minus-squareBennyHill500@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why laptops with linux mostly use unknown distros?linkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoif the manufacturer of the device itself isnt trustworthy everything you do to try and make the device “trustworthy” is futile because OEMs could not just implement backdoors at the software level, but firmware or even hardware level. linkfedilink
minus-squareBennyHill500@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Cheap used business laptops?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHow cheap is cheap? Imo the sweetspot is the T480 linkfedilink
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if the manufacturer of the device itself isnt trustworthy everything you do to try and make the device “trustworthy” is futile because OEMs could not just implement backdoors at the software level, but firmware or even hardware level.