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by krn 2329 days ago
> They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust.

I agree on principle, but Lenovo is no less trustworthy than any Smart TV manufacturer, such as Samsung, Sony, or LG.

It has become a common industry practice to subsidize consumer hardware with pre-installed spyware. The only solution here is to replace the pre-installed OS with an open-source alternative.

I would still pick Lenovo ThinkPad running Fedora Workstation over any iMac or Macbook product.

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Well, yes but at least I can refrain from setting the Wi-Fi password in my TV and still end up with a perfectly working TV (I do.) A computer without Internet is not very useful nowadaysm
Well, until TV manufacturers will choose to add a GSM module to TVs :)
And that shouldn't be far away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM