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I find it funny, how software, bugs, and possibly malicious intents are considered way differently than the same thing in practically any other industry. You b

I find it funny, how software, bugs, and possibly malicious intents are considered way differently than the same thing in practically any other industry. You buy a Toyota, they screw up the floormats, causing a potentially dangerous situation, millions of cars recalled, issue fixed. Volkswagen knows about an intentional 'screwup' (the exhaust cheating), they get caught, class actions, people return cars, get monetary compensation, etc. You buy an Intel, after Intel knows about a screwup... whoops... here's a software fix that cripples your cpus performance. Whoops, didnt fix everything, disable hyperthreading. Money back? Nope. Any other kind of compensation? Nope. Same with software.. they put an EULA there, and they're somehow not responsible for anything anymore. Here, you might lose a functionality that made you buy that computer in the first place, and "whoops".

saxonww 5y ago
The key differences are probably the "dangerous situation" and the "class action". Probably no one is going to die if they can't resell their CPU or install Linux on their laptop. And regardless, for a class action suit there'd have to be a class, and as usual the vast majority of people buying Lenovo are not aware of this, wouldn't care if they did, or actually consider it a feature; this article is about some Lenovo machines that I think are sold primarily to businesses who would probably like it if the machine couldn't have end users overwrite the OS or fiddle with the hardware.