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Re:Sonder E-Ink Keyboard by gambiting on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:03AM (#12835475)
You already can't use your Razor mouse(not to the fullest, anyway) without signing in with your Razor account. And recently, Nvidia started requiring that you create an Nvidia account to use their GeForce Experience application. Super annoying.
Re:Sonder E-Ink Keyboard by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:05AM (#12835988)
I thought I'd had to sign up for some kind of account to upgrade my graphics drivers a couple of weeks back but I'd convinced myself it was just a bad dream... Agreed it is indeed annoying - not to mention that the GeForce Experience "optimal" settings nearly always seem to be far from optimal on my hardware.
Re:Sonder E-Ink Keyboard by gambiting on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:24AM (#12836925)
Yeah, I downloaded it to get "optimal" settings to play Titanfall 2 on my GTX750Ti, and GeForce Experience just told me that my GPU doesn't match the minimum requirements and it can't help me. So I ran the game, it selected default settings for me(mixture of low and medium) and it runs perfectly fine, at 60fps. Really great help GF Experience there, really fine.
Re:Sonder E-Ink Keyboard by sn0v on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:46PM (#12841649)
Yeah, I went ahead and installed the driver manually (sans GeForce Experience). I can always update manually when needed (if/when a new game is wonky).

Screw having to create unnecessary accounts (or signing into services I don't absolutely need).