Post #1750871
2026-01-13 23:07 UTC
Our luck was that personal computers existed before phones. The fact computing is open is a miracle.
Microsoft would love to only sell computers with locked bootloaders, enforced DRM, locked down stores. Imagine having to jailbreak your desktop.
Replies (3)
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@Fetus@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 23:29
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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@wuffah@lemmy.world 2026-01-13 23:49
People call me paranoid, but after my dad’s MS Surface spontaneously encrypted itself and lost the recovery keys, my belief is that what you described is the goal they are working towards. Apple already does all of this along with client side scanning and MS is falling over itself to implement the same ecosystem.
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@kshade@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 20:56
That was a big concern when TPMs first started appearing. I'm glad that that didn't go the way it might've. Yet.