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You do know that the european type e and c also have shutters… Right? :p

Jokes on you, e2e encryption is already banned in some cases in the uk afaik. Hence apple dropping some cloud services

Yup! And now we are facing the problems many sys admins face every day all over the world: certificate expirations!
Though instead of https(ssl) certificate of a server expiring, its the certificate used to validate what secure boot boots.
Thats what the article is about

A yes, the fun times of a baby haha. Enjoy! :p
Anyway, Secure boot itself was designed by the eufi consortium, which is a group of pc tech companies, to help make sure devices only boot what it can trust. Good on paper and in practice but…

back in circa 2011 microsoft had enforced any pc that wanted to be windows 8 certified ( and get the sticker ) to require secure boot to be enabled together with fastboot. All motherboards needed to have a tpm module with only the microsoft certificate in it. This meant that booting from a usb or cd was completely off the table and you could just not install linux, period.
And even if you did, the kernels or bootloaders were not signed so they would be refused by the bios/eufi.

This was a big thing back then, and canonical and redhat tried and found a few ways around it, and so did some individuals.

But afaik the linux foundation ( which microsoft is part of, funnily enough ) made some binaries that were signed and allowed linux to boot under secure boot, including usb/cd.
Iirc, during the linux installation the distro will add its certificate to the tpm so that kernels signed by the distro boot fine.

To this day, without those binaries from the foundation, it would be impossible to boot linux with secure boot and can still cause issues when dual booting and having bitlocker enabled for example. Bitlocker detects a changed boot state (by grub) and says fuck that, give me the recovery key or i aint decrypting this.

Here is a google search if you want dig deeper, it should all be from circa 2011-2012 :
https://www.google.com/?q=windows+8+oem+to+disable+linux

A quick way to know is if youre running custom build kernel, or use mainline on ubuntu based systems, youre not using secure boot.
Those kernels are generally not signed and the cert is not added to the tpm to allow it. Youd have to have gone out of your way to do it, in which youd know secure boot was enabled :p

With? How it could effect us?

It might. It depends on a lot of stuff.
Microsoft was heavily involved in the making of uefi and secure boot but had heavy resistance from canonical as the early drafts of secure boot would not allow os’ to add signing keys to the tpm so a machine would only be able to boot windows.

Thankfully canonical won that debate :')

Source? Hitler was a propaganda writer himself…

To add to this, this is how llm sessions ‘get around’ the experience issue: with every query/command/whatever the whole context and passed conversation is sent to it to be reprocessed. This is why in long sessions it takes longer and longer to generate a new response and why it will forget everything it ‘learned’ from your session when starting a new one

Except all problems of a windows system werent on win7. Bloat? Minimal, was mostly the theme that was heavy but could be disabled. Forced updates? Didnt exist yet. Hardware requirements? A running pc. Half assed new ui? Didnt exist yet. Confusing configs that were all over the place? Nope, started in win8 and 10. Software comparability? 90% hell yes.

Win7 was a polished vista, with loads of bloat removed, performance improvements and 1000% more stable.
Win8 started screwing with shit and moving stuff partly and it went downhill from there.

And im also comparing it to os’ of the time. Clearly with todays tech id pick a linux over win7 anyday, but in those days win7 was king

Tbf, win7 was the best os i ever used. Only to be royally fucked by win8, win10 and win11. Oh how it has fallen…

Soooo… Regular gut biome already does this? Or are they talking about the e.coli that gives you the shits and food poisoning? Cause if its the latter, yes it will clean you quickly… Together will all liquids in your digestive system

Interesting writeup with some interesting techniques. I should read these some more

Same. I agree that people are too stupid to know what apps they should use. But that also includes those using some of apples closed down, limited apps and features haha

And diablo 1 has devilution ( or whatever the name was ), which is cross platform and works fiiiine

Wait, that works now? Ive seen the project few years ago but it wasnt good enough then. Awesome! I have to build that at home ^^

Some.of them are still locked up too, no?

Even today i find it important as the knowledge of how things work is vanishing and many just accept it works. But how will we build upon an idea if everyone forgets how it works?
There is also the idea within software that layers of bodgework upon one another creates overcomplex and unstable software. Thats everything but software you want to ship.
I understand you dont want all hobby work to reach professional levels, specially if youre trying something new! Thats ok!

Its just once you reach a certain level things have to change to make it not suck, dont build on that :')
Also one of the reasons i dont like retroarch.
But i will accept they fill a need that is very much wanted and needed by people and there isnt really anything like it

I get that, but imo thats dangerous. I will admit i live for tech and i get the basics of it all but understanding it is imo important when changing such settings because it can create other issues too.

But maybe im not the correct person to remark on this because i have a distaste for retroarch :p