[gymbeaux]

To be fair Nvidia is the de-facto king of “planned obsolescence” and “remove features for no reason other than to force people to pay more $$$”. I think they’re even worse than Apple in this regard.

My favorite one of many examples of this is when Nvidia said “okay, fine, we’ll allow customers to enable G-Sync (adaptive refresh) on any display, but only 1000 series and newer GPUs!” No hardware limitation for this, they just didn’t want to give any 900-series holdouts a reason not to upgrade.

Then there’s the arbitrary lock on using consumer Nvidia GPUs in passthrough on a level 1 hypervisor. Sometimes there are unofficial workarounds but why do I have to go through that hassle at all? Ain’t nobody realistically going to buy consumer grade GPUs to throw in datacenter racks… but even if they were, so what? It’s their hardware, they bought it, let them use it. No reason whatsoever to block passthrough on consumer cards except $$$.