I've seen some shit, but this isn't even funny. Behold: UEFI password protection - the Acer way.pic.twitter.com/h1lBKq3uxs
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I've seen some shit, but this isn't even funny. Behold: UEFI password protection - the Acer way.pic.twitter.com/h1lBKq3uxs
@NikolajSchlej Don't we WANT all this to be accessible to the OS, just not to unprivileged users?
@NikolajSchlej Ideally BIOS should not even exist, much less control access, and fully-FOSS OS should control the metal completely.
@RichFelker x86 requires a firmware to start, because your SSD can't be mapped to CPUs reset vector, only LPC or SPI flash chips can.
@NikolajSchlej This is rather a false dichotomy. The locked-down BIOS is not for solving this problem. Flash for boot-loader/kernel would do
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