The latest version of Intel Arc GPU Graphics Software introduced an interesting change that isn't reflected in the Release Notes. The installer of the 101.4578 beta drivers add a "Compute Improvement Program" (CIP) component as part of the "typical" setup option that is enabled by default. Under the...
The Windows driver. If you’re using Windows, you’ve already declared that you’re okay with this kind of thing. This whole thread is people pissed about dress code violations at an orgy.
I still haven’t signed up my local windows account Into my Microsoft account, despite the nagging. I’ve opted out of everything I can and I have a encrypted, filtered dns to block tracking and ads system wide.
Just because some people use windows doesn’t mean they are ok with being tracked everywhere.
Unfortunately gaming is still just mostly easier on windows though Linux is making gains.
Yeah, I mean, I’m not telling anyone what they should do. If gaming is more important to you than privacy, game away, and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it. Personally, it’s an easy call for me, mostly because so many games are playable now. There’s a few than I can’t run on Linux, and that’s fine, I just don’t play those. If no games ever worked… maybe that’s a harder call.
You’re right that this propably doesn’t make much of a difference to the average windows user, but this is a step towards normalizing data collection in broader areas of computing and I think that it’s good to keep up to date with stuff like this and where appropriate call it out (although it propably doesn’t make a huge difference to complain about it on lemmy to be honest)