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by jhoelzel 1200 days ago
You mean the thousands of computers that have to be thrown away to use windows 11 are using it for profit and not security??

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Not yet. You can still disable secure boot and install Linux. At some point in the future, it may become the same as phones. Locked bootloader/UEFI and only able to boot Windows.
While true, this is going to be a tough topic to bring up at the clients office.

So far I am contemplating building a throne from them.

Can you please elaborate what does it mean to be the same as phones? I guess you meant the sandbox env?
I think what he was saying is that, by locking down the bootloader, we could see devices that are locked to windows or apple forever. Just like iphones are