly have no issues running closed-source software. Proprietary drivers on Linux are often crap, if they even exist at all.

Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. The kernel offers no stable binary interface so drivers become broken every single time linux updates unless the drivers get compiled as part of the kernel. This forces manufacturers to either decide that they will open source the drivers, not have any at all or put in the work to keep them up to date every release. It seems like forcing the all or nothing choice made a…

> Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap.

As the situation on windows shows us, the alternative is drivers that are crap for other reasons. If Linux offered a stable binary interface for drivers, we'd have proprietary drivers that "worked" but were nevertheless still crap insofar as they were essentially malware, as is the case with this wacom driver.

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Post by rapind »

sizzle wrote: post #224
bitL wrote: post #223

It looks like everything in tech got poisoned, smart TVs taking screenshots, web apps tracking and matching user clicks, smartphones tracking locations realtime and who knows what else, desktop apps monitoring other apps and peripherals, creepy companies building profiles on everyone, health institutions selling data of their users... I want out, I didn't get into this field, keeping myself up-to-date and super capab…

"just to make somebody with a limited lifespan feel powerful and rich." Wow that last sentence really puts things into perspective. How can be reverse course and throw a wrench in the system? We are the makers, we should be able to wrestle back control and do it democratically and get politicians on our side to legislate this ad industry into the ground.

Sorry to break it to you but most of this "we" already sold out. Much like the corporate hippy boomers.

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Post by Barrin92 »

Seenso wrote: post #225
bitL wrote: post #223

It looks like everything in tech got poisoned, smart TVs taking screenshots, web apps tracking and matching user clicks, smartphones tracking locations realtime and who knows what else, desktop apps monitoring other apps and peripherals, creepy companies building profiles on everyone, health institutions selling data of their users... I want out, I didn't get into this field, keeping myself up-to-date and super capab…

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you're getting downvoted just for pointing out why the problem exists.

The discussions around these issues always follow the same pattern that reminds me of a dialogue I recently saw posted somewhere, where an Amish person and a non-Amish person talked about technology and the amish person asked the other one, "do you think having the television on is good for you and your family?" and the other person responded "no, but we don't want to get rid of it because it may be useful", and the amish guy responded with "that's the difference between us, if something is bad for our family we throw it out."

The discussions around tech are the exact same. We all agree the modern internet is screwed, large companies put ads into everything, we're getting screwed over, non-profit domain spaces are being sold, everyone's unhappy, and we do .... nothing. Because of 'innovation' or some other conjured up fantasy term.

Re: Wacom tablets track every app you open

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Post by prawn »

Seenso wrote: post #225
bitL wrote: post #223

It looks like everything in tech got poisoned, smart TVs taking screenshots, web apps tracking and matching user clicks, smartphones tracking locations realtime and who knows what else, desktop apps monitoring other apps and peripherals, creepy companies building profiles on everyone, health institutions selling data of their users... I want out, I didn't get into this field, keeping myself up-to-date and super capab…

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How much of this is feature creep when teams feel obliged to keep adding more and more to justify their jobs? Let's say you work for Samsung in their TV software division. Other than incremental upgrades in screen technology coming through for you to accommodate, what else can you keep pushing through the pipeline to impress your managers? Maybe smart TV features are the low hanging fruit for these employees? I mean, I dislike that functionality, but maybe the pushback from the public isn't strong enough?

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Post by burntwater »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #54

BURP SUITE! Burp suite is amazing and more people should use it. That is all.

On their website, they list their plans Enterprise through Community, left to right. That's the opposite of what's standard and immediately makes me wary.

They might be great, I don't know. But if something as non-standard as that is done, what other weirdness behavior does their software have?

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