On Sat, 2021-07-03 at 23:09 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2021-07-03 5:14 p.m., mcgarrett wrote:
> > 
> > > On July 3, 2021 at 7:55 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 19:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
> > > mcgarrett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What is a TPM, and does it come with the win 11 package, or
> > > > must it be obrained elsewhere?
> > > 
> > > It is a piece of hardware that either comes with your motherboard
> > > if it is new enough, or you have to add (if it has a header to
> > > allow adding) or you can't get at all without buying a new
> > > computer.
> > > 
> > > Apparently all the add-in modules for motherboards which were
> > > around $15 before Microsoft announced the requirement are all
> > > around $150 now on ebay and out of stock everywhere else :-).
> > 
> > I'm glad I don't need Windows for anything! If the upgrade turns
> > out to be free, I'll put it on my almost new machine, IF it has the
> > TPM. (How would I know?_  ==doug
> 
> Anything made in the last few years should have one.  If you're
> running 
> Linux, you can check with "ls /dev/tpm*" or "journalctl | grep -i
> tpm".

My mobo is about 8 years old, so I don't have the hardware, however
QEMU/KVM apparently emulates it well enough to fool Windows.

Which as I said earlier, makes the whole thing ridiculous.

poc
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