• MonkderDritteEnglish
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    Can we please make vendor-locked bootloaders illegal, for repairability and consumer choice and all that? There’s literally no reason for it, except to lock in customers.

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      If history is any indication then more lock-in will be the future trend. And they will sugarcoat it with reasons such as “this is more secure”.