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there's still tech out there that does, like the pinephone. It's going to be niche, but it exists
by asddubs 4y ago
there's still tech out there that does, like the pinephone. It's going to be niche, but it exists
- gabereiser 4y agonot saying they don't exist, but to penetrate that 1% market share to be relevant they have not. I did call out things like raspi and such as still viable for tinkering but not the same way that I was introduced to computers with the Apple II and later the 386/486DX revolution. Around Pentium II things got anti-tinker and ever since 2007 it's been pretty much a consumer-only market. Walled gardens and locked down OS's, complete with injected ads and tracking.
- asddubs 4y agoat least on x86 you're still able to install whatever operating system you want, even if only for legacy reasons
- gabereiser 4y agoNew motherboards have safe boot enabled and you can’t disable it in UEFI. So no, you can’t.
- asddubs 4y agonot universally true, gigabyte motherboards definitely allow you to disable this
- mixmastamyk 4y agoNope, my new laptop allows disabling. Also many distros are installable anyway/have been signed.
- mmphosis 4y agoexcept that on x86 you are forced to always run an undocumented modified version of Minix