That's very cool, and I'm happy to be wrong (or at least partially informed). I also didn't know that Germany was such an important player in silicon, but it just goes to show how important globalization is!
If it's any consolation, I have an AMD processor with an fTPM (their version of TPM on the CPU), and I didn't have any issues upgrading to Win 11 Pro. BitLocker is optional, so if you don't plan to encrypt your drive, I wouldn't worry about it.
Most likely, they're just covering their asses in the event somebody upgrades their hardware and gets locked out of their boot drive.
Am I sure? No, but I have a recollection of reading that the sand in Taiwan has a higher silicon content and is better suited to making wafers. You can make silicon from just about any dirt on earth, since it's virtually everywhere, but when you want to make a bunch for manufacturing, it's more effective to choose an abundant source as your starting point.
The reason TSMC is in Taiwan in the first place is their sand is particularly good for making silicon wafers. You can do it with almost any soil, but Taiwan is particularly well-suited to the task.
Burning everything to the ground and abandoning the island is tantamount to just giving China exactly what they want.
The whole point of the TPM is that the encryption keys are securely stored on the device. There's nowhere you can "get them," and keys are set automatically.
What it looks like it's saying is that if you decide to use the optional BitLocker, the encryption keys will be stored in the TPM. If you were to replace your motherboard (or the TPM board, if it's a separate hardware device), you would only be able to recover your Windows drive if you had "the recovery key."
I've never bothered with BitLocker, but I would suspect that they'll generate a recovery key for you in the event you need to decrypt your device manually later on.
If the stranglehold billionaires have on the world begins to diminish, I'll start to suspect it's been on purpose. Until then, they're just fucking idiots who made worthless trash.
I don't know what other data they have, but Mindstate's Phase 1 trial size was only 47, and how effective it was wasn't actually documented in the article (other than vague "it was safe and well-tolerated" language). It's obviously not poison, but whether it actually treated anything is still an open question, and how effective it will be for people in general is another; they're aiming for the FDA to approve the drug on it's own, and just producing a neuroplastic mental state may not be enough without guided therapy.
I sincerely hope for a drug that's effective at treating various mental disorders, but the funding on this is practically the "who's who" of Conservative/billionaire ghouls:
Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart, Coinbase, and Twitch, Mindstate has built a set of AI models that connect biochemical data from different psychactive drugs to more than 70,000 “trip reports” compiled from a variety of sources—from official clinical trial datasets and drug forums to social media, Reddit, and even the dark web.
Behold the new faces of Big Pharma. These aren't the sort to do things for the benefit of humanity. It might turn out that this is exactly what is promised on the tin, but I will be surprised if this is not gated by a steep price tag.
I'm not going to look at the Xitter thread, because fuck fascists, and fuck Elon. If you have other non-fashy sources, I'd be happy to look at them. Real research has papers, not Xitter threads, and Dillan DiNardo is a venture capitalist with a company trying to develop and sell designer drugs. Not exactly an unbiased source.
For the other links, the first is showing the antianxiety potential of the substance DOI and how scientists were able to document the mechanisms of its effects better (which leads to the possibility of targeted drugs). The second is about a new drug, dubbed JRT, that is able to harness neuroplastic effects without hallucinogenic ones; they're targeting schizophrenia, which is good news for anyone that suffers.
Maybe the wealthy will be able to pay for their own custom molecules, but I am skeptical that bespoke psychedelics are on the horizon (at least for average people).
Frustrating that this is the second time in the same year.