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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Tech paranoid all the way, although not the same type of tech paranoid as Luke Smith. The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them). Thinkpads are just another brand of overpriced laptop. Besides the occasional steam game, I heavily prefer FOSS only and will flat out refuse almost anything that has drm. My unlocked bootloader android phone is so heavily locked down with privacy stuff that I cause Google to lose money merely by existing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them).

Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's the point if they still have AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc. chips on them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

You mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Welcome to riscv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

PinePhone Pro for the mobile side. The schematics are available. I quite like mine, especially with the keyboard case. It's basically a pocket laptop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is only for laptops by the way. System76 desktop BIOSes are still closed source. It's such a shame that there's no FOSS BIOS for desktop PCs, hopefully AMD OpenSIL changes that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Werent they gonna make them foss? Heard it some time ago so who knows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure they can make them FOSS because they don't make their desktop motherboards AFAIK. They're much harder to make than laptop ones.

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