• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    being immediatly visited by the feds because your chinese made gpu doesn’t have a backdoor (for them) and the NSA Panopticon throws up an error

    God I hate that this sounds like the most crank shit imaginable and yet it’s still not

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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      10 hours ago

      probably instead soon you’re going to have GPUs that spend insane amounts of energy to make sure you’re not looking at movies/tvshows/porn/non-christian youtubers without paying the specific extra subscription and old/blackmarket GPUs end up really expensive.

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      11 hours ago

      Years ago, there was some weird glitch on the NSA’s software where it wouldn’t work without one particular American-made GPU part, but they just kept it in without bothering to look at it, because the two manufacturers are already American anyways? But then it becomes a problem when China puts their hat in the ring, and there’s so much spaghetti code they can’t possibly find the source of the problem. Lathing it.