“There are alternatives! You don’t *have to* own slaves, it’s just an option!”
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
There’s plenty of options. Many desktop mobos and CPUs support TPM2 through bios or firmware updates. Other desktop mobos have TPM headers and the modules go for $12-$30, but you have to track down the specific module compatible with your mobo as there is no standard pinout, even within the same manufacturer. There’s also one PCIE TPM2 card I found, but it’s from a company I don’t recognize and their site has no purchase button, just “contact us”, so that doesnct check out as legit to me.
Lastly, TPM2 has been a standard since 2015, with most manufacturers including it starting in 2016. At some point you have to accept that certain experiences will be unavailable to you without upgraded hardware. 10 years out of a computer before you start hitting hard limitations like this is a fucking great amount of life out of it.
tomiant@piefed.social 23 hours ago
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
You’re literally fucking comparing slavery to toggling two fucking things on the BIOS? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Nah fuck that, you gotta go. Image
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Erm, just for the record, the BIOS toggle does nothing to close the backdoor implanted in your system by the NSA and Intel. Would you like scientific papers on this topic?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
This probably isn’t the best place to share the fact I learned earlier this week, but did you know that Brazil received approximately 40% of all slaves in the Transatlantic slave trade? Kinda blew my mind. I only ask because of your meme. From Wiki:
Out of the 12 million Africans who were forcibly brought to the New World, approximately 5.5 million were brought to Brazil between 1540 and the 1860s.
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I’ve seen this shit reposted everywhere lately, and it feels like a fucking psyop too. Manufacturing some sort of consent.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
start going down the technical path with Linux to extend the life further.
linux won’t fix this kind of shit, because this is about an arbitrary limitation of wanting to lock the owner out of the system. these malware companies won’t ever recognize a free linux setup as “verified”
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The fact you’re getting downvoted is absurd. Mfs really want to play a MODERN TRIPLE A game like Battlefield 6 or Black Ops 7 with hardware from 2014!! You can literally go on used marketplaces and get stuff from like 2018-2019 that would run those games well enough! Hell, I’m pretty damn poor and I live in a country with terrible electronics taxes, and I still managed to get myself upgraded to semi-modern hardware by buying used!
tomiant@piefed.social 23 hours ago
We want to do it without providing a fucking urine sample ok
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Two toggles on the BIOS that are literally hash checks are an urine sample now? Wow.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 23 hours ago
rofl you think a newer system is actually necessary? What a cucky bitchboi opinion…
shininghero@pawb.social 23 hours ago
It’s more unusual than anything. TPM2 and Secure boot are requirements I would expect from a security compliance checklist and software handling at least somewhat valuable data, like maybe a password vault.
A steam game is the last place I would expect this.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Especially unusual bc there are kernel level anticheats that work just fine without it
pivot_root@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Once you delve into the technical parts of it, it’s actually not that unusual. I wrote more detail in another comment on this post, but the TLDR of it is that Secure Boot is meant to enforce the integrity of the boot procedure to ensure that only approved code runs before the Windows kernel gets control, and the TPM 2.0 is meant to attest to that. Together, they make it possible for anticheat to tell if something tried to rootkit Windows to evade detection.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
its like you are intentionally trying to misunderstand what they are saying, good work at it. Obviously, they didn’t deem SB and TPM unusual, but the types of software (entertainment industry products) demanding it while the software of the security industry does not.
consumers won’t benefit from this functionality, but many industries will in the foreseeable future
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You quoted the end of my comment, so you must have read this part:
For the threat model of anticheat software, verifying system integrity is not an unusual requirement.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It is for the anti-cheat, it seems, and for the case of BO7 it seems to actually have worked this time. I haven’t seen a hacker at all.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 hours ago
I haven’t either! Because I won’t willingly install a rootkit on my computer or play a game that requires malware…