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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 (7 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.

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