Do you feel that way for Windows 10/11?

This is dumb and blind cynicism.

Is it dumb? Many manufacturers already do this. Samsung had a case recently where they bricked all of the stolen smart TVs. Apple would do this as well. Basically any technology product company has or is considering having the ability to brick stolen devices.

And I'm not against this either. The law can provide a strong set of rights for actual owners, but if your product is stolen, you have no rights over it.

A GPU is a component, not a complete system.

For laptops and smartphones, sure being stolen a common risk, and that kind of functionality grants the end-user some protection, and perhaps a chance to recover the good.

For TVs and motherboards, GPUs, printers, etc it's basically superfluous DRM that typically only serves the manufacturer.

Overall Smart TVs have been the polar opposite of user-respecting technology.

Of course anti theft serves the manufacturer. And I think that is ok. If you have a stolen product, you have 0 rights to use or posses that product.

Once you purchase the product legitimately, you now have legal protection so that the OEM may not lock you out. Products should respect the owner. Stolen products are still owned by the OEM and not the person physically holding the product.

99.99% of TVs aren't stolen, why am I forced to run this DRM on my property?

Almost appropriate. 99.99% of houses are never robbed and yet everybody locks them. Of course we can leave our doors unlocked and that's the difference: choice. We should be able to turn off DRM. I can accept that without DRM I can't watch that streaming service (even if there are many ways to circumvent and/or to prove a purchase) but not to use a product for my own sake (eg: run my software on it.)

Maybe more like 99.0% of houses. a year. And there are places where people don't lock their doors at all

I literally did this with my Kindle when it was stolen.

Cute.

somehow this is the exact word that came to my mind when I read this.

will still use C*.

Whoops, thanks for catching that, though the edit window's passed.

The spring paradox is a neat example of this: https://youtu.be/Cg73j3QYRJc

The shortest route only remains the shortest if a minority take it.

0.004" is read as "four thou", and 0.0005" as "five tenths", as in five tenths of a thou, FWIW.

I only picked up imperial thanks to binging This Old Tony videos.

If you enjoy https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony, you might also enjoy https://www.youtube.com/c/Clough42 https://www.youtube.com/c/Blondihacks and https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnGrimsmo

Unless it's PCB, in which case its "4 mil", as in milliinches, among the great bastardized units

I think you hand them over regardless, the logout is to render them invalid.

I wonder how many sites neglect that part.

For me a metaverse would be a collection of objects overlayed on our physical world.

FWIW Roblox was created in '04 and launched in '06, Myspace peaked '05-'09.