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I use glasswire firewall and I just checked nvidia's activity and it doesn't even amount to a megabyte (uploaded) in the last week. I'm thinking this is tinfoil hat stuff.
I’m a little surprised no one has MitM the telemetry service and reverse engineered what it’s sending.
Like dude, I picked the route when I started this thing, go fuck yourself. Clicking buttons on touchscreens while hurling a thousand pounds of steel around at 80 miles an hour is what kills people.
And another thing since I'm ranting, if I have do-not-disturb turned on, don't fucking pause my Spotify and play a phone call ringtone through my speakers. If the person calling me is having an emergency they should have called 911, it can wait.
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(Apple guy here) Apple Maps also has cycling directions now, including an option to avoid busy roads. Maybe that will work?
apple maps doesnt have cycling maps for _amsterdam_. none of the eu countries do where i have been
There's a table of feature availability for the top 60 metro areas here:
https://www.justinobeirne.com/apple-maps-feature-availabilit...
To be sure I wasn't remembering things wrongly, I just opened it up and confirmed that the points below still stand today.
- There are insane amounts of businesses shown/advertised on Maps, even though Google doesn't have a presence in mainland China. I can confirm that lots of them are correct, as I pass by them frequently. There are many that are outdated, as in Maps showing a given business at location X, but the place has become something else. This is most likely due to Google being unable to update the information in a timely fashion so I don't really blame them, but still adds to the app being considerably less useful.
- It cannot show public transport information, even though it says it can. This makes the app completely useless for me, and I'd believe for most others here, as I think foreigners are more likely to try using it than Chinese people, and it is a lot less common for foreigners to drive here.
- Even with a VPN on, it still cannot find most information about anything. Even some driving/walking directions seem wrong.
Conversely, Apple Maps actually does as well here for me as Google Maps did before I moved to this country. The funnier part of that is how it feels like Apple only cares about the US in regards to Maps data and features, but it does a pretty good job here. No fancy stuff like 3D mapping, look inside, etc, but I can count on one hand the number of times Apple Maps messed up in the several years I've been here.
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> 2. Man, this has trouble finding addresses. If you are or someone else is interested one can: - add addresses to OpenStreetMap if missing (highly welcome!) - report search problems to https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues - or even submit fixes if they want - wait till someone else will do any of above (to be clear, that is also OK to do this - noone is obligated to volunteer for above) - I guess you ca…
For sure. I've added hundreds of addresses myself. But still there's work to do.
I used to live by Google Maps for several years, until I moved to China. I knew it'd be worse than other options, but I really didn't expect the gap to be so gargantuan. And I also felt like the move exposed a lot more of some of the problems brought up in the article and comments. To be sure I wasn't remembering things wrongly, I just opened it up and confirmed that the points below still stand today. - There are in…
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GeForce experience tracks every single window you have open, sending the title and window information, along with every single spot that you click on your screen to Nvidia, tied to your now mandatory account. That was a couple years back. Who knows how much more invasive it’s gotten since. Oh. And this data is considered to be “valuable debugging information”, so is not prevented by opting out of analytics.
We've reached the point where, even when you are paying for it, you are the product.
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There is absolutely no benefit to me the user to force me to create an account. What a deeply frustrating user experience (especially when I have to dig around for my password just to update a graphics driver?!) I hope someone wakes up at Nvidia and removes the account requirement. Why do they even do it?
Nvidia is on top of the world right now and companies on the rise often make really stupid long-term customer alienating decisions. Nvidia won't miss any on of as an individual customer at all. For these types of situations, usually at some point the things that were pushing the company upwards slow or stop while the damage from their arrogance accumulates enough to start causing real harm. After some foot dragging a…
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The irony here is that you will get NVIDIA (and AMD) drivers vendored through Windows Update automatically by default. These work fine for 3D acceleration, and don't install GFE or require an account. You'll just be a few versions behind, not sure what their release cadence is for this. But as far as I know this is a net positive to the Windows PC user and potentially eliminates needing to deal with GFE/Adrenalin as…
Except the telemetry service was moved into the drivers in 2016, and isn’t a part of GFE any more. :-/