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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 21:26:23 JST翠星石 @sunbeam_rider Unfortunately, the T480 will not init without proprietary IME software and there is a signature to prevent a free software replacement from being written, thus that computer is currently cryptographically impossible to support with only free software.
The dishonesty on this page is incredible; https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html
- It claims that the me is "disabled", although some of the proprietary IME software is still there - there is just a flag set that asks it to halt after boot.
- It claims that "boot guard" (intel's guard's boot on what should be your computer) is "pwned", when the proprietary software that enforces it still runs, although is made nonfunctional via an exploit.
- It says it's "the most freedom-feasible of all relatively modern x86 laptops.", when it requires proprietary software that may never end up getting replaced.
I suspect such hardware will never run only free software, although convenient functionality may be made available.