High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States
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High-End Gaming PCs Banned in Six US States
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#2Yeah. PCs which consume high power when in idle state.
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#3To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions.
> They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%. In spite of this, consoles are seemingly exempt from the bill.
My guess is the exemption is to tend to corporate interests? Absurd.
This bill does nothing to target Bitcoin mining (these people custom-build machines anyway).
Thoughtless bill through-and-through.
Perhaps this will make more kids build their own PCs, and thus fall in love with computing. Pointless hurdles like this kickstart a hacker's journey. A silver lining at last.
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#4I fail to see how a progressive residential energy tax wouldn’t have been the better option but I’m super jacked to see progress being made, even if it is a tad misguided.
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#5It feels wrong to ban the sale of a product on the basis that "it might be used on the electrical grid".
There is nothing stopping me from buying a PC and running it on my own off grid solution.
If the power companies don't like my power consumption, they should simply implement solutions on their end, like charging me more money proportional to my usage.
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#6To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions. > They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%.…
Completely agree.
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#7I fail to see how a progressive residential energy tax wouldn’t have been the better option but I’m super jacked to see progress being made, even if it is a tad misguided.
"I am super jacked to see progress being made in controlling the moral failings of certain humans, even if it has to be through banning the sale of alcohol nationwide."
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#8Yeah. PCs which consume high power when in idle state.
Which includes a lot of PCs with beefy GPUs. Nvidia in particular has a lot of issues with idle power usage for their cards.
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#9In this specific instance the consumer is being done a favor by being prevented from buying terrible prebuilts, but the law is absurd.
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#10More detailed information: