Yes. It is not uncommon.

Also, the license gives one some knowledge about what one is actually doing with the transceiver. Without that it isn’t really a hobby anyway. It just becomes an illegal walkie talkie.

Tbh, I can’t condone that as a ham myself. And yes, you can be caught. It happens all the time and fines are hefty.

The basic ham license (called “Technician”) is very easy and cheap. Just get one.

You do not need a license to listen to ham radio with a traditional transceiver. You only need a license to transmit.

There are no licensing requirements for equipment purchases.

There doesn’t really have to be one. There companies have deep pockets and the legal process itself is long and costly. They know you might win, but they also know you can’t afford to slog through the process to actually get an outcome.

Personally, I’d take this as a red flag about the company to which you would be applying. It sucks, but tells you what they think about “people”.

Guns are useful for a fearful populace, to give them the illusion of some kind of control.

And the other side of that coin is: personally I’ll happily accept shimmering and moire effects if it means I don’t lock myself into yet one more corporate ecosystem.

FSR also combats those things, but can run on any GPU.

Replace every fine with executive jail time.

Watch the world change.

This may be a hot take downvoted to oblivion, but I think DLSS and all similar AI-dependent frame generation type stuff is a band-aid on a problem that won’t (or shouldn’t) exist for long, in the grand scheme of things.

If you have performance improvements, you ultimately don’t need such things once that performance reaches an acceptable level.

So two things may be happening:

1. Performance improvements are not possible anymore. That seems false, because we still see them. Costs are high, but they’re there.

2. Things like DLSS allow corps to give you less performance while still maintaining an illusion of a good experience. It ultimately reduces hardware costs, which the corpos ultimately just pocket.

I lean strongly towards 2 at the moment. Notice how nvidia also continues to push DLSS as an exclusive feature – notably different from FSR in that regard, while FSR is admitted to be a tech allowing for better framerate on lower-end hardware.

For nvidia, it’s a selling point, and it allows them to sell you less hardware with fewer actual improvements. It is the same snake that just wants you to (eventually) stream games instead of processing them locally, because it enhances corporate control.

Soon *nix will be the only legal fetish. Until they get to it.

This is an excellent observation.

We now no longer have the debate over whether or not this content is necessarily harmful to minors. It’s now automatically bad, and the new framing is: shouldn’t we ban bad things?

Should expect more of this kind of newspeak/doublespeak as the Trump years continue.

Red states are about to get even more “freedom”.

You get what you vote for.

**tearing everything apart

when prices are expected to drop

Keep it up, media. Let’s make sure people notice that shit doesn’t actually go down.

The real problem will be when the media stops reporting on prices altogether.

But will the free speech absolutist chime in?

When will we start holding these people accountable? It is easy to say “corporations are bad” and then sit on your hands. It’s different to start calling out the people who ultimately make the corporations evil.

We have whole classes of people comfortable fucking people over – sometimes with deadly consequences.

Hey cool, one more excuse to see a rich person get away with everything

Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.

I mean, he did give a generous “personal donation” to the Trump inauguration.