Microsoft Is Rethinking Windows 11 Minimum Requirement For These Popular AMD And Intel CPUs

hothareware ^ | June 28, 2021 | Brandon Hill

[wastedyears]

I will continue to use Windoze 7 until everything I use no longer works.

[daniel1212]

"'Huge red flag’: Medical researchers bury data showing 82% miscarriage rate in vaccinated women 6/30/2021, 1:03:53 PM · by aMorePerfectUnion · 58 replies https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/huge-red-flag-medical-researchers-bury-data-showing-82-miscarriage-rate-in-vaccinated-women?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard ^ WALTHAM, Massachusetts, June 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A medical journal discovered that 82% of women who took an mRNA vaccine in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy had a miscarriage — and then it then buried the data."

Actually I think W/10 can be as fast as W/7, and a learned user finds out how to turn bloat off - which good freeware can do - including Cortana. The main slowdown is the Internet, in which many sites do as you described. A site such as Gateway Pundit can make 200 network requests the first 30 secs or so (under Firefox, go to a web site, hit F12 and then Network and then hit F5 and look for Requests). Freerepublic.com makes 3.

[daniel1212]

"Right now it is the most secure thing out there because of how it is designed with isolation between the system and user files."

Which is annoying for me, having to constantly type in my pword.

[daniel1212]

Oops! I had that evil excerpt in my clipboard instead of your comment, and failed to look at what was posted. Sorry.

[daniel1212]

Related: Windows 11 Causes TPM Shortages, Scalping: Here's Where to Buy. Windows 11 is Microsoft's first operating system to require a TPM, or Trusted Platform Module, sending frantic would-be upgraders to online retailers in search of hardware modules. Demand has exploded overnight as users try to nab a TPM as quickly as possible to ensure their PC is compatible with the new operating system, but the market is rough. In some cases, TPMs that sold for $15 are now as high as $100 through eBay. - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tpm-modules-unobtainable-expensive-windows-11

[daniel1212]

This is true: Microsoft Admits It Signed Rootkit Malware That Phones Home To Chinese Military

[Openurmind]

Lol, no problem, that is what it looked like to me and I caught it. About the password... I don’t mind that myself, I know it is working as it should. Want security then there will be some minor inconveniences. At least two or three antivirus programs that slow it down are not needed. :)

Thank you for the tip on how to find the requests!

You know I was thinking about you the other day. Wanted to throw something by you. The new Mint 20 comes with a simple video player called “Celluloid”. It does not copy, just plays. You can get it through the Ubuntu/Mint repository and I am sure they accept donations. Just wanted to share that with you. :)

https://celluloid-player.github.io/

[deoetdoctrinae]

Windows update check told me my 8 year dell laptop would not run Windows 11. Guess what downloaded on its own 2 days later, Windoes 11. I let it install, runs fine.

Wow. Color me surprised. I'll be wondering what it thinks of my 2014 Toshiba laptop, with an Intel Celeron N2840 2.16GHz processor.

[2111USMC]

and 64K of RAM was plenty.

[upchuck]

Hey, I’m with you. I figure the printer is the weak link. If it dies, trying to find a printer w/ Win 7 support will not be an easy task.

No spinning drives, everything is either SSD or NVMe so no worries there.

[minnesota_bound]

If you have a Apple computer you must be happy. If you have a Windows pc then here is something you can think of as you use Windows........ yuck! Bill Gates hosted nude pool parties https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hosted-nude-pool-202524601.html Bill Gates went to a Seattle all-nude strip club and invited them to come swim in his pool, according to biographer James Wallace. On more than one occasion, during nights he wasn't working his usual 17-hour days, he invited friends and dancers from local all-nude nightclubs to swim naked at his Laurelhurst bachelor pad overlooking Lake Washington, James Wallace, who wrote two biographies on Gates, said. "Gates himself rounded up the girls and brought them over there," Wallace said. "I don't know if he physically transported them or if he just told them where to show up."

[dayglored]

> TPMs that sold for $15 are now as high as $100 through eBay.

Not surprising. If Microsoft announced that the next release of Windows would require that the motherboard be coated in laminated chicken fat, there would be a run on chicken fat.

