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Orcblood

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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.
  11. Wtf. I'll pretend you didn't say that cause I know you like to win an argument.
  12. Well I'm still happy with my decision. You should stop using Facebook too if you are. Stopping any vector they have to your data is a good thing especially a vector they blatantly control completely. Otherwise it's similar to "I have nothing to hide so why should I care if they see my data."
  13. I perma deleted facebook 2 weeks ago after a few trial runs of having my account de-activated. Think it needs another 2 weeks of me not logging on until it's permanently gone. I downloaded the data prior so I atleast have it to look back on. Used it for 10+ years. All I gotta say it feels go not to be supporting that company anymore with my time & data. No regrets. If only more normies would do the same. I like what they are doing at Gab, the implemented things so well & the transparent give what money you want model works well No adverts so no reason to sell your data. I understand Gab may be to Christian / Conservative which is why I was hoping Parler would take off cause they at least tried to be a platform for all and took no side. Atlass though that got killed by these big tech-companies. Scummy. Really wanted something besides twitter & reddit to get out of my echo-chamber cause it's healthy too. Right now it's only reddit cause I deleted twitter cause they are supper scummy like facebook. Maybe even worse. Btw: Odysee is a great alternative to youtube! Support alt-tech
  14. I don't want Apple to win the PC space. Come on other companies! Bring the heat! But don't actually
  15. That triggers me. Is it I don't want to signup for a new app excuse? Or, and this may be a bit sexist is it the females in the group refusing to leave WhatsApp? Always seems harder with them.
  16. Eh Yahoo can burn. Their news site suckz donkey balls. Their comment section over a year has been disabled because and I quote, "Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting." Their a bunch of wokies that hate free-speech or don't know what it is and like their safe space. I don't trust any news-site that disabled their comment section as not to receive any criticism.
  17. I'll i will say here is Boooooo. bad move. Edit: Also reminder that Odysee.com is awesome and a great alternative.
  18. I'm sorry but I don't see how my reply was wrong or "raises all sorts of red flags". It wasn't great sure but at worst it was just an okay reply. I have a full time job & a life so I don't really have the desire to try and cozy up to the moderators. I thought my desire to know why I got banned was shortly & calmly asked by me to the mod. A normal person could clearly see that my flagged comment itself shouldn't have been considered controversial enough to deserve a ban. Not even remotely. Not by itself anyway. I used a self censored swear word but i've seen many people use un-censored swear words in that sub leading up to it. So yeah obviously i jumped to the only assumption I could think of at the time. Also at the time my reddit history was rather easy to look through so he could have easily checked it out to see if there was other things said by me that could have warranted the ban. But sure I guess I'll throw-out the knee jerk reaction to assume the worst next time and probably add a please when asking why I got banned. This was my first time getting banned from a sub mind you so I acknowledge inexperience probably played a part. If he was a good mod, read what was flagged, he would have wondered why I got banned for such a thing and got to digging into it for me & getting back with an answer. But nope. Here's also the context that the "context" hyper linked in the image I shared earlier goes to if you care to look. As you can see I only said that one thing that got quoted for the ban. Not sure why op got his comment removed but i don't remember it being anything bad. Anyway this whole thing screams bad moderation. https://imgur.com/a/Ma2kywh Thanks for at least acknowledging moderation bias. I feel like you have some bias here and I can't blame you, as moderating is an exhausting & for the most part a thankless job. Also understand I'm probably to much of a free speech advocate/lover to meet current mod standards as I was taught growing up to highly value free speech & that everyone should have a voice even Nazi's who we view to be the absolute scum of the earth.
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