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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:51PM (#29102483)
And yet I would bet they already do phone home and send shittons of information.

But to use that to self destroy if stoken or the like would likely generate way too much negative PR to nvidia and bring unwanted attention, so they wont.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by TheDong on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:10AM (#29104003)
I know for a fact my drivers do not phone home. The only GPU driver I've used for years is the one that comes in the linux kernel. It's open source, I haven't read all the code, but I know I could and I know the developers wouldn't be phoning home.

I'd bet a large number of linux users are in this situation since nouveau (nvidia), intel, and amdgpu drivers all exist in the linux kernel and work well.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by AshamedCaptain on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:42AM (#29106411)
I'd also bet that whoever buys this type of nuclear-powered graphics card does not plan to use a driver that will not allow 3D gaming or bitcoin mining.
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