“9 Linux Distros that don’t even pretend to work”

Min wage was 25 cents an hour, about $500 a year.

But it doesn’t work. The phone just says “NO NETWORK” and you can;t make any calls,

You can make emergency calls on a phone with an expired SIM card whose phone number has been re-used. So that would not be traceable to the number, but they can still triangulate your position.

And then hardly anything will work, so whats the point ?

If your system doesn’t have a TPM chip, you can still emulate it in softtware, but then everything will run like molasses, so again basically poitnless.

Its to stop idiots downloading cat videos and infecting the system with ransomware.

if your sys admin keeps TPM on - and they would have to be nuts to turn it off - you’ll be opening an account.

Sure, but then pretty well nothing will work, so what’s the point ?

Well they only just dropped support for Win7 and that came out in 2009.