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Or in my country: most ads are in only one of the main official languages but not the one in my region so it's wasteful for them.

Netflix and chili

It allows Windows to create and store cryptographic keys and validate OS and firmware components haven't been tampered with.

Like corporations would pass on literally tens of billions of dollars (yearly) just because they are big.

Unless Apple had it's own competing search service they have no reason to pass on that much money unless it becomes a huge liability.

Or not quite half a Twitter (pre-Musk).

Space stations cost less than what some "send a short message" platform does... insanity.

Botnets and malware rejoice!

I second MBR2GPT. With a guide it's quite straightforward to migrate from BIOS to EUFI but probably too scary for the average user.

It's not arbitrary. Securing an OS today is a huge challenge and Microsoft wants to leverage this tech to facilitate this. New hardware supports it, a lot of older hardware supports it and they strongly encourage this as the new standard.

Yes it means some people won't update without workarounds but they are setting a standard moving forward and for supported hardware, they were quite aggressive with the upgrade (I had to make sure the TPM was disabled in BIOS on a machine I didn't wish to upgrade early on).

Strange about your motherboard. I have an older one and just had to enable it via BIOS. I've heard some support it as an add-on module.

But it wasn't always that way. Creators had to survive multiple crises as Youtube made sudden changes that impacted their livelihoods.

Those that survived rely on merch, patronage platforms, paid promotions, and promoting their content on other paid platforms.

The one with a rocket program. Oh wait...

But replacing Youtube is sadly much harder.

I bet we'll just get better ad blockers.