Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s ‘stupid’ fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux::undefined
The treacherous platform module has always been malware
It’s not just for that. It’s useful also for allowing storing your data safely. For example to keep fingerprints safe or other similar information.
If it was for that, it’d be locked with my keys, not some megacorp’s. The concept of treacherous computing is to let the corpos trust your computer to betray you for their profits.
Glad to see Linus giving this more visibility. There was a huge forum thread on the LTT Forums about users with this issue when Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would require TPM. AMD has attempted to fix it and the fixes have been completely ineffective on my system (B450 chipset using both a Ryzen 3700X and a 5800X).
On the plus side, I don’t get Windows reminding me to upgrade to 11 on my desktop because it thinks it is incompatible!
Linus Torvalds Tips has a forum‽
I remember 5 years ago when Linus said he would work to show more restraint in swearing out vendors… and it’s just hit me how well that worked. He didn’t use a single swear word–in English or Finnish–and kept his negative sentiment focused on the implementation, rather than the people who did it, or their intelligence.
I still agree with his sentiment towards Nvidia.
