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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • It’s not just tpm 2.0 support, but simply Intel 8th gen or higher or Ryzen

    Intel 6th gen CPUs could totally support tpm 2.0 but they decided to cut them off because $$$

    There is no real technical reason, management wanted the line to go up so they had meetings and meetings with the engineering teams in order to find a somewhat reasonable excuse to send to the landfill millions and millions of perfectly usable computers








  • I wanted to encrypt against physical theft but then I realized that the server weighs 20kg and there’s more valuable and lighter stuff to steal. And a thief would never be able to mount the zfs array, they’ll just fence my $2000 server for $50 and someone else will sell it piece by piece on ebay. And between people who buys used drives online on ebay almost nobody is going to do a full surface scan of a 12tb drive in the hopes of finding valuable data.