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Neither Secure Boot nor TPM were ever actually about security and neither meaningfully improves security. They are DRM features that exist solely to ensure you can never truly own the things you buy.
Um, TPMs for sure provide meaningful security. Maybe their use is implemented poorly a lot of the time, AND they can be abused to hold control over hardware you've purchased, but low level exploits are for sure a thing and TPMs and other dedicated hardware security modules (for enterprise) most definitely serve a purpose.
They're a response to the ever evolving advancement of cyber exploits. Don't knock them on principle, take affront to when they're used poorly.
How is TPM involved in making sure you don't own things? It certainly improves security (other than the poorly made ones at least)
There's the truth. Thank you.
Sticking to linux and indie games forever then !