Aww shit try this one:
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A "security chip" is just any trusted hardware secure element that is tamper-proof and holds a manufacturer key, right?
Some implentations are going to have that as an available peripheral, and some are going to have it as in charge of the whole system, and one of those setups is fine.
Or I suppose it is fine until a lot of people actually use it. Then it starts to become a problem for people who don't feel like consenting to putting on whatever handcuffs people want to use the system to know that they are wearing.
I feel like the management engine card is sneakily changing the threat model in the middle of the conversation.
Is it bad? Yes. Is it a big source of security holes? Absolutely.
Is it a way that Facebook is going to profile you to try and sell you to advertisers? Or a reason why you can't ditch Windows? No.
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
Usually for Windows VM gaming you want to pass through a GPU and a USB controller and plug in directly. You might be able to use something like Steam streaming but I wouldn't recommend a normal desktop-app-oriented thin client setup, not having tried it.
You may run into weird problems with latency spikes: mostly it will work great and everything runs at 90 FPS or whatever, but then inexplicably 1 frame every few minutes takes 100ms and nobody can tell you why.
There can also be problems with storage access speed. What ought to be very fast storage on the host is substantially slower storage once the image file and host FS overhead, or the block device pass through overhead, come into play. Or maybe you just need an NVMe device to pass straight through.
How come we experience so much more inflation than deflation? in other words, why does our buying power decrease far more often than it increases?
Some TLDs that aren't country codes but also aren't very useful or popular will sometimes be blanket blocked by institutions, on the theory that there's so many more garbage malware C&Cs or whatever than actual useful sites that it makes sense to ban the whole thing. So you might not want to go with .bingo or .rest or anything with no perceivable use.
It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.
But now that's not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it's from System76 and meant to run Linux.