Ah, the grand circle of enshittification.

You’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders!

TPM was known to be a DRM Trojan horse in 2004. Then everyone forgot about that fact.

Sure, pushing Linux is just a new angle, but don’t think for a second that TPM has any purpose other than making your own computer trust a cabal of corporations over you, the owner. And if there is a critical mass of TPM standardized hardware, such that a “trusted” environment is the standard, it will lock you out of major use cases on all “untrusted” systems, including Linux.

And that deserves a lot of outrage.

Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let’s just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!