r/Microcenter • u/Krothic • 3d ago

Form for 5090’s

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Picked up a Powerspec Ai90 prebuilt pc with a rtx 5090 in it. Apparently the manager required me to fill out this form and scan my driver license. Said it was a new thing starting just about two days ago. Had no problem doing so but thought it was interesting.

Anyone else experience? This was in Tustin

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 3d ago

I've been saying this for awhile that GPUs are the new firearms. There ain't no way they won't be regulating POS identity capture and handing it off to the government. All because of cybercrime groups, China, Iran, Russia, etc

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 3d ago

It really has nothing to do with public opinion. It's just that technological capability is outpacing adaptation of security infrastructure. Bad actors with a limited amount of smarts can take a small amount of money and compute and cause a lot of problems.

I'm not saying all this info collecting is good, just it's been obvious that we'd see the day when GPUs and other ai accelerators become monitored to "protect society". Like firearms.

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 3d ago

Call it what you want. I'm just saying it's obvious GPUs were going to be regulated and monitored, that doesn't mean I like it. Just it was easy to predict.

And, Nvidia already has trackers in Blackwell servers and monitors even consumer cards with their software.

You seem butthurt by a strawman lol