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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 22:50:21 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   *Libreboot T480 and Libreboot 3050 coming soon* on https://minifree.org/ - they are the ThinkPad T480 and Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro, with Libreboot pre-installed.

   I've now discontinued *every* computer product currently sold on minifree.org:

   * Libreboot T440p/X230/W541 (T480 to replace them)
   * Libreboot 9020SFF (3050 to replace it)

   Libreboot is the free/opensource BIOS replacement I maintain:

   https://libreboot.org/

   Working on current orders first; new products to launch within a few days.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 12:32:04 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

     @RL_Dane Yes, you can use flashrom, which is in OpenBSD ports, or compile the newer flashprog.

     To use flashrom/flashprog, first you boot boot OpenBSD with kern.securelevel=-1

     See: https://man.openbsd.org/securelevel

     Libreboot recommends flashprog these days, which is a modern fork of flashrom lead by Nico Huber, though you can still use flashrom if you wish.

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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 12:32:05 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     @libreleah

     Dang, I remember when Libreboot didn't support anything past a Core 2 Duo.

     So nice!!! <3

     P.S., Does flashrom work within #OpenBSD for updating #LibreBoot, or do I need to use a linux boot usb? This is for my X200. Thanks :D

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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 13:34:26 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     @libreleah

     Thanks! 👍🏼

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 13:34:26 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

     @RL_Dane I should note that building lbmk in OpenBSD is currently untested and assumed broken; certain utilities handled by lbmk may still compile, so for example it may be possible to use the ./mk inject command, though the latter is not required on X200 images anyway (no additional vendor files needed).

     Simply running flashprog is supported in BSD however. I have BSD lbmk testing on my long-term TODO plans; perhaps this will be covered in my next audit (expected to begin in early 2025).

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:22:18 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     Also, I've been offering current T440p customers (who I'm working on shipments for) to upgrade them to the T480 at no extra cost. Same goes for anyone who hasn't paid yet for their current T440p orders.

     T440p was discontinued yesterday. T480 will launch soon, to replace it.

     The T480 is a much nicer machine, e.g. NVMe SSD, nicer CPU, and I'll ship with 32GB RAM by default (64GB RAM is possible).

     Much more modern machine, though it looks superficially similar to T440p. Also charges with USB-C.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 02:31:22 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Gwen Nelson

     @gwennelsonuk literally going to snap more pics now and launch it. would have been done by now by i seemed to have accidentally taken a nap

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     Gwen Nelson (gwennelsonuk@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 02:31:23 JST Gwen Nelson

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     @libreleah

     How much are you charging?

     I recently got myself a P50s on eBay, it's nice having more modern power but I'm getting back into the territory of doing my daily computing on hardware which has that damned intel ME