> Nvidia GeForce Experience

My god what a bad experience... to update my graphics driver I am first forced to log-in which would be bad enough but then also solve two captchas and then for some reason these frequent driver updates are multiple gigabytes in size. I have no idea what the hell they are doing.

Ehh, this isn't really true. You only have to log in once (not every time) and the drivers usually clock in at around 600mb, not multiple GBs.

I boot up my windows machine maybe once a month; I'm not sure what the login timeout is, but it seems to be at most that. I always have to log in. My password is something like "fuckyounvidiayoupieceofshit".

That's brilliant, my username has been "fuckyouidontwanttologin" since they started requiring a login a few years ago. I had to create a separate account to post bugs in the forums though because the username was blocked.

And what's the deal with the captcha during login? I sort of get why some websites require it to login, but for software installed on Windows? Do they seriously have that many bots running on Windows trying to install drivers? Is that even a thing?

What a coincidence. The email I used to sign up for GeForce Experience is nvidiaisshit@mydomain!

Yep, same. I dual boot and only rarely use Windows.

Last time I downloaded factorio it was ~300MB. I think you'll find entire Linux distributions including mesa + Intel and AMD GPU drivers fit in 600mb of data.

I say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!

The drivers are an insignificant fraction of the 600 MB. Most of the 600 MB is an entirely new copy of GFE being downloaded every single time, and most of that is the damned advertisements.

Thus just makes me hate anything to do with Nvidia.

I've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S

In the end I caved and bought an Apple TV 4k. I'm just sick and tired of how laggy android tv is, it's lagging on TVs that ship with it, it's laggy on little android boxes, it crashes often, if it's not crashing the apps are.

Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.

You don't need GeForce Experience. All the tech is in the base driver, Experience only adds social features. Uninstall it, it's just a vessel for advertising.

My DAW (digital audio workstation) seemed to have fewer audio stream dropouts once I got rid of GeForce experience.

If you just need the driver and don't care about the fluff, you don't need GeForce Experience AFAIK. Same for Adrenaline.

I actually liked their in-game overlay and ShadowPlay for making quick screen captures. Also their auto-optimization for games (set some better default game quality settings) was useful a couple of time. Also, the one click to update the drivers is better than googling for new drivers, downloading, installing.

You don't need Experience for the overlay. I only have the driver and I was playing around with it yesterday.

Forgot to ask, maybe anyone knows a fix for the GeForce Experience error code EROR CODE: 0x0003. It just crashes on launch, even after clean reinstall and driver updates.

I'm partially joking here (but not entirely) - Nvidia support will likely give you the standard Microsoft forums answer after exhausting all other copy/pasted "solutions": reinstall Windows.

Also while we are dumping on Nvidia here, why does the 2080 Ti with 5 outputs only support 4 active at one time, while the 1070 Ti could use all 5 ports at once? I paid considerably more for a faster card, yet I'm more limited. Support basically told me "it's too much bandwidth". I guess I can't complain too much, at least tech support has some actual humans replying to emails (albeit the first 3 emails are copy/pasted).

Considering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.

You don't! I switched to using links on the linux framebuffer and it rocks. Yea, there are a few sites that I have to pop over to X and Firefox, but for the vast majority of web sites that I visit, including this one, it works like a charm.

And it's lighting fast. Trully stunning. 10-20ms to render on a circa 2008 thinkpad.

And it's pretty good straight C, and very hackable, and only around 70,000 LOC. First thing I did was join it with guile and write a bit of glue code and I'm now adding features to it faster than you could git clone firefox, let alone begin to read its code.

A large fraction of HN stories are articles on nytimes.com. How readable is a typical page on nytimes.com in links?

It's great. Loads in less than a second. Text and images. Never have to worry about popups.

I mean, modern websites do a lot more than display documents. They're certainly bloated, but they increasingly need to "do everything." Normal people do so much of their computer usage in the browser that it could probably _be_ the operating system and most people wouldn't lose any functionality (see: ChromeOS).

I agree, but Windows for example is also complex. I wouldn't find it acceptable if it froze for 1 second everytime I switched between programs. Complexity is not really an excuse for bugs. If it's so complicated it creates so many issues, maybe it shouldn't be this complicated?

I mean, that problem is hardly common and Windows is definitely full of similar bugs. And I'm not sure it's possible to make web browsers much simpler without losing functionality - the websites they have to support necessitate the complexity.