← Back to context Comment by ItsHarper 2 months ago What? 5 comments ItsHarper Reply NewJazz 2 months ago eww lenovo -> lenovo owns motorola. lenovo is a trash company that ships shitware, even in their firmware, there is shitwaresee what you made us do google -> this event is a direct result of google's rug pull of support for pixel devicesgoogle/trump2 -> the current admin is linked to attempts to curtail people's control of their hardware vsgherzi 2 months ago Could you expand on the firmware stuff? Do they have bad practices on the firmware? SyneRyder 2 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway. fsflover 2 months ago Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov... strcat 2 months ago GrapheneOS will continue supporting Pixels.
NewJazz 2 months ago eww lenovo -> lenovo owns motorola. lenovo is a trash company that ships shitware, even in their firmware, there is shitwaresee what you made us do google -> this event is a direct result of google's rug pull of support for pixel devicesgoogle/trump2 -> the current admin is linked to attempts to curtail people's control of their hardware vsgherzi 2 months ago Could you expand on the firmware stuff? Do they have bad practices on the firmware? SyneRyder 2 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway. fsflover 2 months ago Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov... strcat 2 months ago GrapheneOS will continue supporting Pixels.
vsgherzi 2 months ago Could you expand on the firmware stuff? Do they have bad practices on the firmware? SyneRyder 2 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway. fsflover 2 months ago Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
SyneRyder 2 months ago Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway.
eww lenovo -> lenovo owns motorola. lenovo is a trash company that ships shitware, even in their firmware, there is shitware
see what you made us do google -> this event is a direct result of google's rug pull of support for pixel devices
google/trump2 -> the current admin is linked to attempts to curtail people's control of their hardware
Could you expand on the firmware stuff? Do they have bad practices on the firmware?
Not sure If this is what they're referring to, but 10 years ago Lenovo shipped low-end laptops with pre-installed adware called Superfish that also compromised the HTTPS certificate chain:
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2015/02/20/lenovo-su...
Pretty terrible, but it was never on the high-end laptops, and plenty of HN folks are running Lenovo ThinkPads anyway.
Yes, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
GrapheneOS will continue supporting Pixels.