In this case, I suspect MS may have to back off the absolute requirement for TPM, at least for the initial release. If so they'll just add it back in later, after people have a chance to get used to the idea.

I'm not a fan of TPM, it looks to me too much like a design-by-committee with everything including the kitchen sink thrown in to please somebody. It's fairly complex, and that leads to insecurities that will be hard to address in the hardware implementation. Who would want to download a firmware update for their TPM? Will it brick the machine? And whom do you trust?

[minnesota_bound]

#5 It takes a lot of power to spy on you : )

[daniel1212]

"I'm not a fan of TPM, it looks to me too much like a design-by-committee with everything including the kitchen sink thrown in to please somebody. It's fairly complex, and that leads to insecurities that will be hard to address in the hardware implementation. Who would want to download a firmware update for their TPM? Will it brick the machine? And whom do you trust?"

Well, WP informs.,

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) was conceived by a computer industry consortium called Trusted Computing Group (TCG)...TCG has faced resistance to the deployment of this technology in some areas, where some authors see possible uses not specifically related to Trusted Computing, which may raise privacy concerns. The concerns include the abuse of remote validation of software (where the manufacturer‍—‌and not the user who owns the computer system‍—‌decides what software is allowed to run) and possible ways to follow actions taken by the user being recorded in a database, in a manner that is completely undetectable to the user.[48]

The TrueCrypt disk encryption utility does not support TPM. The original TrueCrypt developers were of the opinion that the exclusive purpose of the TPM is "to protect against attacks that require the attacker to have administrator privileges, or physical access to the computer". The attacker who has physical or administrative access to a computer can circumvent TPM, e.g., by installing a hardware keystroke logger, by resetting TPM, or by capturing memory contents and retrieving TPM-issued keys. As such, the condemning text goes so far as to claim that TPM is entirely redundant.[49]

Concerning the manufacturer‍—‌and not the user who owns the computer system‍ but not the OS license—‌deciding what software is allowed to run) and possible ways to follow actions taken by the user being recorded in a database, in a manner that is completely undetectable to the user, we can surmise how China would use this. And in the West we may want to consider how this can also be employed in the future by the cancel culture whose trend is to label a conservative a domestic type terrorist and thus to promote the censoring of such, and which is increasingly implemented.

One potentially meaning could be that a conservative user is judged to violate the terms of their MS license by posting conservative thought like as if one was using it to promote porn. Which of course evil Hollywood does, but they get a pass. Presently, the Microsoft Services Agreement states under "Code of Conduct ," "iv. Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material...offensive language.. and vii. Don’t engage in activity that is harmful to you, the Services or others...communicating hate speech... which could come to include the use of any term (wrongly) deemed racist or homophobic. And, "b. Enforcement. If you violate these Terms, we may stop providing Services to you or we may close your Microsoft account."

Of course, what constitutes such violations is in the eye of the MS beholder, and while the OS itself is not listed under the multitude of applicable services they do include Microsoft account, which MS wants you to be part of to use W/10 (if not yet actually required). But in any case, with the censorious trend of the Left then we could surmise how TPM could be used to lock up a device which is judged to be a violator of such terms.

And likewise as I posted in 2018,

Verizon's ToS for residential customers states, in part,

General Policy: Verizon reserves the sole discretion to deny or restrict your Service, or immediately to suspend or terminate your Service, if the use of your Service by you or anyone using it, in our sole discretion, violates the Agreement or other Verizon policies, is objectionable or unlawful...

use the service in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination .. in a manner that.. espouses, promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or racism;

The Comcast Cloud Solutions Terms of Service (for businesses) states, in part,

BY USING THE CLOUD SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE YOU AGREE NOT TO post, upload, or distribute any User Submission (as defined in Section 8 below) or other content that is defamatory....inaccurate... or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive,...threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

The broad ambiguous terms allows them broad subjective discretion to judge a party as guilty of non-PC speech, and the more radical liberals would love to see such be used to silence those who oppose them, and it is these liberals that are gaining the ascendancy.

That said, as simply malicious hackers increase in sophistication, or just to keep up with OS improvements, I might will enable TMP in this MSI B450 pro mobo with a Ryzen 3 3200G cpu. Maybe.

