Already did!

It’s a shame I have a year subscription to them. I’ll be cancelling and moving the second it runs outs.

I agree, it is sad, but your McDonalds comparison is not at all the same situation. I do when possible try to use privacy respecting software. There’s a reason I’m on Lemmy. However, I’m using Lemmy from an Android phone. In many situations in everyday life, there is no simple way of avoiding having your data collected. My ISP and credit card companies collect and sell my usage information. I fortunately still have an older car, but when it inevitably dies, I’m gonna have to upgrade to one with an internet connection that also collects information. When my data is already being collected and sold by so many companies, I’m not going to stress myself out by worrying about adding one more, especially when the information they’d gain (my phone number and social media interests) is already plenty available from Google.

In your comparison, you act as if I’ve chosen to have this and have now given up. In reality, we’re in a world where it’s often the only option.

The correct answer is proper legislation to prevent and reduce this, because the sad truth is that the large majority of consumers never gave a shit.

Seriously, why should I give a shit about that at this point? Any information I put into this app they could easily get from Google.

a company that now owns the most talked about app online is not astro turfing on Lemmy.

That’s true, but its still not nvidia making that, so it’s a bit of a different thing. It will never support certain things like CUDA. It is really cool though and wouldve never happened without the open kernel modules.

Yep, Nvidia has never been hostile towards Linux, they benefit from supporting it. They just don’t care to support the desktop that much, and frankly neither do AMD or Intel. They often take an extremely long time to fix simple bugs that only effect desktop usage. Fortunately, in their case, the drivers can be fixed by other open source contributors.

They only open sourced the kernel drivers, which just makes sense for them to do. Userspace drivers, which these attackers wanted to be open, are still very much closed. Likely had nothing to do with it.

You might be spending too much time on Lemmy if you’re still finding it lacking in content. Unless you’re referring to the amount of content in niche communities, in which case I’d agree.