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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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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After we cure COVID, we should make Linux not suck.
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well, that should be easy, we'll just get the Linux community to reach consensus on user experiences that are comfortable and accessible for a broad and diverse user base with varying degrees of expertise. …oh. wait. I just remembered what the Linux community is LIKE. fuck.
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