[tedunangst]

It's only a F12, tab, enter, down, tab, enter away to disable if you really don't like it that much.

[jmclnx]

Yes right now, what about 5 to 10 years from now ?

Or maybe for that option in the future, the device will cost thousands of USD more.

Or you need a special professional license to get a non-locked down device, and the license will cost more than a house in a rich suburb.

[tedunangst]

People have been asking "what about five years from now" for twenty years, so extrapolating from the current rate of change, I'd say things will be fine.

[josephcsible]

You can disable Secure Boot on x86 PCs, but nowhere else.

[tedunangst]

So how do people install openbsd on the thinkpad x13s?

[josephcsible]

Here's an article about the rule being made in the first place (IIRC, the rule got made at the same time Windows on ARM was itself first given to manufacturers): https://softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confi...

I'm not sure how it's working on those laptops, but I'd imagine the choices are either that Lenovo got given an exception, the rule as a whole got changed, or that Microsoft just hasn't noticed or is intentionally looking the other way.