Of course it's constructive. It's a declaration that it is feature comparable with Teams.

Are you seriously posting this on a story about fingerprinting of individual pieces of hardware? It's clear TPM isn't required for DRM. It's a device used for storage of secure keys, something that is entirely within your control. E.g. Microsoft has been tying Windows activation to hardware from back in the days before people even knew how to spell TPM.

Hell you're worried about someone "hiding information" in the TPM? Clear it. Windows gives you not one, not two, but three mechanisms to do so, either through the settings in security, or through the management console tpm.msc, or just opening PowerShell and running the command Clear-TPM and rebooting.

Why are you so afraid of something under your control?

The requirement is for secure boot and TPM to be enabled. You seem very proud of not enabling security settings on your device that in general help you regardless of using Valorant or not.

The hilarious part here is that the general Slashdot "wisdom" is that TPM can be used to flag and black list your device for whatever reason, ... as if that was ever required for software to do that.

It just once again goes to show that people will put a lot of effort into working against their own self interest.

If you ignore the world around you then you get to think everything is a hoax.
- Polarbears in the arctic region have had their extinction status updated and numbers are down.
- Penguins weren't endangered due to global warming, they aren't dependent on sea ice - too much faux news for you.
- Arctic summer sea ice is still lower than when satellite records began and continues to trend down.
- There's still some snow in the alps, and yet we have a large number of ski resorts going bust due to lack of snow, and there's now only a single year-round ski location left in the alps, again due to lack of snow.
- Mt Kilimanjaro has lost 80% of its glacier and snow cover over the past 100 years.
- No one said Florida would drown, they said it would flood more. Which it is, to a significant extent thanks to the average 8" sea level rise recorded there over the past 70 years.
- Even the dumbarse greens recognise the solution to the problem is not to invest in something that wouldn't even begin to have an effect for 30 years, and right up until that point contribute greatly to global warming. Building nukes is slow and intensely carbon emitting. The topic of nukes was one for the 90s, we should have been building them then, now they are a non solution pushed by people without a functioning brain.

- The reasonable conclusion is that the Greens are more intelligent than you. ... And I think that's probably the worst insult I've ever used on Slashdot *pats self on back*.

Before Microsoft bought Activision. Gaming as a service combined with a loss leader hardware never has high profit compared to revenues. But at several points the gaming division was raking in more revenues than the OS division, and that before they saddled the division with the cost of interfering with game production that is costing them dearly now. The xbox division has been continuously profitable since 2005 until covid.

Huh? Did they? I just opened the Macbook Air webpage and literally the first thing that is said on it, literally the first feature written about, in the first sentence at the top of a very VERY long scrolling page: "MacBook Air is remarkably light at just 1.23 kilos and only 11.3 mm thin."

By the way that's thinner than this HP laptop.

[Citation Required]. The only just announced this as a strategy a few months ago. At this point they haven't even released an insider build based on this strategy yet, so do you work for Microsoft with your knowledge?

By the way I just opened it and had a look. The weather app uses 500MB, or about half the amount of RAM as Chrome does with 2 open Slashdot tabs, and given the weather app consumes 0MB of RAM when it's not running, your point is quite irrelevant to OS RAM usage.

Literally anyone not running Windows 11.

AI could literally not be worse at war than the current DUI hire and the moron who hired him. We don't need Super Intelligence here. We don't need Artificial intelligence. In fact we could do with just 5 functioning interconnected neurons and a bunch of crayons at this point and it would be an upgrade to America's war strategy.

Get out of here with that nonsense. This is America. You're either with us, or against us. Republican or democrat. Blue or Red. Capitalist or Socialist (or Communist, no one knows the difference anyway). You're either hate the world's richest man, or lick his boots. You're either pro law enforcement or want to abolish the police entirely.

You're either for nuance or against nuance (which makes you a communist / opposing political ideology / do other things that aren't the same things I do!). /sarcasm.

Man I miss your kind of sensible discourse. There's way too little of it these days.

You're confusing the performance of a platform with the performance of a userbase. Any idiot can create an alternative to the "shit" reddit (hell tell Claude to magic one into existance). But, unless you convince other people to use it all you can do is sit around and talk with yourself. That's precisely what makes reddit the least shit of all options.

"Open source for me, but not for thee" is the antithesis of open source. There was never an expectation that someone can't make a profit of the source code, in fact it is explicitly permitted by most licenses. Your UID is high so maybe you lack your history of the computing world, but fuck whomever modded you insightful for this.

While I agree with the general availability to wide topics and the consistent approach, there is a downside to reddit that the old disjointed forum system didn't have: Demographics. Reddit has a clear demographic across virtually all subreddits. It's accessibility fosters an environment dominated more by the new people compared to experts. In the old days where you had to explicitly go out of your way to find a forum for your hobby, when signing up you were usually put into a group of fanatics and experts. It was often "toxic" to new users, which very much was a downside to entering a hobby, but it was the exact opposite for elevating it to the top level.

You see a lot of examples across many different hobbies in Reddit where someone new would ask a question, and get inundated with incorrect or sub-paar responses from people who are equally new. Reddit for all its accessibility has made it more difficult to sift out the gold from the rubbish.

That said I think the ideal world would be one where both reddit and dedicated forums co-exist. Each had their downsides, each had their upsides.

Clearly the incel rep of Slashdot has entered the chat.

Speak for your fucking self. The world is full of people who have no systemic issues preventing having babies. Some of us just aren't even remotely interested. Also not wanting children has nothing to do with sex unless you're in a place where birth control is unavailable.