> I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that privacy is kept.
I'd rather see laws to have it disabled by default. People who don't mind can then opt-in again.
If we do that the relative cost of software will increase and reliability will overall decrease. This doesn't sound like a great outcome for end users who will end up dealing with both of these things.
Four people seems to be an interesting threshold when it comes to groups. The British special forces, for example, started doing four man teams and several units of other countries followed their example (SEALS, KSK, etc).
Graphics cards are already dead for me (as a causual gamer). I recently bought a used notebook with a 12th Gen Intel Core processor and it can run an impressive list of games.
I’m very happy with the Steam Deck as my main gaming machine which has integrated graphics and runs most new games great. If I were to play on a big screen I’d still go for something like a 3070 or better with the new AI upscaling to use the 4k screen. Not looking to shell out the money for that kind of a PC right now though
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF