as far as i can tell this particular image is fake. and as far as i know pluton does not work like that.
The year that happens would be the year of Linux desktop. Which is also said to be a not-so-distant future for over a decade.
Could be, but the rumor of something like this happening had existed since the Vista era.
I don’t think it’s happening mostly because there is no real benefit for Microsoft. IP holders are not hounding Microsoft, and their store market share is inexistent.
Buuuuuuuuut just in case I use arch (btw)
I typically don’t concern myself with fake screenshots.
You’re pirating posts now? https://feddit.de/post/1292959 (4 months ago)
Also, why are you still using Windows?
I hadn’t heard of Microsoft Pluton, so I looked it up. It sounds like it’s some kind of CPU hardware module that implements security policies directly into the system. Pretty gross, but should be easy enough to avoid by just not buying computers with that processor.
IMO this post is a bit misleading because the image without context makes it seem as though the Windows OS is the thing intervening here, when that doesn’t appear to be the case.
should be easy enough to avoid by just not buying computers with that processor
Intel ME / AMD PSP are similar things already on CPUs today, and because pretty much all x86 CPUs have it, it’s very hard to avoid it. They’re basically builtin Intel/AMD spyware and the only way you can get rid of them is by using something like Coreboot, which has very limited availability
This post is misleading (and apparently fake?) for a lot of reasons.
But
Pretty gross, but should be easy enough to avoid by just not buying computers with that processor.
Not really. TPM 2 (?) is already (effectively) a requirement for Windows 11. Yes, you can (probably) still choose to buy a CPU and Mobo that don’t support it but there is zero incentive for manufacturers to make those going forward. Why would Intel or AMD or Gigabyte or whatever make a device that can’t install the OS that the vast majority of their customers will want to use? And Windows 10 will be EOL sooner than later.
Assuming it hasn’t already happened (and it probably has, but I just can’t be bothered to check), there will be no non-TPM 2.0 options in the very near future. And that will extend to whatever hardware Pluton and whatever else require.
Microsoft has a lot of pull on hardware manufacturers, like all PCs are required to contain a TPM module in order to be compatible with Windows 11. And sadly, most consumers will either want a macOS or Windows-based systems. Unless we see more ARM and/or RISC-V systems becoming mainstream, systems without a TPM module are not going to be very common outside of enthusiasts circles.
Yeah that’s new to me. I have hundreds of movies since I run a Plex server for friends and family. Very concerning.
