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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] MotoAsh@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it can also do cryptographic operations on its own of a few sorts for 2.0, so it can in theory speed some things up via offloading some cryptography... but yea, not strictly necessary for a normal end user. They mostly just want a device fingerprint to track more easily.

[โ€“] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I completely missed the idea of fingerprinting. That'll be the most likely use.