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Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You can tear the wifi antenna off the board, and it’ll never connect again (not just unplug it from the card, actually tear it off the pads), could also remove the shield from the Wifi module as well for good measure and it would never get a good signal ever again.

If you’re feeling really brave you could even try removing or cutting the traces connecting the Wireless module to the main system bus, has diminishing returns though since it would be very easy to short or destroy the PCI bus rendering the system completely inoperable.

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aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass, but it wouldn’t matter. In some cases, it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.

But hey, it’s not happened (yet) so this is purely speculation.

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- Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass
  
  Not exactly a bypass it’s more so destruction of property (your own property might I add, since there’s no clause that says you have to return it to the company at some point)
  
  it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.
  
  Yeah we’re definitely not at the point in time yet where it is illegal to vandalize your own things, hacking in some places, but vandalism of your own property not so much (exceptions only for rentals or leases, which TVs aren’t since you never need to return them).
  
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