[autoexec]

Buying a thinkpad means using a device made by Lenovo, a company which has repeatedly shipped devices infected with malware and backdoors (sometimes for profit) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...

[bigyabai]

I hope it pays well, those Windows users are subsidizing some great hardware.

[broken-kebab]

He apparently wipes all of that when installing FreeBSD though.

[autoexec]

I wouldn't trust their firmware/hardware anymore than I would their software. I wouldn't encourage them as a company either.

[broken-kebab]

Trust is undef unless assessed within a context. We have zero reasons to trust more or less any vendor's firmware/hardware because they are unauditable. But from experience we can say it works most of the time and there's no discernible difference between Lenovo, Dell, or Apple