China has a GDP of $12.5 trillion.

“9 Linux Distros that don’t even pretend to work”

And then hardly anything will work, so whats the point ?

If your system doesn’t have a TPM chip, you can still emulate it in softtware, but then everything will run like molasses, so again basically poitnless.

Its to stop idiots downloading cat videos and infecting the system with ransomware.

if your sys admin keeps TPM on - and they would have to be nuts to turn it off - you’ll be opening an account.

Sure, but then pretty well nothing will work, so what’s the point ?

Well they only just dropped support for Win7 and that came out in 2009.

Sir, this is Lemmy.

“We’ve forgotten how to use computers - The hex keypad is sorely missed”

Remember (if you can) the classic drag-and-drop: You’d mouse over to a file or a folder, click to slide the icon to the trash, then release to drop it in.

Did anyone everr do that though ?

It overheats it.

The water in a microwave when boiled forms small pockets of gaseous water whose temperature is more than 100 deg C, so it basically cooks the guts out of the tea.

Those carve outs already exist for state classification laws.

Obscenity is not protected by the first amendment.