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Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Drop requirements for TPM and secure boot then.

That shit is just Xbone Kinect all over again.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Desolder your tpm chip to prevent forced downgrade to win11

[–] anivia@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Disabling it in Bios is enough

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, you can do this? Neat.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Eventually, windows will just override it.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That seems much easier than installing Linux.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Or don't buy a machine with that bullshit.

Edit: I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. My comment is still valid. If the argument is "you can't, all the machines now include it," then it's fucked up. Like today's TVs which all of them are smart, and that's fucked up.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you've got a CPU from the last 6 years or so, you've probably already got one.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hence I will never get rid of my 2017 laptop that doesn't qualify for Windows 11. The day Windows 10 stops updating for it is the day I'll install Linux in it.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

x86 cpu.

There's no bullshit on Arm and RISC.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

ARM is entirely made out of bullshit. It's almost impossible to buy a ARM device that isn't boot locked to a particular OS.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

You can turn off those requirements a few ways. IIRC using Rufus to make the bootable USB can, or something like Windows X-Lite which absolutely strips away all the M$ bullshit, like edge, defender, telemetry, bloat, and ads.