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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 20:02:54 JST 翠星石

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   • samueldr
   @samueldr My advise would be avoid purchasing hardware that won't even turn on without proprietary software, with digital handcuffs that prevent replacement of such software, as such will prevent the future installation of GNUboot or u-boot.
   
   Even if a computer supports UEFI, there's a problem if nobody is allowed to fix the many bugs in the bootloader.
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     samueldr (samueldr@ap.samueldr.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 20:02:55 JST samueldr

     Just a reminder:

     DO NOT…

     … buy hardware that does not support standards-based boot, or does not provide the affordances for standards-based boot to live outside of the operating system storage media.