I can see thermal problems with that.

They are neither of those things They cause virtually zero issues to end users as when leveraged correctly they are invisible. They aren't 'DRM', because, they're nothing to do with DigitalRightsManagement Some Anti-Cheat services I did see are starting to *use* the TPM to store creds/tokens, which it's for, but it's not involved beyond that. I would suggest doing some reading, both articles are fairly lengthy, but for MS Learn they're actually pretty decent at explaining the concepts. SecureBoot https://learn.microsoft.com/en...ystem-security/trusted-boot TPM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/trusted-platform-module-overview Cybersecurity in the modern world is all about defence in depth, and these are two of the layers of the security onion

we have recommended Thunderbird and Mailspring to people who dont want to buy office just for outlook (and dont like "New Outlook")

Taken a few XBOX apart the internals look exactly the same from what we can see through the transparent green. Nothing looks different. Maybe under the hood something might be since transparent plastic is not as strong, but it would be mounting rather than hardware i think.