Good luck affording to be able to build or even upgraded a PC in this economy.

YSK: This feature was disabled with a pushed firmware update.

Its true it was "not supported", but the CPU was/is capable of it.

The big issue here is did AMD disable it accidentally, or did they do it intentionally. If it was intentional why did they not announce it anywhere in the update notes, or anywhere else?

This is what you call a succesful business man /s

The Commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially.

Reading this I see the following:

The commission cannot propose a legal obligation to keep an appliance, machine, car, tractor working after a company chooses go stop providing/selling it commercially.

Look like as soon as those heated seat subscription servers go down you won't be able to reactive your cars seats. Or any product that requires proprietary/closed servers to function.

Well that's a weird way to phrase it.

When a car or appliance is no longer in production commercial by a company generally a person can still find third party suppliers or manufacturers that provide replacement parts, or someone might step in and manufacture a specific part if demand is heigh enough.

Why cannot the same apply here? Game developers/publishers should be archiving the game servers and making sure anyone can spin up their own servers, or choose to allow the game to run without the servers.

I dont think anyone here is asking that the company that developed the game needs to continuously support the product after its end of life, but allow others to be able to freely support it themselves.

The way I see it now, corporations are going to keep producing games, applications, appliances, cars, machinery that requires servers to operate and a active subscription. Once those servers are shut off your cars heated seats for example will stop to function.

I know this was just about games, but these politicians are so short sighted they basically are allowing all the above.

Reading the article AMD pushed a update and that update removed a feature that was once supported. There was also no mention that the update would remove said feature.

I dont know, but to me its like buying a car with heated seats. Then getting a update pushed, and those seats being disabled with no way to activate them. Or like having your old iphone performance artificially slowed through updates.

The big question is was this accidental in disabling this feature, or was it calculated. And if it was calculated why was there no announcement. The whole thing smells IMO.

Long story short, the hardware supports it, but the software disabled it.

16gb ram? What is this the 2000's.

I'm loving the spreadsheet!!

These are great for wildlife as they provide a safe crossing over high-speed highways. They are usually design to be in already existing migration paths where moving a proposed highway may not work and not disrupting migration paths is of importance.

Lots of disappearing of legal "things" in the US of A

The question is do they have a Copilot?

I have been trying to get fiber for a while now. The internet company tells me it's impossible. /s

This just in, Canada post and other mail providers will now be opening all envelopes and packages sent. All contents will be scanned or photographed and held on file for 2 years time, and released to relevant authorities upon request of investigation. To make things easier please do not seal packages or envelopes for easier and more convenient access.

All photos and scanned documents will be held in a highly secured database with easy backdoors access!

Pretty much the equivalent in terms of what Canada wants to implement with access to signal chats, VPN logs, and asking ISPs to keep logs for 1-2 years minimum.

Somehow our politicians don't seem to see the similarities between sending a message online vs sending a physical envelope in the mail. Also, in both cases a person could encrypt their messages/letters if they choose leaving regular folks with less security.

This video here explains one of the issues one minute in. Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/...

The way car companies are working around this legislation is why it's so hard to find and buy smaller sized cars (like smart cars) even if there is demand. It also makes our community less safe for pedestrian traffic.

Mr. Poopybutthole has my vote!

Every driving school in the whole world should do this when getting a drivers license.

A bunch of schools get shot up, nothing happens.

A Tesla spontaneously catches fire, domestic terrorism!

Could not be more correct. Public spaces and transit, cities need to be for the people that live there. Not for suburban commuters