Adversarial Interoperability [External Link], for those interested.

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Too bad. I was looking forward to this one.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the near future, possibly the year 2030, you will not be allowed to own a modular computer as we know it now.

Quoting: walther von stolzingThe relative 'openness' of the x86 PC platform really was a historical accident, the result of IBM scrambling to make a late entry to the 'micro market'; and they did try to take some measures against it, but failed ultimately.

To be fair, we are already extremely lucky that the IBM open PC architecture (for the young'ns, that is the ATX and subsequent *TX form factor standard layouts) is still in use today. The IBM open PC architecture, devised in the 80s! Still in use in 2025! That is incredible staying power.

If you'd asked me whether *TX desktops would still be popular in the 2020s, even as recent as 2015, I would probably have pessimistically thought "no way!". My reasoning would have been the relative surging popularity of mobile phones as primary devices. But here we are. I can drive to a store and purchase *TX standards compliant parts of just about any variety.

With that in mind, I'd say let's not be so pessimistic. May the open PC architecture stick around for another 3-4 decades yet.

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Not too unlike Nvidia and their efforts with their kernel driver / Nova. Baby steps are being taken and it will take a long time yet for them to earn my trust.

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Followup to above: PC gamers are so concerned with kernel-level anticheat, but yet nobody seems to care that they are already wearing the ultimate digital handcuffs in the form of hardware rootkits from yours truly Intel and AMD. Think like ring -10.

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Quoting: 3zekielPoor x86, why so much hate ?

It is justified. The x86 duopoly have universally deployed what I would consider to be rogue silicon in the form of Intel ME and AMD Platform "Security" Processor, effectively extinguishing owner control and true device ownership under x86.

It used to be that you could have stuck with AMD, but then they followed suit and did their own "Intel ME".

It was once within reach to use me_cleaner script but Intel have continually pushed the feasibility of this out of sight.

Remaining on old, pre-ME/PSP CPUs was viable for high end gaming only a few years beyond the implementation of these anti-features.

Intel bought out VIA, eliminating any hope of real competition. VIA's last foray into performant x86 died with Isaiah II.

It is as though some force is railroading everyone into computers which ultimately answer to somebody other than the user.

A savior couldn't come soon enough. I'd lived on Open POWER for several years and am dabbling in the emerging RISC-V gear. The real shame is that projects like FEX and Hangover (who once supported truly free ISAs such as POWER) had dropped ppc64 support and currently no support for RISC-V.

The interim "solution" is to take a leap of faith that BIOS vendors of AMD boards are being honest in their PSP disable switches actually doing what they claim to do. Just a "trust us, bro. Communication with the PSP has been severed". And ARM is no panacea as they have their own "Trust"Zone rogue silicon. It is truly a dismal situation.

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These can probably be adapted into privoxy filters to sidestep the need for in-browser/in-client extensions.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guywhile Desktop Linux accounts for all the Linux rise lately.

This is substantial. The stat translates into that share of users going out of their way to select and install an OS rather than to let somebody else do so for them.

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Not to be confused with Whisker Squadron.

This looks great. Nintendo is too busy litigating and patent trolling, otherwise they would have already pumped out this exact title under a different name and with a more familiar set of characters.

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Between this and Valve's interest in ARM translation, we can see that Valve are looking far ahead at preserving their business into a possible era where desktops[+laptops] have fallen by the wayside.

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