I recently did an install of Windows 11 on a machine without TPM

To bypass the check during installation:

    Boot the laptop from your USB.

    When you see the "This PC can't run Windows 11" screen, press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.

    Type regedit and hit Enter.

    Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup.

    Right-click Setup, create a new Key named LabConfig.

    Inside LabConfig, create two DWORD (32-bit) values:

        BypassTPMCheck = 1

        BypassSecureBootCheck = 1

    Close the registry and the command prompt; the installer will now let you proceed.

It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game, and unsupported hacks like these usually aren't well-received in corporate environments. Decent stop-gap for home use, though!

Maybe the agent can ask the user clarifying questions. Even better if it could do it at the point of submission.

Blocking the domain of the video player works. For example, primis.tech you can add this to your uBO filter:

  ||primis.tech$domain=~primis.tech

Primis is one of them, but there are a few of these companies. I can't remember them all.

I'm also in the UK, and it came to 31MB. Then I turned off uBO, Firefox tracking protection, and rejected the cookie notice, and it went over 40MB.

In 10 years - 100MB In 20 years - 20MB

I think there'll continue to be growth in page sizes, but then maybe we'll consider efficiency, or the NYTimes shuts down and the 20MB page will be the liquidators selling the domain. Maybe we don't even use domains by then as everything is on an app.

Even with ad blocking, it's transferring over 200KB of data, half of which is to load a couple of fonts. Not terrible but the basic HTML is only 17KB.

If scripting wasn't allowed, we'd probably all have a different browser that allowed it - probably wrapped in a Flash wrapper.

27KB of CSS for me, but only if I switch off uBO. Otherwise, there's no CSS. I think the CSS is just for the cookie popup styling.

The good thing about the heavy use of GTM, is that its easy to block. Just block that one endpoint and you remove most of the advertising and tracking. When some new advertising service is invented, its already blocked thanks to the blocking of GTM.

Then the AI assistants will be the middle men.

So anything external we depend on is a middleman at this point. We need to do better than this. :P