I was considering what to switch to from my elderly ThinkPad. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that newer ThinkPads go as far in the direction of less user

I was considering what to switch to from my elderly ThinkPad. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that newer ThinkPads go as far in the direction of less user control that they stopped providing BIOS revisions that don't contain openly advertised "anti-theft" spyware. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/Replacing-W-BIOS-with-P-BIOS-Non-Absolute-Persistence-Module/td-p/4611154 https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/Replaci... I never want to enable it, and I don't want to live in the danger of enabling it by accident, either. If it reported to infrastructure that I own, I'd be talking different.