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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by vbezhenar on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:13AM (#18159815)
I don't know about phones, but there are laptops which are relatively easy to disassemble and have replaceable parts. I, personally, would buy only those laptops if I would need one.
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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by missjellyfish on Sunday October 07, 2018 @08:54AM (#18160325)
That is, until Lenovo decides that they want to have a say in what WiFi cards you can install.

Fortunately IDA 7 Free and a Buspirate fixed that. Would be a shame if any PCIe cards would be accepted, wouldn‘t it...

FYI, the patch was less than ten bytes long. Inconvenient non the less.

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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by shagen on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:21AM (#18164107)
Lenovo stopped the whitelusting with the 50 Models. I tried two internal wifi m2 ngff cards that are not listed as compatible in my x260 and both were working.
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