California to ban selling new gas-powered cars by 2035

[oil pan 4]

New incredibly stupid idea hot off the press in you guessed it, California.
Get this now they are banning gaming PVs to save electricity. So they can force people to buy electric cars and still turn off the electricity.

stoopid californiastand

I'm not a huge bill fan, he regularly goes too far right or too religious but I agree on this one.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

New incredibly stupid idea hot off the press in you guessed it, California.
Get this now they are banning gaming PVs to save electricity. So they can force people to buy electric cars and still turn off the electricity.

I'm not a huge bill fan, he regularly goes too far right or too religious but I agree on this one.

The "ban" was put into place back in 2016. Dell and others just haven't complied or haven't gotten some of their computers certified.

The wording also makes it to where they more capable a computer is, the more power it can legally draw. There's a greater chance for smaller, less energy consuming computers to not meet the standard than big full blown gaming rigs.

It also affects secret started that adopted the bill, including Colorado and even Canada.

[freebeard]

My schadenfreude evaporated when I found out it's the whole Pacific United States plus Vermont and Colorado.

Isaac Zachary -- Can you provide a citation? I have no interest in a gaming graphics card, but I am attracted to a [3D printed] 1U rack of Raspberry Pis for a render farm.


https://thingiverse.com/search?q=ras...+pi+rack+mount...

[Isaac Zachary]

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https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/defa...%2C%202021.pdf

It's called California's Title 20. It's part of a much bigger set of laws and regulations that affect many other things besides computers.

I know that Linus Tech Tips is going to produce a video where they custom build two PC's, one that's a low tier computer that's hardly fast enough to game on that doesn't meet California's Title 20 energy requirements and one that's, as he puts it, "balls to the wall, top-of-the-end" gaming computer that does meet California's Title 20 energy requirements.

Note that Title 20 only affects prebuilt computers. If you custom build one yourself you can build it however you like, even in California.

From what I've seen it seems that the media has taken this regulation out of context and hyped it up making it look like California is against PC gamers or something like that.

[oil pan 4]

The bam should be ruled unconstitutional on 1st ammendment grounds.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

The bam should be ruled unconstitutional on 1st ammendment grounds.

Why's that? The United States of America's first amendment guarantee's freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. I don't see how that relates to an efficiency regulation.

But if Title 20 is unconstitutional, wouldn't that mean all efficiency regulations would be unconstitutional? For an example, cars could burn as much fuel as manufacturers make them to (i.e. bring back the Mazda RX series).

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

Why's that? The United States of America's first amendment guarantee's freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. I don't see how that relates to an efficiency regulation.

But if Title 20 is unconstitutional, wouldn't that mean all efficiency regulations would be unconstitutional? For an example, cars could burn as much fuel as manufacturers make them to (i.e. bring back the Mazda RX series).

The computer is the modern equivalent of the printing press, messenger service, book store, art museum, tavern, town hall meeting, it may even be how some people attend their religious service.
So yeah a computer gives all those easily.

[freebeard]

The Constitution of the United States binds the government in chains. The correct antidote to this is an educated populace.

duckduckgo.com/?q=republic+depends+on+educated+citizens

When Facebook ate Myspace's lunch I knew we were in trouble.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

The computer is the modern equivalent of the printing press, messenger service, book store, art museum, tavern, town hall meeting, it may even be how some people attend their religious service.
So yeah a computer gives all those easily.

But a car could be said to be all of those too.

And it's not that all computers are banned. Only new prebuilt ones that don't go into sleep after 30 minutes by default.

[freebeard]

I watched the video and now I'm more confused (than usual).

High-expandability computers require a 600 Watt power supply? Is the Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO included?

GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) Definition
https://techterms.com/definition/gpio
GPIO Stands for "General Purpose Input/Output." GPIO is a type of pin found on an integrated circuit that does not have a specific function. While most pins have a dedicated purpose, such as sending a signal to a certain component, the function of a GPIO pin is customizable and can be controlled by software.

It has two 5V pins.

5v Power at Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout
https://pinout.xyz/pinout/pin2_5v_power
Physical/Board pin 2 The 5v power pins are connected directly to the Pi's power input and will capably provide the full current of your mains adaptor, less that used by the Pi itself. With a decent power supply, such as the official 3A adapter on the Pi 4, you can expect to pull about 1A to 2A.

Offtopic, sosume:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-udLtaPk8

Actually, since it's mostly about shut-down/restart controlled by the car's key, maybe it is.