Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)

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MuttMutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And these devices are controlled both hardware and software by an oem.

PC’s are hardware and software agnostic. Some OEM’s have done weird stuff with the hardware and bios/uefi to prevent users from upgrading and don’t some things but as long as you can buy a motherboard, gpu, ram, and other parts is going to be tough to convince three manufacturers to prevent an end user from using it how they see fit.

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