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Problem is, i havent enabled my TPM and don’t plan to, either.

TPM just gives your PC a non-spoofable fingerprint so Microsoft can always identify your PC. It’s simply a DRM-device built into your PC.

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Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Your PC is already identifiable by the license key, the hardware installed, and you signing in with a Microsoft Account. If you’re that worried about gummint tracking or something, you shouldn’t even be gaming on your PC, as games and game stores have a lot of data to leak about you and what you’re doing on the PC.

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- ares35@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  i don't sign-in to my systems with a microsoft account. hell, i don't even have one.
  
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just because you haven’t enabled it doesn’t mean it’s not available. If you want a modern operating system, that’s the “you must be this tall to ride this ride.”

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- ceiphas@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean a massively patched windows 2000 with modern OS? Does Linux count, or BSD? How about macOS?
  
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  - jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Linux if you’re prepared to support it entirely yourself and still have functional issues.
    
    MacOS if you want to pay 3x the price for hardware that’s 1/2 as capable and has locked you out of modifications.
    
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    GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Linux if you’re prepared to support it entirely yourself
    
    What does this even mean? The most work caused in administering my company's IT comes from destructive patches from Microsoft. Just like a month ago they released a security patch that caused the domain controller to not reboot which is pretty much the worst thing you can run into aside outright malicious actors (not sure Microsoft doesn't count as one). So I had to "support" users by rolling back untested shit until a hotfix was released.
    
    My private setup runs exclusively on Linux. Patches also sometimes cause trouble but it's just as infrequent and less destructive if it happens.
    
    It's really not that different from an admin point of view but it's not Linux' business model to snoop on or extort you.
    
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