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minus-squarepaperplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoI wonder why a permission-based approach wouldn’t be feasible. Most websites don’t need GPU access anyway, so why couldn’t a game or simulation just prompt the user quickly for granting access to the GPU?
minus-squareVincent@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoI wouldn’t even know what the implications of allowing it would be, and I’m a programmer. I just want to play the game. In other words, the permission prompt would achieve nothing except annoy me and make me ignore prompts.
I wonder why a permission-based approach wouldn’t be feasible. Most websites don’t need GPU access anyway, so why couldn’t a game or simulation just prompt the user quickly for granting access to the GPU?
I wouldn’t even know what the implications of allowing it would be, and I’m a programmer. I just want to play the game.
In other words, the permission prompt would achieve nothing except annoy me and make me ignore prompts.