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  • Damn, never seen that before. Is it a windows 11 thing? It’s looking more and more like I’ll have to move to linux on my desktop, I guess.

    Edit: hard to find a source for the image; I assume if it was real there’d be a lot more reports of this online but I’m not seeing those.

    • basic research tells me it's a... something integrated in the PC processor. AMD. It's fairly new and started to be released only in some models last year. All this explains why I haven't heard about it until now. Agreed this adds pressure to take on linux

      • Microsoft Pluton is hardware level SoC "zero trust" security that can be baked into the CPU. It's an optional implementation of TPM for windows 11, basically, that's much more invasive and harder to bypass when enabled. I'm not sure how or why it would involve itself in media playback though, since it's capabilities seem to be focused around executable security and cryptographic OS/driver verification. So this screenshot is likely fake... for now.

        It should be pretty transparent to avoid in the open market. It looks much more geared towards the enterprise space where you want machines to be locked down like this, but I'm sure it'll creep into the consumer space once Microsoft decides it's mandatory.

        • Microsoft: Pay us to license your program on our OS

          Small-time developer: I haven't even earned from this program and you want me to pay?

        • I still have a 8700K and haven't really had the need to upgrade in a while. I'll never buy a processor with something like this in it. If Microsoft forces it in new CPUs, I'm pretty sure I can make it the rest of my life with current hardware.

          • Yeah, me too. Silicon advances have gotten a lot more incremental and are in a point where if you buy high end current generation, you'll probably have acceptable performance for 10 years or more. The Ryzen 7900x/7900xtx rig I'm building right this second I figure will last me at least 5 or 6 years without any upgrades, even when playing modern top of the line games.

            Definitely not like it used to be, where you could upgrade every two years and double your computer's performance to an insane degree.

    • No, nothing like that in win 11

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