No patents ensures that if an individual does invent something, only corporations can profit off it because they can just put the inventor out of business by undercutting, rather than having to pay the inventor.

Unfortunately, they do protect corporations more than individual inventors purely because corporations have more R&D budget.

Going to take you a lot of time with a soldering iron. These are soldered HBM2 chips, not the DDR DIMMs you want. Still manufactured in the same facilities so they hold up that manufacturing capacity but can’t really be repurposed.

You’re forgetting that they don’t NEED to know precise age unless they’re doing it for a government mandated age check.

For marketing purposes, which is what they REALLY want your data for, they have a profile of you that’s accurate enough even if your age is off by 5 years.

They have other ways of determining your age without requiring an extremely unpopular ID check.

None of the things you mentioned would incur an age check here because car rental companies demand your driver’s license anyway, nobody cares about movie ages, and for alcohol you have to be ID’d in person upon delivery.

You would also think democratic governments have no incentive to legislate something like chat control, but there’s always factions that want to control people, including here in the EU.

The ruling classes are scared of what the peasants might get up to when inequality gets too bad or policies too unpopular. Just because it’s less bad here than some other places doesn’t mean people aren’t feeling the effects of it. The people at Brussels must be glad that Estonians don’t have guns and can’t afford two tanks of diesel anyway, because otherwise I reckon there would be a lot of people shooting up the place over energy prices and whatever. Age checks aren’t of much help here, but it adds extra reliability to any browser fingerprint to real identity lookups. Though if you use government services or banks at all, that’s already more or less a done deal.

That already tells the government that I’m accessing porn because why else would I need to confirm I’m an adult online? And why would they implement it in a somewhat private manner if it could be implemented in a privacy-infringing manner?

It’s mostly just that I don’t want the government to know precisely which websites I visit. Nor do I want the the porn sites to know exactly who I am.

Let me have my privacy. I’ve been watching porn since I was 12 or 13 and absolutely would’ve figured out a way to do it even if there’d been age restrictions because I was horny af. Nothing bad has happened to me because of it. Perhaps a mild addiction to masturbation unless I’m having sex but that hurts literally nobody. Worse case scenario I last a little too long occasionally.

Block pornhub and teens will find much seedier sites.

It’s not eugenics if you just confiscate them at birth. This is already being done with severely unfit parents

AMD for sure is trying to manufacture mostly server GPUd for AI, but does Intel even have anything competitive in that space?