Between this, the tarrifs and the brain drain, why would any manufacturers consider operating in the US anymore?
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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs
(www.tomshardware.com)
They'll still want access to Americans coz there are profits to be had, and they can price gouge under a fascist kleptocracy many orders of magnitude harder than elsewhere.
What they don't understand is that the fascist leadership will backstab many/most of them eventually, especially if they possess any moral fiber whatsoever. Luckily for them, capitalism has already purged corporate leadership of morality and ethics.
But if we don't have as much money due to increased prices on life essentials and assistance cuts, how are we supposed to buy all these things? Bad logic on their part, if this is their approach.
There is no bottom. They'll continue crushing the working class all the way to slavery and feudalism.
Stop expecting logic. MAGA and fascism is a severely psychotic mental illness that is empirically a dead end. A death cult.
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i wish you were wrong so fuckin bad :(
There's no real push for that to happen. This is about crashing an economy, stealing wealth and creating a a massive almost slave labor class at the bottom.
Ah yes let's try to stifle Chinese innovation by ... checks notes ... expanding our surveillance state. Usually we are the ones calling China a surveillance state, but it's fine(it's not) once we do it.
There is nothing more American than hipocracy my friend
Yeah. All the FUD about Huawei really solidified in my mind how stupid the average internet user is these days.
It's like, everything they were bitching about has already been confirmed to be happening with US companies thanks to PRISM and the Snowden leaks.
You joke, but western governments regularly pull the "our surveillance is good because we aren't an authoritarian regime" trope.
Senator Tom Cotton
Ah. Yeah, that tracks.
Care to tell more?
Famously he declared that slavery was justified because it was necessary to create the US:
IMHO there are a few, very few, things that Usa should forbid their own people to say.
Glorifying slavery might be one of them. But sadly they are not ready for that, yet.
Also lied about being a ranger. Stolen valor anyone?
Oh Senator Know-Nothing....
What are you going to do about firewalls and air-gapped networks? JFK you stupid asshole... GTFO
Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia requires a monthly subscription to pay for that.
For just $19.99 a month you can have us track your GPU*, or choose the premium ad-free upgrade for just $149.99 a months, so you can enjoy your favorite games without ad breakes.
^^^* ^^^failure ^^^to ^^^comply ^^^will ^^^be ^^^punished ^^^by ^^^deportation
Don't give them any ideas.
This is absolutely insane and no one will want to buy those GPUs.
Unless, of course, they're in all the GPUs that people want.
...It's unfortunately more likely that the majority of people won't notice or care, though.
Yeah if you think most people are going to care or even know about this, you haven't been paying attention to the last 20 years.
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Just like nobody is buying the current generation because it's insane, right?
Why would they make their own products illegal in Europe?
...okay, so invest in Chinese GPU companies? Invest in Chinese GPU companies.
That's some weird shit
Fascists are weird little guys. There is a podcast about that, it's true.
How is this even legal? I am not even american nor living there, so how would the US be allowed to operate massive and unregulated surveillance through GPUs ?
The US is becoming worse than those they call villain.
If you're in Europe I'm pretty sure those chips would violate the hell out of the GDPR and as such can't be sold there.
Even then, as posted in a different too level comment, this is just too easy to fake, or block.
It's an idiot law for idiots
The US has very low engagement of its voters, so even things that are illegal are starting to happen regularly.
It's the same as so many countries, once a few rich guys get into power, as long as the guys with guns will take their money, it doesn't really matter what want, the government gets captured and corrupted.
There's ways to fight it but it's a slog. I might give up. It's not my job to fix it, fixing things doesn't pay.
Adversaries who are being treated to lower tarriffs than allies.
Cooked country.
Yeah that is fun and all but I can at least guarantee you that that shit won't fly in Europe, and likely neither in Canada. I can only imagine other countries will be penning their own laws outlawing this.
So tech giants then have the option to either go for separate chipsets for those countries or stip selling there.
Also, how do you want to implement this? Have the GPU request GPS data from the computer? That won't be hard to forgr., but let's say you ge that, then what?
You need to send that info somewhere or it'll be useless. How? Over the Internet? Ahw, my firewall told you to go fuck yourself. Over its own GPS line? A little bit of aluminum foil can do miracles.
So what are you going to do then? Require an active internet connection for your GPU to work? Bwhahahahha. Have you seen gamers responses to games that require active internet connections to play? You won't sell shit.
This is again a law designed by absolutely.emoty headed idiots tompleae some other empty headed idiots.
People will just make custom firmware and drivers.
It would be wonderful if this pushes develpment of noveau drivers. But i don't get my hopes up...
Or desolder the gps module
INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.
How would that even work? But aside from that, I should probably upgrade my GPU before this goes into effect, even if the GPU I want will probably not be affected.
I'd back up as many versions of the drivers as well (different oses, different releases). I feel like this will be implemented drm style with forced network connections baked in the drivers
Yeah, that's the only way I can see this work. I use Linux with the Mesa drivers, that are part of the kernel, anyway, so there's not really a need for me to make driver backups.
I use Linux
Believe it or not, straight to CECOT.
and not just through the american archive.org.
but I wpuld say if you can't hold all the driver files yourself, keeping a list of sha256 hashes or better of them could be worth it too, to later verify their authenticity if you find it somewhere. its also easier to search by hash sometimes
Just did the same. My pc was 7 years old. This may be my final ever upgrade.
Bruh... Literally 1984
Thanks but no thanks!
Capitalism is a system of whores. And there's nothing wrong with whores, but a whore is a whore. Good luck. It's going to be like trying to hold a bar of soap that's slipping out of your hands. You can keep grabbing at it, but it's just going to keep slipping. I just recall when America leaked nuclear secrets because soldiers were using a private private flashcard program and they forgot to check mark the box that said private. And so they ended up leaking all these secrets all over the internet. And let's not forget. The open source information that was used from some snot-nosed person on an osint account on twitter for targeting a supposed underground base, that cost the lives of innocent civilians via the Palantir and Peter Thiel's stupid AI. They did not get an underground base. They just wasted millions of dollars on something that wasn't there.
It's like their plans are dystopic and terrifying, but they're not going to be able to implement them in a way that's worth a damn. And also, their actual product that they produce is so stupid that it's even more terrifying than the original idea. It's just straight up fucking madness. It's like, look mom, no hands. Then you fall off the goddamn bike and you're sitting there crying.
This still remains. There is so much corruption and greed in this country that we can't even function as an empire. We can't even get a chip's factory figured out. We don't make shit. Everybody in this country is so goddamn lazy and stupid. I can't even find a noble cause because I feel like I'm just enabling stupid people. I'm sure we just operate off of bare necessities. Like the need to just stay alive one more day. But it gets to the point where it's like, what's the fucking point? This country is nonsensical. It's absurd. It's laughable. It's weak. It's limp dicked. And this happened way before Joe Biden or Trump. This has been a continuation ever since I've been alive for 40 fucking dumb ass years.
This will surely complete the final step of the master plan - the world craves those superior American made goods.
why dont they just ask huwei to give them some spying tech.
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