I was just expecting it to be something built into chrome, similar to how drivers need to be signed to run in windows, they’d force you to use browsers Signed By Google to be verifiably compliant with the DRM. It seems like the easiest option for them and the most well understood since it’s been used for drivers for so long

You can not just pass through, but share any¹ gpu you like using HyperV. Yes it’s Win10Pro, but there are pleeeeenty of ways to get it enabled/installed/supported on Home as well. Though if you have an Nvidia card 20 series or older, and you’re willing to dive into linux as a dual boot, I’d say qemu/virt-manager is a pretty mainstream VM solution, and vGPU is also a good tech for the same purpose.

₁ I’m not actually sure what the limits on hyperv are but it seems fairly robust. Don’t quote me on it lol

Wait were they seriously looking to implement it at a FIRMWARE level? jesus that’s just stupid.

That’s where you’d be wrong! I’m running it on my 1080ti right now. It can be hacked into working on just about any Nvidia card that’s recent enough to want to use it. A bit of a community has ended up growing around a group that makes patches for the official vGPU drivers, along with merge scripts, to give the hypervisor the ability to retain regular function (accelerated display out through the DP/HDMIs), while also fooling the vGPU part of the driver into thinking the random consumer card is supported. Unfortunately locked down on 30 series and newer :(, but it’s still a VERY cool use for a card like the 1080ti that has become VERY cheap

I could go into the conspiratorial 4D chess I’m sure google is playing, but let me ask this instead: Does you bank not have any captchas, anywhere in the flow of accessing/using their website? Cause if they do, I hope you know google is absolutely going to advertise DRM requirements as the best tech for fighting bot traffic. Even if Google wasn’t doing anything like offering cheap training to their standards to influence the future of the cybersecurity space, that would be PLENTY to get a looooot of big corporations, including banks, to use it.

Close, but that’s not what I mean. I mean SEAMLESS sharing, not playing tennis with it. Is it really so poorly known? Should I write up a little introduction to the parts of it that I’m familiar with?

They want to go back to the days of websites requiring internet explorer… just this time with their browser. Even though getting away from that culture is most of the reason people ever switched to chrome. I will say though, just using firefox for everything you can isn’t enough of a protest. If this goes the way Google (Alphabet I guess) wants it to, you bank will require you to use a browser with DRM. You will be forced to use a browser whose source code you can’t verify as secure, to access your bank. And that is where the protest lines need to be drawn. If your bank does that? Send your message. Close the account. Take back your money. Now I’d personally do this for everything possible, but that would be a looooot of time spent getting very little across to companies that don’t care if you visit their site. Taking money from banks though? Yeah it might be a whole process where you gotta request it, verify in person, wait a week to get the cash, and THEN close it, but so what? A couple hours of doing stuff and then a week of business as usual before a couple more hours opening a new bank account. That’s more than worth doing to send a REAL message.