Here is what most media is NOT telling you.
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You only have 10 days to revert back to Windows 10. https://archive.ph/9EeCN
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Windows 11 will crash CONSTANTLY on non supported hardware, which is why they are now requiring you sign a legal waiver (that no one will read) when you install it on non supported CPU's https://archive.ph/uvsQF "Microsoft says that PCs that didn't meet the requirements had "52% more kernel mode crashes" than PCs that did and that first-party apps crashed 43 percent more often on unsupported hardware."
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Windows 11 will run SLOWER on non supported hardware. "PCs without processors that support MBEC rely on software emulation called "Restricted User Mode," which does get you the security benefits but affects performance more. Some users who have tested the HVCI feature in Windows 10 on processors without MBEC support have noticed performance reductions of up to 40 percent, though this will depend on the tasks you're doing and the computer you're using."
The big changes are a forced HD encryption and TPM 2.0. What are the goals of these things?
The bitlocker is to make dual booting Linux much harder to use as you can't share data between OS's. Linux got easier to use, so now MS is making it harder.
TPM 2.0 serves many purposes and this is not the first time the industry and MS has tried to make it a requirement. They tried and failed with Windows 8, but the media is now more consolidated than ever and countries security employees (Germany was one) that called MS out are long gone. https://archive.ph/yTb0E
You will be hardware tracked, banned, shadowbanned and a VPN will be useless. If you have things to say on social media? Get them out now.
Outside privacy, It will end piracy. Think of it like hardware Denuvo on steroids that requires proprietary HW solutions to run well. If it is cracked then the CPU time to crack it will make the game run much, much worse. https://archive.ph/CK2cb "Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip. "There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now," he pointed out "What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world-"
How they will sell it to you. Expect more and more hacking in games, with articles from paid off media telling you how TPM 2.0 and Windows 11 adoption can fix this. Gamers will give up their PC to fix a problem that the game companies have every reason to see get worse. In addition Denuvo is getting worse and worse with CPU time and PCGaymer and other sites will tell you that TPM 2.0 will make your games run better because you won't need Denuvo anymore.
If you think the hardware companies are gonna stop this? You are delusional and they were on board from the start. They can now force CPU upgrades due to TPM and not performance anymore. Die shrinks are getting harder and harder. Now you have an artificial limit that forces upgrades. If anything is cracked they will simply move to a stronger TPM. Games will run worse on the old hardware. They could always crack it themselves or provide a solution (would be temporary and probably involve some hardware card) btw to force a CPU upgrade. Planned obsolescence.
Windows 11 is the death of PC Gaming and of you having a personal PC. It's now Microsoft's and their pals that own the thing (see PRISM program).
So what can you do? Nothing, people are too far gone and are arguing over fake counterculture and fake anarchists. Personally if you want to play games for a couple years (the game devs will eventually make TPM 2.0 and a Windows update a requirement) without being bothered with updates and a purposely sabotaged Windows 10 to force upgrades?
Get a VPN or a friend with one and torrent the new long term service branch version of Windows 10 that will be out later this year. Install that and never look back while transitioning to Linux with a dual boot. The future of games under TPM 2.0 will all be complete faggotry anyways. ATM they HAVE to hold back due to piracy. When they have no lost sales you will see SJW agendas reach peak faggotry and the entire industry is replacing the old guard with new employees. If you think Blizzard happened organically then you haven't been paying attention to investments. Google "Soros Blizzard Fintel". Sam Maggs was writing a Communist hero for COD long before the shit with Blizzard went down from the Stat of California. .
When this happens the only thing left will be old games, mods, multiplayer games that studios will release on Linux, but probably still require TPM. At least this way you don't have a stupid bitlocker and you can use another install for everything else.
Enjoy the endgame.
Digital liberty is within your grasp and you don't need to use operating systems that are complete spyware. You can use things like Linux or the BSD's, you can encrypt everything, you can hide behind TOR and VPN's, etc. The idea that you can do "nothing" is ridiculous. You can begin to take back your digital freedom right now. Will it take effort and sacrifice? Freedom always does. It is always worth it.
Software requires DRM, scared of the TPM? Learn about the high seas and learn about open-source. FOSS & Torrents offer far superior distribution methods and IP is basically fake and gay anyways.
Even with the only game I care about right now, Tarkov, I am playing it on Linux despite the fact that it doesn't support Linux and they would ban me from their servers if I tried to connect. Instead I'm running a open-source server as well that emulates the back-end just as I had my own private WoW server as a young teenager.
Beyond that, bravo fellow paranoid nutter.
BuT tHeN i CaNt PlAy FoRtNiTe!!!!
And thus we rot, step by step.
is tarkov one of those mmo free for all things?
Nah, it's a pay to play always online hardcore FPS that's very expensive.
https://www.escapefromtarkov.com/
What high level play looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF5ULp60WyI
Normally anyway, if you use justemutarkov you can host a server and connect to it and enable super hard bots.
