Gaming PC's BANNED By Woke States!
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This is the future of electricity in the US once renewable exceeds roughly 25% more of the grid at the expense of coal and nuke shutdowns.
Blackouts/brownouts will be common throughout the US during high demand times. Then the "optional" utility control of your thermostat and other IoT devices will become essential, because middle class won't be able to afford electric rates otherwise.
This is insane! Honestly the great reset is real. Slowly chip away at every privacy, every right, and even ownership of a fucking video game system.
This is legit crazy bullshit. How are they going to enforce this without putting software in computers to measure electricity usage? What other data will the software collect?
On a slight tangent, We really should have built a lot more nuclear power plants in the western world.
Until they start going after individual components for going over whatever BS power targets they set, you should be able to still build a PC and not have to worry about this garbage. There are a bunch of power saving features in PCs that mainly exist to meet some power target regulations somewhere in the world that can be freely turned off without repercussions.
Given that high refresh rate monitors will be targeted in December though, expect them to start banning the sale of high end GPUs and other power hungry components eventually in any state that incorporates these regulations.
Notice that they have exemptions for actual power hogs like server farms?
This is all about control.
I don't disagree with you at all. My point is that, at least at the moment, this is something that only affects OEMs (and presumably SI companies like CyberpowerPC). It's a big deal still because there is a large number of people unwilling to build themselves a PC for various reasons, and yes they will likely try to go after individual components later down the line to try and force everybody to use cloud services.
It's possible PCs start shipping with bios settings that disable boosting by default or have shit like eco mode enabled to skirt around these regulations, much like monitors do by default with energy saving features. Ultimately shit like this just hinders people that aren't tech savvy, and until they start banning individual components it barely affects knowledgeable people.
Huh, thanks for the reply. I'm not a tech person so I have zero idea what systems they would use.
This will likely affect monitor quality by forcing designs to comply with these shitty demands.
It will also give companies MORE excuses to refuse to build high end CRT's for niche markets as it would likely be harder to make a compliant design, even though CRT's have lower display lag, better scaling, and occasionally better image quality.
tl;dw?
California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Vermont have all adopted laws that say PCs can only consume X amount of power to be sold in those states.
High powered gaming PCs go over those limits.
what the limit? Who wants to watch some long video?
Ah,so this is to ban dedicated PC gaming/emulation/modding, and force everyone into the cloud for permanent live-service use.
Nailed it.
They don't want you owning a computer. They want you to have no option but to use theirs. They want to own your data. They want TOTAL surveillance and control over you.
Reminds me of when they toyed with taxing text messages a few years back when it was obvious everyone would just shift to “free” messaging services
That is how they work, figure out the result they want then come up with some bullshit that will produce exactly that.
So they're going to try to tell you how much you can game or?
If they're an independent, then they will just smuggle it in via regular mail, otherwise the large company who is sending the computer will get sued by the state.
or they have to learn how to DIY a PC
Power supplies and other parts are believed to be next.
Yeah I am getting pretty tired of people having a 10 minute video without getting to the point until they fill up 5 minutes of time.
Tne number one use for AI: vet every article, video, story, and forum post and auto hide any that just consisted of someone who is ostensibly on my "side" complaining that some neomarxist said something
My friend believes everyone should have the right to have air conditioning, but believes that we gonna die from global climate change... but when you apply some critical thinking. What you think when more people get air conditioning (get computers, cars, etc etc)?? There will be a lot more electricity used and a lot more air pollution, co2/methane emissions lol.
Seems critical thinking is lacking when you thinking about saving the world.
I saw rumblings of this last year. Don't recall which leftist rag it was in, but they whining about the power consumption of PC's vs mobile gaming.
Quite shocking that this has crept into policy with barely a mention.
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I see about 30 household items that use more power than a gaming PC :
https://generatorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/wattage-consumption-of-household-appliances.pdf
How essential is a clothes dryer/a washing machine?
I guess the femocracy went after gaming because men use it to escape the hellscape women have created?
I wonder if some of it is an attempt to curb bitcoin mining?
you can’t mine bitcoin with a gaming pc with any chance of profit.
they may be targeting other coins though
looks like someone accurately blamed the regressive left for this bullshit as a comment was deleted in r/pcmasterrace: https://archive.is/cpn1o
Let's just say that digging into it a bit more, this is still bad (duh), but less bad than it seems.
Mostly because the entire methodology only looks at idle power consumption.