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0 pointswillis9364y ago0 comments

Neat that there's a competitor to system 76. I'll have to look into them later.

I use a T500 I plucked from the trash for secure libre street cred. No blobs anywhere afaik.

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T500 has blobs at minimum: CPU microcode, UEFI boot firmware, EC firmware, GPU firmware, HDD/SSD firmware, Ethernet/WiFi firmware, battery controller firmware, display firmware etc.

willis936OP4y ago

While true, those issues are present even in system76 and purism. They're even worse because the T500 doesn't have a dedicated GPU or TPM. I know the combination of hardware I have in my T500 has all FOSS drivers and I assume purism is the same.

I have it mostly as a toy and I'm sure most purism customers are the same.

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