[dotancohen]

Maybe not demand that it be unlockable, but rather if Nvidia were to provide a paid upgrade path to unlock these features that would help. They would need some way to prevent the open source drivers from accessing the features, though.

[fransje26]

> but rather if Nvidia were to provide a paid upgrade path to unlock these features that would help.

You do not revert a blown e-fuse with a software update.

[dotancohen]

Yes, but an e-fuse would not be the only way to lock the feature if Nvidia were to want to unlock it later.

[fransje26]

The point being that they knowingly went down the e-fuse route to make sure nobody could unlock it later.

They probably learnt their lesson in the early 2000s, when users could do a bit of soldering and apply a patch to unlock more performance on cards that had been artificially throttled.