As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (called Libreboot when it was installed, but now called GNU Boot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free software. This is one of the computers endorsed by the FSF. I’ve used other Thinkpad models that similarly respect users’ freedom since the early 2010s.
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Why does this sound so much like Patrick Bateman
Mother, may I have some more pixels?
2010s: and here we have the 4K screen!!!
2026: 8 bit, take it or leave it
Can’t spare the RAM for more pixels.
In this economy?
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
…May I see it?
No.
I have prepared the images to be flashed💾, an EEPROM programmer (Raspberry Pi Pico H)✏️ and configured my Lenovo Thinkpad T480’s BIOS settings to receive the flash💻. Now I’m just waiting for the test clip to arrive in the mail. ETA tomorrow. Libreboot, here we go.
Not wanting to knock you, but Libreboot on a T480 is fake. There’s nothing “libre” about it.
Only until Ivy Bridge are you able to remove FSP, MRC and most of the Intel ME code.
They also don’t have grub-only builds anymore, so security went to shit.
Might aswell just build coreboot at that point.
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html
It’s a significant improvement to me that it’s open source and that - according to the above description - Intel ME is indeed removed.
Have you flashed Libreboot on a T480, then taken a dump of the chip and confirmed that Intel code is still on there?
I also don’t understand why I would need grub when I use systemd’s bootloader. I only want to replace the BIOS.
Still has a stupid Windows logo on the
superkey, though.
This keyboard design hasn’t been on ThinkPads for at least 10 years (except for the 25th Anniversary ThinkPad), sadly.
I don’t think the GNU/Linux name is even correct anymore. The amount of GNU utils is not as high as it once were and there are so many other components that are important or even essential now that it is somehow unfair to even name GNU so prominently.
I think I could get along without the other stuff, but if I had to lose the GNU stuff I’d just end up going outside or something.
systemd/Linux
Poetterinix.
Did BSD tar write this?
I use KDE/Linux btw
Annoying little stickers telling me things I already know about the hardware I own do not belong on the fucking hardware I own. I meticulously remove that shit before I even turn on the computer for the first time.
I smell proprietary in this Intel…
That freaking Windows button that I have to disable for every laptop
thanks for nothing, I hope you get what you deserve
I wonder how many millions of hours around the world have been wasted on this one fucking button
Can you explain what do you mean by have to disable windows button?
I remember my first Intel CPU came with a whole mess of those “Intel Inside” stickers and I was slapping them on everything. At the time, it was funny because most shit didn’t have a computer in it yet.