I still own a copy Tarkov from BSG, and it was the last game last year before I deleted windows that was making me hold on but once I was clued into server emulation I figured out how to run everything on linux.
It's also made by heavily armed russians which is inherently based. The gun modding system is a gun nuts dream and uses real world parts and brands.
I haven't looked into Windows 11, but when I heard that its completely free, alarm bells went off, this would make sense why.
Are you sure it’s completely free or just free for current users to upgrade to? If a user had an oem version of windows 10 it’s a one time use thing. You build a new pc you have to buy a new license. That is unless you buy a twice as expensive version of windows and then it’s supposed to only be used on one box at a time.
Just did a quick search, yeah it looks like it might just be a free upgrade from Windows 10 for a limited time, so maybe it will be for sale later. I still just don't trust it, the way tech companies have been going (especially the past couple of years) it just seems like now would be the time to go to Linux. It just sucks, my job (working from home) has me using a lot of software that doesn't have Linux support. I am looking into using Linux with a virtual windows for my work software though.
I have this setup windows runs better as a VM on Ubuntu with vitualbox
I’m in the same boat. A lot of my software I need to use for my career is not supported on Linux and the alternatives are not up to par.
10 is free too
this is just another facet of the war on general computing
Being that I have a Intel Haswell CPU I have no intention of getting rid of, I don't suppose I get support anyway. Already dual boot anyway, Windows 10 was getting a bit obnoxious.
Besides, with Steam Deck being a thing now, isn't that theoretically going to bolster Linux support for games?
Any nerds out there have any explanation for how Hardware tracking with TPM works? my understanding is that TPM is used to enhance encryption on your own hardware. While I totally see how this could be used to store things on your computer that you, the user, will never be able to get rid of, I'm puzzled as to how this will end Internet privacy. Couldn't you just use a browser that doesn't send the TPM info along with the packet?
right, so a unique identifier exists on your system, and normie programs like Anti Cheat software and Chrome will likely append it to all outgoing packets. But what' stopping us from using a browser that doesn't append the identifier to the GET requests?
The way I see it, services that will use this kind of authentication already do their very best to track user activity, and that the very act of using them compromises you.
Whereas the privacy-oriented services likely will not use this kind of authentication. Privacy on the Internet won't die, it will just be stamped out of the services that already do everything in their power to eliminate it.
Doesn’t work that way. Local programs talk to the TPM chip through the OS API, if it is enabled. It won’t have anything to do with things at the network layer.
bro, i thnk youre takig the blackpils a little bit too seriously. i agree that things can be looking a little bleak, but theres no need for ya to be so negative, theres always hope when youre a gamer ;). member the old gg slogans? chin up bro
Anything that depends on TPM access, will be able to uniquely identify you.
So, let's say Easy-Anti-Cheat is updated to depend on the TPM. Well, once the EAC code is executed by the TPM and returned, it will have your ID in it. - That's the software-level.
The worse problem is the hardware level. Do you know what HDCP is? It means a device that outputs videos, can require a cable and display that also support HDCP. It requires that all of them forward certain information, and obey certain restrictions.
The prevalence of TPMs will make it feasible to rollout HDCP-like solutions for the internet. Your ISP won't let you connect unless your network-card and router support "Windows HDCP for The Series of Tubes". Hardware manufacturers will add TPMs as a requirement for their network cards. For their routers. For their modems.
...and every fucking one of them will have a kill-switch accessible by those who monitor your 'social-credit-score'.
best explanation on this thread, thank you!
I can explain what a TPM is in simple terms. The magical thing about computers is that, at the bottom layer, everything is totally meaningless. It’s just 0s and 1s. We arrange these 0s and 1s in particular patterns and then ascribe meaning to those patterns, which is how we are able to distinguish sequences of 0s and 1s as separate things like images or text.
The “problem” with this situation, at least as seen from the corporate perspective, is that it’s incredibly easy to fake things in software. You can spoof IP addresses, authentication mechanisms, logins, lots of things, because of the fact that it’s all bits at the bottom. That’s why DRM in games has been so easy to crack.
So what’s the answer to this “problem”? You need something which cannot be faked in software, which means you need a hardware component. Every single TPM module has a unique key burned into it at the factory. This key has a public and private component.
That’s not how it would work. The software that wants to know your identity would communicate with the TPM chip through the OS API, and it would ask for your public key information or cert. Remember, this key is burned in at the factory and not changeable. That’s the whole point. You can’t spoof your identity anymore because it is tied to the hardware chip. It’s your computer’s serial number now.
Network communication is not directly affected here, so this doesn’t affect internet privacy. However, anything which you install on your computer may be able to extract this public key. It is a worrying direction imo.
Yes, the TPM shit is obviously horrendously bad and it fucking glows like a crater in fallout, but...
Do you seriously believe Microsoft is just gonna kill a multi-billion dollar industry? Do you honestly think they would shoot themselves in the foot to that degree?
