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Comment by autoexec

2 hours ago

Buying a thinkpad means using a device made by Lenovo, a company which has repeatedly shipped devices infected with malware and backdoors (sometimes for profit) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...

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broken-kebab  2 hours ago

He apparently wipes all of that when installing FreeBSD though.

bigyabai  1 hour ago

I hope it pays well, those Windows users are subsidizing some great hardware.

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