Not excusing any of this, but this has all been in the works since late 1990s / early 2000s. I recall when Intel announced their chips would have a specific ID and Microsoft said they were going to use that in Windows to stop piracy and whatever else they wanted to do.

There was a huge uproar about it and Intel backed down.

But bit by bit they included that technology in successive generations without really announcing it, or by calling it something else.

That was back around the time when I first started getting into Linux and it was largely because of that whole hubbub, even though I’ve never had a computer with an intel processor myself, but I assumed AMD would follow suit.

It took 20 some years but here we are, but with an even worse version of the original plan. Games and OSes are requiring you to enable that tracking to even use them now. It was the plan all along but now it’s here and it isn’t going to go away.

Yeah its only getting worse. People need to get tf out of proprietary ecosystems now, android and chrome included, though MS is probably the most egregious at this exact moment

His examples of debanking are pretty chud coded (Nigel Farage, Trucker Convoy, ‘China Social Credit Score’), but this is certainly a very depressing situation with the TPM being linked to a chain of services which are required by potentially vital third party applications.

Now I need to find an alternative for full drive encryption and I guess I will never be able to us the little fingerprint dongle I just bought ever to generate passkeys or with Bitwarden.

Depending on the level of knowledge required to avoid using TPM, I honestly just might not be able to avoid it.

And that windows recall thing is absolutely unhinged. First time I heard someone mention it I thought they they were just making shit up