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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs
(www.tomshardware.com)
People will just make custom firmware and drivers.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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It would be wonderful if this pushes develpment of noveau drivers. But i don't get my hopes up...
INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.
Or desolder the gps module
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.
Thanks but no thanks!
This will surely complete the final step of the master plan - the world craves those superior American made goods.
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.
And of course the miraculous Chinese GPUs won't have any tracking inside, none at all!
just like their smartphones and networking devices, right?