[daniel1212]

"You know I was thinking about you the other day. Wanted to throw something by you. The new Mint 20 comes with a simple video player called “Celluloid”. It does not copy, just plays. You can get it through the Ubuntu/Mint repository and I am sure they accept donations. Just wanted to share that with you. :)"

If it does not copy, just plays then how it is any different from a streaming service or VLC player for Linux and Windows? I think Jet audio for Windows to be the best free audio-video player for Ripping, Conversion, Recording and burning (but who does the latter now?). But the cloudy legal issues for playing restricted formats remain.

[Openurmind]

It is just a Linux utility to play DVDs and CDs without copy capabilities. While it will play downloaded video and sound files, Or self made content, I would think that a little self policing about where you source those would be on you to do or not do with protected content?

I am having trouble exactly understanding the full issue I guess. Every car will allow you to drive intoxicated. But does this mean you should never get a car because it will? Or just use a car with moral self responsibly? It is just a universal tool. How you use that tool is up to you right?

[daniel1212]

" It is just a Linux utility to play DVDs and CDs without copy capabilities. While it will play downloaded video and sound files, Or self made content, I would think that a little self policing about where you source those would be on you to do or not do with protected content? I am having trouble exactly understanding the full issue I guess. Every car will allow you to drive intoxicated. But does this mean you should never get a car because it will? Or just use a car with moral self responsibly? It is just a universal tool. How you use that tool is up to you right? "

As far as i understand it, on the defensible side software patents are about trying to ensure that those who write code, and labor to make sure it works, and those who produce it, get paid for their labor. And thus the ability to even decode a DVD is licensed in that interest. Otherwise potentially one could write and or play and or produce a song and and sell one copy, only to see it uploaded for all the world to receive for free. While I do not support Christian ministries criminalizing the distribution of free, attributed, material yet the laborer is worthy of his pay. (cf. Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:18) And thank God for the good of both, yet far more evil is protected, while works that are over 70 years after the death of the copyright holder are public domain, unless somehow bought up by another.

A main issue as regards music and videos in the interest of the above is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMA) which makes it illegal to bypass any technology, such as digital rights management software, meant to protect copyrighted material. Using or selling technology that allows access to material in a way that violates copyright is also illegal." - https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/the-digital-millennium-copyright-act-explained

And from Fedora: What is a software patent? A patent is a set of exclusionary rights granted by a government to a patent holder for a limited period of time, usually 20 years from the earliest effective filing date of the patent application. These monopoly rights are granted to patent applicants in exchange for their disclosure of the invention claimed by the patent. Once a patent is granted in a given country, the patent holder may exclude someone from making, using, selling or importing embodiments of the claimed invention in that country. Software patents are different from copyright or trademarks despite being lumped together with them under the collective term Intellectual Property.

A codec is a set of methods to encode and decode video or audio information into a data stream. In the case of codecs like MP3 or WMV, the company or companies associated with developing the format are also involved in asserting (or restrictively licensing) patents that purportedly cover the format; we refer to such codecs as "patent encumbered". Other codecs, such as WebM, Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis, Dirac, and FLAC, are made available by their developers without asserting patents on their implementations; we refer to such codecs as "patent unencumbered". Fedora includes comprehensive support for open, patent-unencumbered codecs but is unable to include support for the patent encumbered ones.

Patent licenses usually require the licensee to pay royalties based on the number of users. Since Fedora is free and open source software, the effective number of users is essentially unrestricted. Patent holders are generally unwilling to give a blanket patent license for unlimited use; moreover, the royalty payments would be too high for it to be practical for the Fedora Project, or its sponsors, to pay them. Proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows include the costs of third-party patent licenses paid by Microsoft in the pricing of the product as sold to end users. Fedora is not sold commercially, so there is no way to recoup these substantial expenses.

Even if funds were available to do so, such royalty-bearing patent licenses would have to be compatible with the free/open source software licenses governing the software covered by the patent license. In practice this is usually challenging. For example, the most widely-used FOSS licenses (GPL and LGPL) place constraints on the ability of distributors to distribute software under benefit of third-party patent licenses. Even if the software in question is placed under some other license, distributing such software under benefit of a patent license may make the software effectively non-free and thus incompatible with Fedora legal policies.

