BrightCandle

They will like PC gamers swallow all the DRM and digital downloads as we see everytime there is complaints about Denovo or the latest game has been withdrawn on Steam gamers keep going back and buying more. It will end the same way on Playstation.

PC gamers accepted the inability to sell and loan games and to have extensive DRM on a large number of games. The console players are the last holds against this anti consumer practice. Just because PCs has multiple stores it doesn't change the fact Steam is a near monopoly and while its relatively consumer friendly we still don't own games on it, they can not be passed to others in any way legally. People have a weird love for Steam but the basic facts are the same, it uses DRM, you can't sell or loan games and you have a licence and don't own them, you can't pass them to someone else in a will. Steam is pretty anti consumer on the big items here compared to disks on the consoles.

Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games and the same approach with digital rights management of downloads will do the same to the consoles.

When you ask people if they want to hand over government ID to every website they access as an adult to prove they aren't a teenager however support is going to drop really rapidly. Most adults on the internet have had basic details stolen on the internet, but having your passport and other biometrics routinely stolen alongside your bank details is going to open people up to a lot of identity theft attacks. They aren't likely to support the actual implementation.

"But the leopards wont eat my face"

Hate to break it to you but in the countries where they are restricting it they are doing so to Youtube and Reddit and many other places. Anywhere the plebs can talk to each other.

What I miss in the transition from forums to Reddit and Lemmy is the longer forum discussions that could go on for years. They had their issues, they regularly went off topic and resulted in insults being traded and trolling but they also got to a depth that we don't see anymore. They were much better for getting to the detail of a thing and with Reddit/Lemmy being so focussed on today the entire discussion is gone tomorrow. The tree format is better for the branching discussion but its also got a real depth limit.

We lost something important when most of the forums shuttered. I really miss usenet for that as well, it alas didn't evolve with the increase in spam but it could have been something still in use if it had.

Need another one now for all the removal of side loading, that is another big antitrust issue. Best make the fine actually worth something this time.

Its a really great market for picking up talent if your company isn't currently suffering AI psychosis. You don't have to use talent scouts or anything else expensive, your competitors are just laying off their top engineers who previously you had no chance of getting and they aren't even doing it out of necessity.

It wont be impacting my privacy, it will be impacting my participation in the places where it applies. It will likely just push many to other platforms with even less interest in complying with this legislation, its where all the adults that care about their human right to privacy will be.

The analysis comparing GPU flagships and price/wattage is somewhat shallow because it hides another thing that has been going on, the reduction of fundamental specs of the various classes of card. It used to be the case that a x80 chip meant it had a 512 bit memory bus, that it was ~500mm^2 die and hence a fully maxed out GPU and you got all that for ~$400-500 or so. Then the 680 came out and its specs were more like an x70 card from the prior generations, its only 294mm^2 and a 256bit bus, it was a rename of the lower class card, they never produced a flagship for that particular generation and some of that degradation in specs carried over to the 780 ti as well which now only had a 384 bit bus but its die size was ~561mm^2.

An RTX580 is now 378mm^2, which is about an x70 in pre 2012 terms and 256bit bus which is also x60-x70 class.

That process has resulted in the titans and the x90 and the x80 ti all slipping above the x80 as its specs gradually decline and its price is still going up compared to the historical picture, enormously more than inflation. During the same period CPUs on the other hand have stayed fairly similar in price with a steady increase in performance at a price point. That 680 oddity in the historical area was the moment things changed and AMD had a big part to play in the reason why with their 7970 being priced so much higher. This process started then in 2012 and its been getting worse as time goes on.

Dangerous, it makes the USA an enemy to the entirety of the EU and all of NATO except the USA. Its not just stupid, its caused a permanent relationship change that has changed the EUs posture to defending itself from US aggression and to divest entirely. Nothing the USA does now will change that, this is happening and will continue to happen.

Its unlikely that we will, too many people want this and the elites have created a system that has disempowered people completely. You work around it, with VPNs and use other sites.