>Playing victim usually doesn't work.

Neither does gaslighting or dismissively waving off someone else's suffering, but golly gee do responses like yours seem to make up a disproportionate amount of programmer's attitudes toward end users nowadays.

Time was you didn't need to have a multi-billion dollar tech company behind you to write drivers or low level API's because you could actually get access to accurate datasheets, specs, etc.

Now good luck if you want to facecheck some weird little piece of hardware to learn without signing a million NDA's or being held hostage by signed firmware blobs.

That's a bit beside the main point though, as my gripes with Nvidia stem from their user hostile approach to their drivers rather than their that use the drivers.

So apologies, shouting at clouds.

End users aren't writing GPGPU code.

All authors of code are end users.

Not all end users are authors of code.

Stop seeing devs as seperate from end users. That's how you get perverse ecosystems and worse, get perverted code.

Furthermore, you shouldn't tout that end users aren't writing GPGPU code as either an excuse, or point of pride. If we were actually doing our jobs half as well as we should be (as programmers/computer scientists/teachers), they damn well would be.

Google is also pushing NNAPI for compute in their typical fashion :)

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/neuralnetworks