@t3n nicht wirklich ungewiss:

#BestCase: Leute lassen sich nicht von #Microsoft verarschen, werweigern sivh #CensorBoot und schauen uaf https://endof10.org nach Alternativen.

Wacheinlichstes Szenario: Tausende Tonnen 100% vermeidbarer #eWaste wird generiert aber die allermeisten System kommen billig in den Gebrauchtmarkt.

#WorstCase: Tausende Tonnen 100% vermeidbarer #eWaste wird generiert!

@StarkRG I agree and I do the same.

• It's just gotten so bad that I know companies are literally willing to pay #IdiotTax and trash perfectly fine hardware because #Govware like #Windows11 can't do #CensorBoot and/or 8 GB RAM are not enough if you want to use more than 2 messengers at the time and still have like a ticketing system, wiki, softphone and eMail client open (aka. #TechSupport)…

@LaF0rge @sysmocom granted, I do trust the GSMA more than Beijing, but that's more due to the fact that conflicting desires if GSMA members tend to be harder to steer.

• Similarly GAFAMs conflicting ideas prevented them from enshittifying Linux.

Still, I think that end users and device integrators should have full control over the certificates and root of trust, including the ability to add alternative Root-CAs and even removing GSMA's Root-CA (similar to how "Secure Boot" should've been done instead of #CensorBoot!)

• Whether it would be a wise decision to yeet the GSMA cert is a different story, but given what I know in terms of "security" I'd certainly not trust #Bundesdruckerei and it's subsidiaries to be competent.

Certainly being able to exercise full control would make a lot of #osmocom's development easier.

@franky @ulrichkelber @kontrollierterWahnwitz es heißt #CensorBoot, denn #HoldenKeyBoot macht "#SecureBoot" unfixable unsicher!

@mrgrumpymonkey it is.

One can repartition Windows installations on the fly whilst running (and even then there are tools like #Wubi that made it easy to setup #dualboot #Linux & #Windows.

• ISOLINUX does allow for "load image into RAM and boot" setups. I literally use that on @OS1337 because no system that can boot it will have > 16 MB RAM anyway ( 8 MB is the hard limit for bare linux kernel) so merely making Windows' bootloader to chainload #isolinux to load that image in RAM and yeet it isn't out of the question.

I just have neither a #Windows machine nor time and spoons to make such a tool, much less to basically create even said #ProofOfConcept "#Malware"…

• But thanks to #GoldenKeyBoot, #CensorBoot is unfixably insecure!

@mrgrumpymonkey better even if you can build a #malware that automagically installs #Linux over a #CensorBoot'ed #Windows11!

@Cheatha nodds in agreement

Keep the envoirment safe, ditch #CensorBoot & #Windows11!

https://enof10.org

@itsfoss nodds in agreement the amount of #eWaste #Microsoft creates is s absurd, it'll make hee #EU converting to #IEC60906_1 look like envoirmentally responsible by comparison.

• OFC @EUCommission didn't do that citing 700.000t of #eWaste as argument against it.

I wounder how many millions of PCs get replaced for no good reason because Microsofts's new #Govware requires #CensorBoot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1

@jmaris @kde I think getting rid of #Windows is the correct approach.

• #EndOf10 should also mark the end of #Windows11 and a ban of #Microsoft for creating thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste due to #CensorBoot.

@eri worse even is the #EoL of #Winfows10 and #Microsoft mandating #CensorBoot for #Windows11, thus generating.thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste in return!

@ai6yr and guess what: #Microsoft caused this issue by mandating #CensorBoot via #TPM 2.0 for no valid reason.

• This is an #EnvoirmentalCrime and they should be forced to undo the harm caused!

@misty IMHO #CensorBoot & #Windows11 should be illegal for creating thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste.

@leguinian_utopia consider booting into an external SSD with @ubuntu preinstalled...

• That should work even on #CensorBoot machines...

@barefootstache You could try #Ventoy which supports #CensorBoot...

• That way you can just drag & drop ISO files.

Also consider enabling #CSM / #BIOS mode if possible...

@Eyedust @topher exactly that is my main gripe.

The reason the #EU refused to standardize upon IEC 60906-1 was because they expected it to generate 700.000t of 100% avoidable #eWaste (or ~ 1,4 kg per EU citizen).

• IDK about you, but even if people were to only throw out mainboards due to #CensorBoot (which noone does!) we'd easily see way more eWaste due to #Windows11 in the EU alone, yet @EUCommission and @Bundesregierung don't even bat an eye.

And that really infuriates me like this:

@topher the problem is the #Enshittifiaction and #Enfattening of #Websites and #Applications!

Seriously, I think that #Microsoft should be sued into insolvency for the way they create 100% avoidable #eWaste with #CensorBoot and #Windows11 to the point that if I didn't have my current job, I'd basically collect all the old machines from companies that are stupid enough to use #Windows [and they'll likely give them away for free minus SSDs / HDDs instead of paying €5+ for #recycling], shove some #Linux on [i.e. #RaspberryPiOS, #BunsenLabsLinux or #UbuntuLTS] and sell those off as used electronics for a good profit.