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    19 hours ago

    TPM is used for measured boot. Measured boot can check various parts of the system to ensure they are the expected values haven’t been tampered with. You don’t want a part of the system to be replaced with malware and not realize it.

    If it detects something changed, it won’t release its secret. It may signal to you that something malicious was done or something benign that the OS updated didn’t account for.

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        17 hours ago

        A recovery code. I did a test install of Aeon and was given the code: dhnhlgc-fbndjbni-ufrkcfnk-nfebvtut-ftkkiiur-tijidtub-hujnucgu-erduhije

        64 digits, but only alphabetical and a certain subset (16/26) due to weirdness of keyboard layouts.