*bricks your motherboard*

can somebody truly explain to me in what way is secureboot actually a helpful thing?
can't wrap my head around the fact that if you have access to the hardware, what does it matter that it's on or off

>>106230165
In theory it stops bootkit type stuff that latches onto the bootloader. Also stops the plebs from installing Linux easily. Of course, now the root kits just exploit vulns in the chip that handles secure boot, so they’re even harder to pick up and near;y impossible to get rid of

>>106230086 (OP)
wintroons willingly install a RAT on their hardware to play vidya games

>>106230086 (OP)
Begone, /v/ermin.

>>106230202
THIS.
I use windows btw

>>106230165
>secureboot
Your firmware has a store of keys (i.e. in a TPM) and checks the software being loaded at boot time (bootloader, OS kernel and drivers) against a database of trusted signatures, and will halt the boot process if anything fails to verify. It's rare but not impossible for malware to exploit its way into the boot environment. Of course in the case of anticheat it's about preventing intentional modifications to the OS during boot that make cheats harder to detect.

>>106230086 (OP)
Genuinely how are people bricking their motherboards by just turning SecureBoot on? UEFI BIOS are so idiot proof nowadays you have to actually go out of your way to try and fuck something up. Also, how isn't it enabled by default? My last two motherboards had it and the older one I have is from fuckin 2014.

>>106230194
>Also stops the plebs from installing Linux easily
Didn't the most recent Ubuntu make it trivially easy?

>>106230417
Depends. SecureBoot and Linux tend to be a bit rocky. From what I recall there are caveats to using it. SecureBoot was a Microsoft invention that was pushed out as a requirement for Windows 8, so getting Linux kernel and bootloader keys into the default key store has been an uphill battle, and could stop working at any time.

>>106230399
Probably they don't actually mean brick, just that windows fails to boot with it on likely due to UEFI/MBR incompatibility. Either that or a bug in their board's specific implementation of secure boot.

>>106230460
>SecureBoot was a Microsoft
Ah then I definitely believe in Microsoft's Linux company Canonical to do it

>>106230473
The other thing that happens is Windows has silently enabled BitLocker and when you reboot you find you’ve gotten locked out of your own PC.

>>106230086 (OP)
How shitty at computers do you have to be to not have efi bios turned on and secure boot? That shit literally works by default.

>>106230165
its crazy in that it literally does nothing to solve the cheater problem but instead it just puts more burden on the consumer.

>>106230417
It's easy to use secureboot with linux. It's a pain in the ass to do it the way that actually makes you secure (compiling your bootloader with your own keys that you have sole control over).

>>106230086 (OP)
wait... so when I went to play the beta on the second day and my pc froze (no blue screen, just froze), then after a few restarts just refused to post until I switched the ram sticks from A2 and B2 to A1 and B1... wasn't a coincidence?
I hope you're talking some bullshit about secure boot because if that's not it... grim

The game worked properly on my machine™. I didn't have one crash and I only saw some graphical glitches in the final match before they shut down the beta. Kinda surprisingly that a new game runs well and I can max out my monitors refresh rate without the game looking like a potato. The urge to preorder is rising.

*doesn't*
*OP being a lying ass nigga online*

>>106231052
that is easy with sbctl, but its a pain in the ass if you need kernel modules for gpu drivers or virtualbox

>>106230473
Why is /v/ retarded like that?

Not even able to play this game because I have entire graphics driver crashes on an RTX 3080. It's an EVGA too.

I have a sneaking suspicion it's a VRAM exhaustion issue, where the game or drivers aren't releasing unused assets from memory to load in new stuff. My 3080 is the yidded 10GB model from COVID.

The lower my vram usage in game, the longer I can play, but if I open programs that need vram in the background I will crash much sooner.

I disabled HAGS, clean installed with DDU, did the security exception for image hashes or w/e the fuck, DX11 and DX12, disabled my 2nd monitor. Nothing worked lol.

>>106232371
>xe boughted evga

>>106232397
Ya, I liked their attitude and customer support quality in the board partner space. Worth paying a bit more for good warranties.

Dunno who I'll go with when I upgrade 10 years from now.

>>106232215
learned helplessness with tech
something doesn't work right away its bricked

>>106232473
We need to beat these niggas with sticks

>>106230086 (OP)

Couldn't even connect, also the EA client uses a port that Hyper-V locks up. The POS just isn't worth the hassle and I hope EA loses a shit ton in dev costs.

Also, the secure boot / TPM stuff was to stop cheating.

who gives a shit. this game is cod audience capture attempt same as every entry in the franchise since it went multiplatform. with no server binaries to boot

i shant be playing it even for free

>>106230483
This happened to my step-mother, when she was almost(maybe actually, dkdc) scammed by some pajeets, and she managed to somehow trigger her bitlocker. I wrote down on a post-it what she needed to do, log-in to microsoft live with her bitlocker key in order to get another key to unlock her laptop, but she is pickle-brained and no longer cognitively capable of such trivial tasks. I have given her all the help I am going to, and now she has over half a million in government welfare wages rotting in a USAA account. It is what she gets for tempting my equally wicked and pickle-brained earthly father into destroying our family for liquor and cheap disgusting fornication with a wart hog looking little boy shape witch.