What makes you think people want to be unchained? There's this fantasy that exists in the minds of Slashdot that people only use Windows because they are forced to. Go ahead install Linux on random people's machine. We'll direct support calls to you when they ask why they can't install the Xbox store, or why their OneDrive sync no longer works.

TPM is under control of the user. It's on your machine.

Yes. That much is obvious.

Yeah MS is known for shady stuff like storing credentials for decrypting drives on an unencrypted partition. Oh wait, that's precisely what TPM is supposed to solve. Where were you when hardware security was implemented by OSX, Android, iPhone, and Linux (though the last one doesn't make it mandatory)? You spend so much time complaining about lack of trust in MS security, and now you're complaining about them implementing an industry standard hardware security measure?

*brain explodes*.

Define "works fine". From what I can see core features of Windows 11 fail without TPM, and bonus points your local system credentials are stored locally on your drive, on a drive that can't be encrypted.

It works fine as much as a car which doesn't have functioning locks on it "works fine". Slashdot used to criticise Microsoft for lax security, and now they are criticising them for mandating hardware security measures despite being the last popular OS to do so.

Pick a lane mate.

The devices in question have been standard for about 8 years now. Microsoft didn't make this a standard, they stopped supporting systems which didn't offer modern standard hardware.

Microsoft does not do a CPU model number check against a database. They do a check for specific hardware features and no CPU list is managed by the hardware compatibility tool. Your co-worker's CPU doesn't meet some requirement most probably because the CPU is either lacking a feature, or more likely it's disabled (some Windows required features are disabled by default by motherboard default configuration.

The only instructions required by Windows 11 that don't exist in Windows 10 have been standard in CPUs since 2008 - Specifically SSE4.2 instruction set. It has nothing to do with instructions unless you're mad enough to try and run Windows 11 on a potato, it has to do with TPM2.0.

Superior in what way? The problem with statements like yours is that you will help someone who doesn't understand computers install it, and then they end up with basic problems as a result such as, where is the Microsoft Store, or why is the Xbox game bar not working, this online guide said windows+G brings up an overlay!

Citation required, given that Windows 11 is the same underlying system as Windows 10. If it runs on Windows 10 it runs on Windows 11. Heck even Windows 11's version number is 10.0.26100

At the end of which you will have achieved what? Windows 10 Pro, except with a dodgy non-legal license?

Or simply disabled? In the past 3 months I've helped about 5 people upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It was usually some combination of not knowing how to turn SecureBoot on to enable the upgrade (simple) or having to convert MBR to GPT partitions and switch the BIOS from Legacy to UEFI.

In all cases their machine said their hardware was not capable of running Windows 11. I wonder how many PC actually can't, and I wonder how many of them are in 3rd world countries after they were dumped by the westerners.

MI5's reason appears to have been to help stifle an investigation into police corruption, which could have looked bad for some important people.

Unfortunately they are known to have done this kind of work in other cases too. They aren't particularly good at it either.

Sounds like it's more likely an issue with the engines. Engine oil is getting into the cabin air, which is outside air that comes into the engine, gets heated, and a small amount of siphoned off to the cabin. The leak is in the engine somewhere.

There will be filters for that air, and it sounds like airlines have been pressuring Airbus to reduce the maintenance on them, which now and then means they fail to stop the vaporized oil getting through.

Simply increasing the maintenance should be enough to resolve the issue.

It'd probably illegal in the UK. That kind of constant monitoring would need a very strong justification.

Who has been arrested in the UK over saying there are only two sexes?

Linehan was arrested for a sustained campaign of harassment and doxing against a child.

Are you talking about the actions taken against people not showing sufficient sorrow for the death of Charlie Kirk? Very North Korean, if you ask me.

Libraries have quite good protections in some parts of Europe.

It legitimizes seizing foreign owned businesses, the very thing that Americans keep accusing China of doing.

As usual, Trump has been played like a cheap fiddle.

IA is in a bad place right now. Not enough staff, ancient and brittle code base that frequently breaks, very poor connectivity outside parts of the US, and of course huge legal problems due to a combination of bad decisions and apparently ignoring legal advice (if they ever took it).

It's unfortunately very difficult to build an archive like that, but it should be a priority. Located in Europe somewhere.

Except it is not a design flaw and has nothing to do with design flaws. It's to do with maintenance issues on engines which make the Airbus planes in question slightly worse than all others. The only aircraft which won't experience this is a 787 since it gets air in a fundamentally different way. There's nothing to change on existing planes, and not only will no one go bankrupt over this, it won't even move the share price.

What's that got to do with incidents getting worse in recent years?