Follow-Up From My LinHES/Mythbuntu Talk

[Bernie Hoefer]

On 2016-11-08 19:28 EST, Bernie Hoefer wrote:
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> My experience would now lead me to go find an Intel video display
> adapter (since they use Open Source drivers) that supports VDPAU (Video
> Decode and Presentation API for Unix).
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     As I mentioned in my talk, the proprietary Nvidia drivers gave me
some small headaches, which is why I suggest going with Intel.  Looks
like there is now another reason to avoid Nvidia products, if one cares
about one's own privacy and control over the items one has purchased:

  Nvidia Adds Telemetry Tracking to Latest Driver
  <https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/11/08/0229228>

(The referenced ghacks.net article is about the Nvidia Windows driver,
but do you really trust them not to try to put it in the Linux driver,
as well?)

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