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Still has a stupid Windows logo on the super key, though.
Mother, may I have some 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?
2010s: and here we have the 4K screen!!!
2026: 8 bit, take it or leave it
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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This keyboard design hasn't been on ThinkPads for at least 10 years (except for the 25th Anniversary ThinkPad), sadly.
that seems like a t420 or some similar model
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.