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Chairman_Meh wrote

Reply to comment by existential1 in I am taking a 180 on the anarchy project I want to do. I am going to start taking old computers people dont want. rehab them with linux and then give them to people who cant afford computers. Suits the time I have and my inability to leave home much. just need to find a reliable source of computers. by asterism

watch out, I have an HP running debian that pushed a 'security update' firmware through my repo that briefly locked out my ability to boot, the UEFI was set to ignore legacy boot partitions and 'unsecure' UEFI entries. Unfortunately linux distros aside from the biggies like RH/Fedora don't pay the UEFI license fees so they're not 'official'...

So, long story short, don't blindly install firmware updates from your manufacturer like I did. MS is getting too tight with the chip/system manufacturers and trying to make laptops just as bad as smartphones.

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