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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always just kill my TPM chip. It's so obvious tpm will be used in the future for application offline DRM. They will executed encrypted operations under the TPM veil and decompilers will become unusable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you kill your TPM chip?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Level 1, turn off in bios

Level 2, desolder from motherboard

Level 3, remove cpu pins related to tpm

Level 4, decap cpu, laser off tpm bus or blocks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

TPM is basically never for your benefit. It's becoming a requirement because Microsoft is going to one day say "you can only run apps installed from the Windows Store, because everything else is insecure" and lock down the software market. Valve knows this which is why they're going so hard on the Steam Deck and Linux.