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Orcblood

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    Programmer Analyst

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  1. The 290 Sapphire Vapor X blue. I got it used and eventually sold it but still one of my favorite cards. Matter of fact I know I've brought this up before on this forum.
  2. @LAwLzDude, I want to fist-bump you. Well said. I was thinking the same. If we want to conspires for fun though, I think this likely has to do with Intel. Nvidia has never seen AMD as much of a threat to them, and do not really respect them as an equal competitor. Now with Intel coming into the d-GPU market with Open Source drivers and APIs like AMD, I think Nvidia has seen it's time to open up if they want to stay more relevant to users and developers alike in the graphics market.
  3. Let me guess, was it directed towards a race wearing a pigment like that of a fresh sheet of printing paper?
  4. Nvidia should just focus on Risc-V if they want to enter the CPU arena.
  5. Well this seems promising. Open Standards are good. DLSS, if this is close to it's performance & quality or better mind you, should be replaced by this.
  6. Bruh it's CAM. All my problems went away once that software was disabled.
  7. Their stance on censorship ruined it for me.
  8. Lol right? It seems to good to be true. Must wait to see this feature released. That is if it's not just a dummy toggle
  9. Summary In unexpected news - the long time advertising rooted tech giant, Google, and the owner of the worlds largest mobile OS and consequently one of the largest advertising platform, Android, has decided to allow users in the upcoming Android 12 update to opt-out of Advertising ID's in the OS's settings. Advertising ID's, or in Android's specific case GAIDs (Google Advertising IDs), help apps, like Facebook, to track users across differing apps & platforms in order to build a profile of the user. To note though these ID's are not required to build a profile of an internet user. Facebook is able to build profiles of many who don't even have an account on Facebook or any of their direct products. However, Advertising ID's do significantly help curate a lot more data about a user as well as helps with accuracy when matching data to a user and the ease of user-data tracking in general. This announcement comes well after the famous iOS 14.5 update from Apple which brought App Tracking Transparency and marked the first move of putting this very wanted power into the user's hands. Apples implementation is better in that it pops up to the user when an app wants to use Advertising ID's (IDFA as Apple calls it). For android though this will be located somewhere in Android's system settings meaning less noticeable and more likely to go unchanged by the user. When opted out, Android will still pass an Advertising ID but it will be filled with zeros thus making it essentially useless. Apple has received a lot of push back from companies such as Facebook so will be interesting to see how Google weathers this also. For instance apple had planned to release App Tracking Transparency with iOS 14.0 but delayed to 14.5 instead based on these companies response. Quotes Google's Announcement My thoughts I'm both shocked and stoked that Google is doing this. Wish it was more transparent and easier for the user to be able to see & opt out of but none the less this is a very welcomed step in the right direction. Welcomed I mean by us average users of Android. Not for companies that rely on the platform's big advertising opportunity. Maybe some day it will be an opt-in feature instead of an opt-out. Doubt it but one can dream! Glad to see Facebook loosing it's invasive power. I personally do not trust Facebook with my data. Nor do I think they are an ethical company. Glad to have finally pulled the trigger and deleted my account recently. Just wish I could do it again. Sources https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/google-limits-mobile-advertising-id-android-12 https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466531/google-android-ad-traking-advertising-identifier-id https://www.engadget.com/google-android-opt-out-app-tracking-143911504.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANSdEKHKVVrVtPVYDqE0rQePjdd0Le-IB241EsLRtTCfz0NOoU58ENXK72hinUHPlkzYgYJWRhb51z0r_PWYmX0XSdEMOuhisdc0a5hNaWF1iPq5EwRTxZrr3V3Is9GBOFUNWA77H2ZOHkj6STqJPAuyHc1u2O4gAt9L0irfDMWq Google's direct announcement: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6048248
  10. Good to see. Hopefully it runs better for us Radeon users as been reported by many on /r/AMD about CryEngine based games. Hopeful with seeing them mention current gen console support and modern hardware.
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