Threatening me with a good time, rofl
TBF, I think it's intended as the death of PC gaming as we know it, it's going to become 100% SJW globohomo politically correct garbage.
And not even mods will be allowed to keep it on life support.
You mean, like they did with the comic book industry?
The comic book industry was dead in the water before the SJW's even got their foot in the door.
The comics were completely and utterly eclipsed by the movies built on their IP's to the point that Marvel and DC no longer gave a rats ass about who was doing what in their comic division.
And if you look at the AAA gaming industry, they're heading the exact same route.
Most of the big companies are only profiting from annual sports titles and a few online games with microtransactions out the wazoo.
As others have said time and time over again, all of these changes aren't about profit but about spreading the message.
A closed-in ecosystem where they can limit end-user software through hardware DRM means they finally take control over every sector of the software industry, including mods, emulation, jailbreaking, etc.
Some Russian indie dev makes a red-pilled shooter game they don't want you to play? Cripple the CPU so you don't get good frame-rates. Some Japanese dev made a mod to fix the latest tranny protagonist in some "immersive", "cinematic" PC port of a PlayStation/Xbox game? Make it where unverified mods cripples your hardware performance.
These changes aren't to convince people like you and I about consuming their indoctrination, it's about creating an ecosystem for the next generation where they will be inculcated from every single angle with the zeitgeist's propaganda. From movies, to music, to children's education, to comic books, to video games.
Controlling the delivery and consumption is one aspect. However, the real goal is limiting what users consume that isn't controlled propaganda. Doing so directly from the user-end, and by the hardware no less, means that there are no workarounds possible.
Oh well. Won't effect me. Haven't touched anything AAA in almost a decade.
I'm mostly in the same boat as you when it comes to avoiding AAA titles for PC gaming (with a few exceptions, like the Mad Max game from 2015, which was really, really, really good).
But I do worry about upgrading in the possible near future. I would hate to buy a new system that's already locked into this TPM nonsense.
Right now I have a more-than-adequate gaming rig that was designed for 4K gaming, but what happens when it's time to buy something new?
Small brain logic. Why do you assume you will be allowed to wait? Try this one: what happens when your ISP won't let you connect to the internet without Windows 11 and TPM credentials?
That's a very good point.
Use a windows 11 machine with TPM credentials as a proxy?
they shit the bed with windows store. this is also the company that released windows 8.0 and windows 10 (lmao)
do I think????\
You are not the target audience
Yes, those are two widely used operating systems that probably 90% of people reading your post are using one of, and 5% are still on Windows 7.
They've blown more on stupidity.
/so happy that I switched to GNU/Linux permanently
I can't wait for the last device supporting Linux to be made.
It will be fun to see if the leftist-shitstreaks wake up when there is literally no CPU on earth that will boot Linux.
Stockpile now from Goodwills and Pawn-Shops. Linux runs just fine on Windows7-era hardware. This'll maybe buy you a few more years.
edit: I should have specified, it's just a different edition of Windows 10, like Pro, Home or Education.
The Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) is made for enterprise and big companies and it comes with useful features for our situation, most importantly:
You correctly guessed that it's not free, however they are never going to sell it to you.
You will need a special crack but if my info is correct that should have become fairly easy to obtain nowadays.
Fuck it: I haven't bought a 'video game' since 2003, and I have enough Goodwill and Pawn-Shop sourced hardware to last the rest of my life on linux. I used to think I needed Windows for QuickBooks, but now I'm running it on MX Linux and a ten-year old Mac Mini.
I think I might switch to OpenPOWER, even though IBM are a bunch of scumbags too. Of course, having a place big enough to house and power a mainframe type server like that might be hard, I think it'll be worth it otherwise.
Perhaps raptor computing might make another round of motherboards for it soon. Never say never, this doomer shit is getting old.
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How am I supposed to know?
It's not false. What is false about it?
Again, how am I supposed to know?
Sorry, I was hoping the reporter would come by and explain.
It's okay. :)
based post, but 8 is still available and for 1-2 more years. a tiny bit better than 11 or 10, but also think about open source later on.
No way I'll use TPM.
This is some tinfoil.
Over the last 18 months, reality has been non-stop tinfoil.
Care to explain why this is "tinfoil" as you say? Is it because you can't find a way to blame women for it?
What does Microsoft gain from unmasking all of their users?
The idea that OP presented of W11 being a way to stop people hiding behind VPN is ridiculous.
Information control on the user level.
same thing that android does.
In the post there are only provable facts and reasonable speculations that are not at all tinfoil-worthy if you consider the present and past behavior of Microsoft and friends.
tinfoil compared to SECRETLY taking your wifi passwords in w10?
But now it's not free
The difficulty isn't having both. The difficulty is in sharing data between them.
It requires the Windows drive to be encrypted. I don't know if it requires all the drives to be encrypted.