so the requirements doc for MS's Win11 launch site just said "literally copy Apple, don't even pretend", huhpic.twitter.com/Mllq6zCu0v
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(don't get smart with me about that always being MS's strategy, I'm forty-two years old and have been using computers my whole life, I know that perfectly well, but this is much more blatant than usual.)
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anyway the secure boot and TPM 2.0 requirements are much worse than the aesthetics
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requiring Secure Boot and TPM is Microsoft leveraging their existing (effective) monopoly power and high degree of customer lock-in to reduce your ownership over your own things that you buy with your own money, and increase the degree of lock-in so you can't easily escape.
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it sucks and it's frustrating. these technologies don't help consumers, but they're sold and promoted with dishonest language that most people don't have the expertise to see through, or the background knowledge to recognize the harmful ramifications.
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SB/TPM requirements prevent a lot of people who build their own computers from upgrading to Windows 11, make it harder to dual-boot with Linux or other OSes, and push consumers to a more passive, Apple-like, no-user-serviceable-parts-inside, buy-a-new-one-every-2-years model
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And frustrating, because there are *reasons* I loathe using Macs and only have them for work
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