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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Adversaries who are being treated to lower tarriffs than allies.

Cooked country.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is absolutely insane and no one will want to buy those GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 hours ago

There is nothing more American than hipocracy my friend

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh Senator Know-Nothing....

What are you going to do about firewalls and air-gapped networks? JFK you stupid asshole... GTFO

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia requires a monthly subscription to pay for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Bruh... Literally 1984

[–] [email protected] 128 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Between this, the tarrifs and the brain drain, why would any manufacturers consider operating in the US anymore?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

i wish you were wrong so fuckin bad :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So it’s about communism? No the other guys wanted that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Communism is exactly the opposite of that. You're thinking of late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Which other guys? The couple thousand people who voted third party because they didn't view Harris as an acceptable compromise between fascism and humanity?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Senator Tom Cotton

Ah. Yeah, that tracks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Famously he declared that slavery was justified because it was necessary to create the US:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53550882

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

...okay, so invest in Chinese GPU companies? Invest in Chinese GPU companies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I looked into those recently, actually expected the GPUs to be a lot farther behind than they are. The things that are really pushing them back are the drivers and the outdated process node, but there are already GPUs comparable to the lower end current generation cards from the 3 big manufacturers on paper (and even those have 16GB of VRAM, Nvidia 😤).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

They’re a loooooong way off being able to match any nvida card from the last like 7 years, at least.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

I can't imagine this would be effective at all. Assuming it uses GPS, big datacenters could simply spoof the GPS signal, and consumers could block the GPU from receiving the signal (a fully metal PC case is almost a Faraday cage already).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago

Why would they make their own products illegal in Europe?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago

That's some weird shit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

People will just make custom firmware and drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Or desolder the gps module

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

It would be wonderful if this pushes develpment of noveau drivers. But i don't get my hopes up...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Thanks but no thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I use Linux

Believe it or not, straight to CECOT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Just did the same. My pc was 7 years old. This may be my final ever upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

This will surely complete the final step of the master plan - the world craves those superior American made goods.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Once China takes the semiconductor crown, the US isn't getting it back.

Glad I get to be alive to witness communism beat capitalism. While the US ruling class wastes its money on dumb shit like "space tourism," the Chinese ruling class has been investing vehemently into its own populace.