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Your Computer no longer supports Windows
(social.re)
More importantly: I no longer support Microsoft
How were you able to rip out secure boot?
I just made sure to buy a motherboard that allows disabling secure boot in the BIOS.
There are ones that don't? That's scary
Microsoft seems to have deleted all their old blog posts around it (at least all the links to their responses 404 now), but...
In 2011, they were going to require it to be enabled for all products if they wanted to announce Windows 8 support.
After huge backlash, they changed it to allow motherboard companies to disable it for X years (since I can't find the original, I can't say the exact length of time)
But their original goal was for it to never be allowed to be disabled
Would've been nice for them, wouldn't it? Given they are also the authority for who gets those god damm keys.
Always the same with the corposcum.
Swap the two images or the texts and I feel like It'd be better.
It's wild to me that the only way to have a functioning computer nowadays is to exclusively use Libre software.
A computer, that fully saturates the CPU if you press the start menu button, is broken.
A computer, that refuses to start if the manufacturer doesn't want it to, is broken.
A computer, that is glued together, is broken.
A computer, that disables previous functionality and sells it back to you, is broken.
The world of Windows and macOS is wild. These are big things. How do people accept them?
People thought that Richard Stallman had a substance filled nightmare, but apparently it was precognition.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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