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I was planning on trying the open beta for Battlefield 6 next week but you need to enable Secure Boot. I heard mixed reviews about that; some say it is fine while other say it'll open your computer down to the lowest level, so I don't know what to think. Also, Battlefield 2042 now also require Secure Boot.

I'll keep looking into it but if some of you have any knowledge about it, I'll be happy to hear your thoughts.

I was planning on trying the open beta for Battlefield 6 next week but you need to enable Secure Boot. I heard mixed reviews about that; some say it is fine while other say it'll open your computer down to the lowest level, so I don't know what to think. Also, Battlefield 2042 now also require Secure Boot. I'll keep looking into it but if some of you have any knowledge about it, I'll be happy to hear your thoughts.

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[–] • 4 pts (edited )

Secure Boot (Palladium) is bad. It is irreversible once enabled and restricts your computer so that it can only boot an approved operating system. This is a slide of the Overton window to the eventuality whereby you will only be able to run what the Government allows, which will only do what the officially-sanctioned vendor (Microsoft) allows you to do. Free operating systems (as in Freedom) which facilitate free computing will be illegal.

If you want to be complicit and allow this transition by your cooperation for the sake of a mindless game you should not be on this site.

Reject this vendor and tell them to go f*** themselves.

[–] • 4 pts

If you want to be complicit and allow this transition by your cooperation for the sake of a mindless game you should not be on this site.

That's why I asked around.

Reject this vendor and tell them to go f*** themselves.

I guess I have to.

[–] • 3 pts

Greed is the ultimate motivation. I'm not sure what the game manufacturer's stated rationale is, whether to deter cheating or piracy, safeguard in-game purchases, or whatever, but the upshot is that your identity would be conclusively bound to a locked box. This would give them enhanced legal standing if someone objected to something you said in a chat or online and you are classified as a domestic threat. I can also see you having to go back to the vendor to buy the game again or pay a premium for the privilege of moving something you already bought to a new computer when the time comes around for upgrade.

Tell them to get bent and get real. It's a game.

[–] • 2 pts

What they say it is for, and what they do with it may be two different things. Like those new laws where you have to identify yourself to see some content "to protect the kids"; but we know it is total BS. I have other games to play; they're not getting my money this time.