Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US
Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US
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lol, it has a microcenter letter head. If it was a legal declaration as required by export controls / law, it would be a real fucking legal form from the US government. This looks like a hilarious data grab. Slimey fucks.
Papers, please!
We are a fucking joke of a country at this point.
What is the point of that, does the US need to keep consumer cards in the hands of random citizens for some reason? UK here and I could just buy one and not have that restriction surely.
Also imagine some clown saying what you can and can't do with your £4k+ GPU! At that far above what they're meant to retail for it should be delivered by helicopter and come with some complimentary lines.
Not if you don't live in the US. Mind you, it'll still cost as much as a small car so its not exactly straight forward.
What stops someone from reselling within the US. They didn't sign the agreement with Micro Center.
Something tells me this is the AI companies not wanting people to run local AI models in other countries.
nah I think it's just to appease the Orange Ape. Other then China AI companies wouldn't care if people ran models in a different country, after all they would still make money just via different part of the bubble
nvidia: here's your hardware, paying customer.
customer: Tha-
us govt: no, i want it! mine!! mine mine mine mine mine!
Sounds like ITAR or EAR. Assuming EAR: Welcome to the minefield that is buying a firearm. If it winds up overseas and someone decides to throw the book at you then it's a federal felony. With that driver's license scanned I'm sure it'll be protected very well, so there's no need to worry. If you got a prebuilt through Costco, your purchase probably got recorded through their membership system (or that information could be reported retroactively if the rule is new).
I remember this being an issue for the Playstation 3 (or was it 2) back in the day. Is there anything more recent than the 5090 that this has been applied to?
If this is about Saddam using it to send missilies, it was the PS2
Saddam was using PS2s to launch missiles? Couldn’t you do that better with some old laptop?
That reminds me, did they find a PlayStation along with all the porno VHS tapes in bin laden’s hidey room?
There is some inkling of truth to this (the PS2 being used for military use, not Saddam buying them). At launch the Emotion Engine, largely thanks to the VPUs, could achieve a higher theoretical output than the most expensive PC CPUs of the time IF you could parallelize the arithmetic*. They're very well suited to calculate stuff like trajectories.
Anecdotally, Kazuhiko Aoki (the legendary game dev of Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy fame, not the policitian), said that during the development of Final Fantasy IX, they had to check if the game worked on PS2's backwards compatibility, and they had problems sending a devkit from Japan to Hawaii
*Total of 6.2 GFlops when you combine all three, which is higher than the Pentium 4 Willamette and Athlon Thunderbird.
Talk about OBE.
I would be tempted to sell it overseas out of spite. Also I like lying to corpos, so me promising anything to them is like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.
That is the most interesting use of that phrase I have run across
I'll take that as a compliment, thank you.
I have never heard that analogy in this type of context.
But anyway isn’t the form more for the government than the “corpos”? This is like export control.
It's like tears in the rain, no one really notices or cares, I just thought that was a more funny way to use that analogy. Insignificance. Also this has no legal standing, explain that to a newly enlisted on how their computer can't leave the country on a deployment. I don't think the government would touch this with a ten foot pole.
Daily most people agree to worse than a non enforceable rag like this