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Why would them diminishing a certain aspect that you admittedly never planned on using in the first place affect your decision? Does your work involve computing
by oh_sigh 5y ago
Why would them diminishing a certain aspect that you admittedly never planned on using in the first place affect your decision? Does your work involve computing millions of hashes, but isn't cryptocurrency?
- pdimitar 5y agoNo, my work doesn't involve that at all. It just sends the signal to me as a customer that they can limit what I do with something that I bought and is supposedly now mine. It's a slippery slope kind of situation where you don't know what else they might figure they'll want to limit in the future. I am not okay with that so I'll vote with my wallet.
- SXX 5y agoNvidia never applied those mining limitations rectoactivelyl they only announced for newer cards. Still they crippled VFIO capabilities with driver updates in past so they had bad track of record years ago.
- pdimitar 5y agoYep, that's what worries me. They are cautious for now but if they don't meet pushback (or a financial hit) they might get bolder and start applying more and more restrictions. This is likely too paranoid for many but the technical possibility is there and believing in the good heart of a huge business is to me not a sound strategy.