. For every copy of Microsoft Windows that you buy, or every DVD player that is sold, a portion of that cost goes directly to pay patent licenses; in fact, for DVD players, it can be over a quarter of the final cost . And, since that patent license applies to every copy in use, it's one of the reasons why you are not allowed to freely copy and redistribute software such as Microsoft Windows (although, to be sure, even if software patents did not exist, Microsoft would be unlikely to make Windows free software).

Fedora, however, has a public promise to always be freely redistributable by anyone. That is why Fedora cannot include support for patented media formats - it would break this redistribution promise. This means that, out of the box, you can't directly play media files such as Windows Media, MPEG-4 video, or MP3 audio. Fedora supports open media formats such as WebM or Ogg Vorbis and Theora , which are freely implementable and usable by anyone without a patent license.

Note that Fluendo offers a MP3 plugin for the Gstreamer multimedia framework (used by Totem, Rhythmbox and other multimedia applications) for free and other codecs and DVD player for a price that includes patent licenses. Fedora does not include or endorse these options but you can choose to use them with Fedora if you want to. - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents

As for File types supported by Windows Media Player,

Windows Media formats (.asf, .wma, .wmv, .wm) Windows Media Metafiles (.asx, .wax, .wvx, .wmx, wpl) Microsoft Digital Video Recording (.dvr-ms) Windows Media Download Package (.wmd) Audio Visual Interleave (.avi) Moving Pictures Experts Group (.mpg, .mpeg, .m1v, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .mpe, .m3u) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid, .midi, .rmi) Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aifc, .aiff) Sun Microsystems and NeXT (.au, .snd) Audio for Windows (.wav) CD Audio Track (.cda) Indeo Video Technology (.ivf) Windows Media Player Skins (.wmz, .wms) QuickTime Movie file (.mov) MP4 Audio file (.m4a) MP4 Video file (.mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .3g2, .3gp2, .3gp, .3gpp) Windows audio file (.aac, .adt, .adts) MPEG-2 TS Video file (.m2ts) Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)

Needed: Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 10

For Linux: https://fluendo.com/en/products/enterprise/fluendo-codec-pack/

And in general,

Patents arose as a legal mechanism designed to protect ‘intellectual capital’; that is, to protect the ideas of inventors from being used by others without permission and/or compensation. It was recognized early on that if one wished to provide incentive to innovators, that not all inventors had the means to implement, develop or even produce their invention at the time it was conceived. Without some kind of protection, inventors were reluctant to aggressively pursue their ideas, much less share them with others that might prefer stealing the idea to sharing the glory. And, as a general rule, people often scoff at new ideas until someone proves they are useful, which usually requires someone to invest significant resources such as time, money and effort. In theory, patents provide a valuable protection system for inventors pursuing development of their invention as well as a reward system for commercially valuable ideas. Modern-day patents, however, are not always of such a noble nature and software patents, a relatively new concept, are becoming more of an issue in bioinformatics (Lesavich, 2000). These patents may eventually wind up as landmines in the path of progress, as there is now clearly a divergence between theory and reality...

I would argue that software patents are not inherently evil, and that the potential for profit provides more motivation to pursue the realization of a powerful idea than academic considerations alone. Thus, software patents should not be abolished, but the system reformed. - https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/22/13/1543/194298

But then we have this,

Microsoft makes its 60,000 patents open source to help Linux 29 comments The company is joining the Open Invention Network to protect Linux By Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Oct 10, 2018,

Microsoft announced today that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents open source and available to OIN members, via ZDNet. - https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17959978/microsoft-makes-its-60000-patents-open-source-to-help-linux

Hope this helps. http://peacebyjesus.net

[Openurmind]

Thank you... I did not mean to make you invest so much time on that. Appreciate it very much.

[daniel1212]

"Thank you... I did not mean to make you invest so much time on that. Appreciate it very much."

It is educational and of much we are much ignorant, while Fluendo seems to be a rather secretive seller as I cannot find the price for its Codec Pack, which is just out of curiosity.

[The Great RJ]

At least my old desktop is a homemade machine and is on about my fourth rebuild. About time I upgrade my processor and motherboard again.