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by marcosdumay 1817 days ago
The main point (and only differential) of a TPM is protecting secrets against the person with physical possession of the device.

About every time something like this is placed on a consumers product, it is to exploit the consumer some way, so, no it's just bad.

There is the very rare exception of it being a product intended for the owner to lend it to other people, and the very common exception of it being disabled by default, but being cheaper to include on every product than just the business ones. But well, Windows 11 Home edition computers are neither of those.