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Then don't buy stuff like that. None of this stuff will change unless people vote with their wallets. Companies have the idea that nobody cares. I've actually

by api 6y ago

Then don't buy stuff like that. None of this stuff will change unless people vote with their wallets. Companies have the idea that nobody cares. I've actually heard "nobody cares about privacy and security" repeated as a mantra in multiple circles.

Dylan16807 6y ago
There are two meaningful options for CPU. If they both adopt the tech...
- api 6y ago
  ... they create a niche for a third ... provided there are enough people who care. If nobody cares nobody cares.
  - Dylan16807 6y ago
    I don't have infinite resources to care with. Even if everyone is willing to spend an extra $100, a duopoly can ignore them and lose no money. That's not enough money to bootstrap a competitor desktop/laptop CPU.
  - square_usual 6y ago
    You make it seem like anybody can make a competitive CPU and take it to market. You need billions of dollars of R&D to make a good CPU, and if everyone who can afford that R&D signs on to taking your freedom away, there is no alternative.
    - mrmonkeyman 6y ago
      Yet billionairs don't invest in this, they make rockets and fancy cars. Fancy phones.. You don't care, just admit it. They know it.
  - mrmonkeyman 6y ago
    You downvote this, HN, but this is spot on. You keep gobbling up this shit, you all drool over the toys Intel and MS push into your faces. Shoveling this manure up your own asses for decades. Now you are complaining and claiming you have no choice. Yeah, _now_ you don't anymore, but there is still wiggle room to influence the future. If we all go belly up and give up dystopia will come sooner than you are comfortable with.
gentleman11 6y ago
As time goes on, we don’t have a lot of choices in a lot of these sorts of cases. There are dozens of hardware and software things I would love to replace if there were a viable alternative Speaking of, I heard the librem phone just started shipping
azalemeth 6y ago
I personally don't. I haven't bought a single Sony product since their rootkit fiasco 15 years ago [1]. I don't buy products with DRM on them: I buy classical music DRM free from an excellent record label called Hyperion (many of my friends in the choral music circuit have been recorded by them); I don't buy DVDs; I legally format-shift media freely streamed on OTA TV broadcasts, and I don't buy DRM encumbered things online. My indie games come from itch.io and my "indie" games come from gog.com. The trouble is, (a) doing this is a bit of a giant PITA, and (b) companies never know that you're not there. Sony doesn't know, and doesn't care, that I don't buy their products because of their aggressive pro-DRM stance. I am one consumer, many sigma away from mu, and slowly but surely I look like an antiquated relic: streaming has been so successful, and Widevine so ubiquitous, that it's almost impossible to join the "normal world" without being subjected to (unwanted) DRM. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

by api 6y ago

Dylan16807 6y ago

There are two meaningful options for CPU. If they both adopt the tech...

api 6y ago
... they create a niche for a third ... provided there are enough people who care. If nobody cares nobody cares.
- Dylan16807 6y ago
  I don't have infinite resources to care with. Even if everyone is willing to spend an extra $100, a duopoly can ignore them and lose no money. That's not enough money to bootstrap a competitor desktop/laptop CPU.
- square_usual 6y ago
  You make it seem like anybody can make a competitive CPU and take it to market. You need billions of dollars of R&D to make a good CPU, and if everyone who can afford that R&D signs on to taking your freedom away, there is no alternative.
  - mrmonkeyman 6y ago
    Yet billionairs don't invest in this, they make rockets and fancy cars. Fancy phones.. You don't care, just admit it. They know it.
- mrmonkeyman 6y ago
  You downvote this, HN, but this is spot on. You keep gobbling up this shit, you all drool over the toys Intel and MS push into your faces. Shoveling this manure up your own asses for decades. Now you are complaining and claiming you have no choice. Yeah, _now_ you don't anymore, but there is still wiggle room to influence the future. If we all go belly up and give up dystopia will come sooner than you are comfortable with.

gentleman11 6y ago

As time goes on, we don’t have a lot of choices in a lot of these sorts of cases. There are dozens of hardware and software things I would love to replace if there were a viable alternative Speaking of, I heard the librem phone just started shipping

azalemeth 6y ago

I personally don't. I haven't bought a single Sony product since their rootkit fiasco 15 years ago [1]. I don't buy products with DRM on them: I buy classical music DRM free from an excellent record label called Hyperion (many of my friends in the choral music circuit have been recorded by them); I don't buy DVDs; I legally format-shift media freely streamed on OTA TV broadcasts, and I don't buy DRM encumbered things online. My indie games come from itch.io and my "indie" games come from gog.com. The trouble is, (a) doing this is a bit of a giant PITA, and (b) companies never know that you're not there. Sony doesn't know, and doesn't care, that I don't buy their products because of their aggressive pro-DRM stance. I am one consumer, many sigma away from mu, and slowly but surely I look like an antiquated relic: streaming has been so successful, and Widevine so ubiquitous, that it's almost impossible to join the "normal world" without being subjected to (unwanted) DRM. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...