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nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d imagine not every mobo manufacturer will play ball with whoever mandates a locked bootloader.

Right now, we have google and apple with a duopoly on mobile devices.

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douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The grand majority of all laptops and desktop devices are using motherboards manufactured specifically for those devices (or device series). It’s not much of a stretch to imagine them adding restrictions to their already mature supply chain.

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- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sure, but there’s Tuxedo Computers, Framework, the PopOS guys selling PCs and many more. Those won’t go away.
  
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