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Critical thinking led me to believe this story was false. The option in question wasn't cloaked under "security" or "encryption" as many lock-downs are, but in
by raesene9 10y ago
Critical thinking led me to believe this story was false.
The option in question wasn't cloaked under "security" or "encryption" as many lock-downs are, but instead an unsupported disk mode.
The evidence that it was a "secret conspiracy" was a quote from a low-level customer support rep. You really think that that kind of information is provided to the thousands of rep's at that level... It would leak instantly if that was the case.
So Occam's razor applies. By far the more likely explanation, in this case, is a hardware incompatibility between Linux and the Lenovo configuration.
do corp's (including Lenovo and Microsoft ) do shitty stuff to users, sure of course they do. Does that mean people should jump to conclusions without adequate evidence... no.
- simbalion 10y agoedit: the truth has been censored because I spoke harshly of those looking to perpetuate evil.
- raesene9 10y agolol relatively new (hmm first PC I built myself was 1992, started work professionally in IT in 1995, first ran Desktop linux with (pre FC) Redhat 9, s'that long enough ago for you?) I was a Netware admin back when MS dirty tricks were at their height, I personally battled with the driver shenanigans they pulled on Windows 95... This really didn't look like a conspiracy to me it looked like old-school, someone's done something funky with the hardware and not bothered thinking about linux support. Thus my original comment, it was disappointing to see pople rush to judgement on this, not everything is a conspiracy and it doesn't help to see it as such.