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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by Strom on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:04PM (#29101658)
Nvidia drivers work just fine with no networking, I've used them so frequently.

The anti-mining technique that Nvidia uses depends on firmware modifications as well. Thus the firmware of these stolen GPUs must already support such a banlist.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by Gigachad on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:02PM (#29102153)
You could in theory keep it fully offline but at some point you are likely to accidentally allow it network access or want to update the driver and if that happens, the card is bricked. It also makes the cards completely worthless on the second hand market.
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