Windows 11 TPM

[RodPad]

I asked a long time friend, to tell me his thoughts.
Before I shared this clip to others, etc.

He is the head IT for our county.
Like, Administration, Building, Engineering, Fire & EMS, Municipal Court, Parking, Planning, Police, Public Works, etc.
Got an award from Oregon a few years ago related to 911 dispatch for our county.

The video I shared.

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I will post his text response next.

Rod ..

 

[RodPad]

His Reply.

Very interesting.
I believe the computer industry is about to turn over a very dark page in history.

The sad part is that there is no real viable choice for the average user.
Would you build a Linux computer and expect your mom or the average person to know how to just start working with it?

This is the dystopian future the connectedness of the internet has brought us.
If you don't need to connect to the internet then you can run whatever OS you want and on any old computer, but that is not how people use their computers anymore.

They want to be connected, so now the manufacturers can dictate how you use that resource. Very dystopian.
Oh, and they will know everything about you.

I wanted to share this.

To me this chip being required?
So many things I think of right now, whats going to develop just this year.

That's what I got.

Please reply if you got any corrections, etc.
Thanks..

Rod ..

 

[anotherlab]

Ugh, more Click-Bait FUD. As a long-time Linux user, I always laugh when the fanatics raise the banner that this is the time to switch to Linux.

Windows 11 requires a TPM 2.0 chip to enable on-board security for BitLocker (disk encryption) and Windows Hello (biometric authentication).

It's annoying if you have a Windows 10 computer that doesn't have TPM 2.0 support. It's also going to be an older computer. TPM 2.0 became standard on new Windows computers 9 years ago. Windows 10 has reached the end of its life. I'm typing this on a 2016 HP All In One that can't be updated to Windows 11 by the usual channels. There are work arounds available that will let many Windows 10 machines update to Windows 11.

If you have an older computer that is running Windows 10 just fine, it's going to continue to run. But you will no longer receive any security updates unless you enroll in their Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. That will give you another 3 years of security support. It should be free for most consumers; at worst, it's $30.

Edit...
After posting this, I enrolled this ancient, yet useful, computer in the ESU program. I have an extra year of security updates for free.

 

[Cafguy]

As we move to A.I I think operating systems will mostly be for us geeks the rest of the world will move to little monitors that "Do it all". and answer every question.

 

[AnzacJack]

As we move to A.I I think operating systems will mostly be for us geeks the rest of the world will move to little monitors that "Do it all". and answer every question.

I was sooo mad when we in the Defence Department had to change from xtree gold to windows. Then when windows 95 came out, it was the devil. Dont get me started on y2K

Would we be better still operating with DOS and a third party file manager???

 

[Bad Santa]

The scary thing is we have so few options, now, for interacting with the world.
If you have PC system, your only options are Windows, with ONE supported version, Linux, which has a pretty steep learning curve, or iEverything.

It wouldn't take much for the entire infrastructure to collapse and we'd all be in the dark, literally.

 

[SkyAngel1]

Windows 10 is dead so they say. My 4 year old computer did not pass the test to upgrade. So rather then buy a new computer I followed this guys video. Upgraded no problem and seems to work just fine.

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[AnzacJack]

It wouldn't take much for the entire infrastructure to collapse and we'd all be in the dark, literally.

which would fix hacking, social media harassment and disinformation, dissemination of reliable and unreliable information and reigning in the growth of AI and Deepfakes.
I literally had this conversation with a group of year 12 students. They have recently read 1984 and Animal farm. It is getting scary when the solution to so many problems could be the cause of losing so many freedoms. Catch 22?