Ubuntu to add TPM-backed full-disk encryption

Bad capacitors was - iirc - notorious about the year 2000 time frame. Can't remember what happened or why, but a BIG batch of dodgy capacitors ended up in the motherboard manufacturers inventories.

There was a whole spate of articles about how to tell if you had a dodgy motherboard. Then all the dodgy mobos died-were retired, and it's no longer a problem.

Same with hard drives. I think it was the Thailand floods or something, there was a massive shortage of disks and a lot of dodgy components, and - particularly with Seagate - a huge number of dodgy 3TB hard drives flooded the market. They disappeared over a few years, and things were back to their reliable norm.

At the end of the day, be it hard drives, NVMe, RAM, mobos, these things all have an expected lifetime. And mobos seem to be either (a) one of the most reliable things, or seriously prone to being obsolete before they fail. You never really ever heard of mobo problems apart from that (admittedly very large) dodgy batch.

Cheers,
Wol