• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      Case in point:

      Find a recently-ish manufactured used Chromebook/chromebox, and try to unlock the BIOS so you can slap a different OS on it

      Source: it me 🫠

    • BroiledShit@reddthat.com
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      2 days ago

      No, because fuck you. Ownership is for pussies, do you really want to own what you buy? Just buy a new one if you have problems. my hope is that we eventually get to a point where you cant even build your own PC. Gaming PCs all built by Nvidia woth the latest Geforce built in to the motherboard. With a subscription fee to use it, im talking cheap like only $20/month. and then in a year it can sleep gently in a landfill. Oh and a feature that sets your house on fire and mangles your genitals. and if you try to turn that off, you get sued. it was in the TOS, just dont use a computer if that bothers you, shithead. the future is bright.

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      2 days ago

      Without software access it is useless until you are able to jailbreak it.

      Which is technically a breach of contract at the very least and could be deemed IP theft by a brain dead USian judge.

      So you can’t even commercialize your solution because capitalism works 1 way.