California is banning the use of power-hungry computer hardware. This is interesting, does this mean mining for Bitcoin is illegal now? Since that uses a lot of power, you would think that it would be illegal. Considering the miners sometimes use a lot of cards in an array and run the rig for a long time. This would draw a lot of power. But why though? Is this putting too much strain on the power grid that is already overloaded in summer? This. And environmental terrorists too (also known as crypto miners). Plus video games are white supremacist breeding grounds so why should we tolerate that and their hardware just so they can play the latest game on max settings? There are more important issues right now. Such as achieving racial and gender equity. The role of GPUs in achieving equity is exactly zero, if not negative when you consider toxic gaming lobbies. Ban all GPU hardware, use the CPU instead. That is how real men do things. Using a simple Pentium II 350 instead of power-hungry bloated machines that melt the power grid. Use an Intel® Pentium® II Processor 350 MHz, 512K Cache, 100 MHz FSB instead, this is all you need to run Linux and browse the web.
Compare the pair. This is all a real computer user needs. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/49939/intel-pentium-ii-processor-350-mhz-512k-cache-100-mhz-fsb.html. No need to have 3000 Terabytes of cache and 6000 GHZ just to run Firefox. I mean really. I ran Linux on a Pentium II 3509 with 192 Megabytes of RAM and it ran fine using KDE 3. So why do you need an i9 with 5 GHZ speed then? If you are in California, just use a 286 instead. Even a TRS-80 can run cool programs. And that is from 1977.
“Workstation” means a computer used for graphics, computer-aided design (CAD), software development, financial, or scientific applications, among other computation-intensive tasks. A workstation covered by this specification must meet the following criteria:
- (1) Product as shipped does not support altering frequency or voltage beyond the computer processing unit and GPU manufacturers’ operating specifications;
- (2) Has system hardware that supports error-correcting code (ECC) that detects and corrects errors with dedicated circuitry on and across the CPU, interconnect, and system memory;
- (3) Meets two or more of the following criteria:
- (A) Supports one or more discrete GPU or discrete compute accelerators.
- (B) Supports four or more lanes of PCI-express, other than discrete GPU, connected to accessory expansion slots or ports where each lane has a bandwidth of 8 gigabits per second (Gb/s) or more.
- (C) Provides multi-processor support for two or more physically separate processor packages or sockets. This requirement cannot be met with support for a single multi-core processor.
- (D) Has qualified or is currently being reviewed for qualification by two or more independent software vendor (ISV) product certifications.