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Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application by gentleman11 on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:59PM (#25086015)
Lenovo was caught 3 times installing spyware on their machines. I don’t know why people forgive that
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Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application by stuff4ben on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:24PM (#25086306)
Because any self-respecting developer will reformat and reinstall Windows or ideally Linux and problem solved, no spyware.
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Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application by bastardoperator on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:26PM (#25087709)
Not when they’re doing it at bios level, formatting is useless.
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Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application by KronisLV on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:38PM (#25087803)
Yep, here's a nice summary of that situation that someone made on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/3gxoh9/psa_...
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Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application by vetinari on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:18PM (#25088727)
That BIOS level requires the operating system to execute certain ACPI table as a Windows executable.
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