I’m not one of them, but what makes them idiots? Seems kind of uncalled for.

It’s obviously a play on the common phrase that the honest guy ends up being the idiot. Not because the honest guy is stupid but because the honesty ends up backfiring. It’s used all the time in video game DRM contexts.

Why did you link to another Lemmy post instead of submitting the article?

For hardware manufacturers like Nvidia: Massively.