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Introducing Nvidia VRworks. Only sabotages AMD performance by 60%.

Depends on how much you care. If you really care, start by switching off Windows/OSX onto linux distributions, like Debian, use a VPN, get an Android phone with a robust modder community and install an open-source compiled firmware without the google apps suite (including the store), and manually install only fully open source and community trusted software. Research how to build a secure and reliable personal email and storage server, nothing "cloud based".

Of course, doing this will also make you a more interesting target, so if you really care, then maintain a simpleton or even false digital life without evidence of your activities that you feel would make you a target in the first place.

I can't believe this question is at the very bottom. This was an enormous and recent scandal with multiple front page posts about it no more than a month ago, yet apparently everyone's completely forgotten already.

Edit: Holy smokes, this went from 1 point to multiple hundreds in about 20 minutes.

Google keeps using software-based encryption, instead of hardware-based, so storage IO speeds are a fraction of what they should be. If you're so inclined, you can look up how to disable forced encryption. This is true of the Nexus 6, 9, 5X, and 6P.

edit: Yes, I know these are already fast devices. Was just adding onto the statement that "they don't perform as much as they theoretically could." That's all. Additionally, hardware encryption is less battery intensive. This feature would not add significant cost, and would only help. None of this means the devices are bad, just not quite what they could be.

You think women engineers get paid more for being women?