Maki

Right, because UEFI is open sourced and can be checked by anyone. Oh, wait, no, that’s why Libreboot is a thing: https://libreboot.org/ I will agree that TrustedComputingGroup and the way they use TPM have a more open standard, but I still don’t trust some of the companies behind it. Especially Microsoft, who have completely lost the plot with recent Windows versions. There is definitely a reason to be wary of it, as cryptographer Ross Anderson is quoted here on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism Software Piracy is a direct answer to greedy publishers who burn out developers and force them to make crapware which they then force DRM on so people can’t play it even if they own the original release. Better people than me have written about how awful DRM is in games. See https://www.gog.com/blog/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-and-why-should-you-care/ or https://expertbeacon.com/why-is-drm-bad-for-gaming/ for exaples. DRM is bad for game preservation purposes or simply to allow someone to install and reinstall the game they own several times. Better people than me have written out about the various issues which DRM caused in the past, most notably safedisc and securom which were well-reported upon. It does not belong in gaming. I can explain a lot, and can attribute a lot to stupidity and greed on either side of the argument. It’s not FUD when it’s a slow crawl to further enshittification and overzealous identification and exclusion of individual users and systems while giving false reasons for why we should put up with it.

Ask yourself why TrustedComputing became a thing, why UEFI and TPM are required for newer Windows versions and what they actually do. And each new step they add something more restrictive to prevent your system running unidentified code. Ask why kernel-level DRM is employed as an anticheat measure. What other kernel-level DRM is on your system? Do you know? Do you care enough to stop using the products pushing it onto your system in the first place? We’re slowly but surely letting the dystopian futures we were warned about happen by not protesting every single time they lock some part of your life down “for reasons”.

Don’t worry, more people are on it than just Empress. You don’t have to lash out just because you don’t know how to find them. I will save you the trouble of reading my future comments.

Nothing in life is easy.

If you’re unhappy about the lack of crackers worth a damn, you could always learn to do it yourself.

No DRM exists which can’t be circumvented one way or another given enough time.

It’s absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.

You are either missing the point or are willfully obtuse.

Looks like an AI-generated article to me. That “vehicle” looks more like a baboon than a horse; just look at the butt.

Feed it SQL injections?

Oh, they must be the version of me without the inhibitions, then? Cool. Let’s go to town. >:-)

As a staunch Pale Moon user, Cloudflare is just being a bully and I circumvent their nonsense when I need to desperately use a particular site or just don’t go to that site anymore if I can do without.