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Re:Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux by kuschku on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:00AM (#26954324)
> the sad reality is that a lot of hardware vendors are going that way

I upgraded and replaced the RAM, SSD, display and wifi card in my thinkpad. Wouldn’t have been able to do the same with a macbook.

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Re:Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux by pantalaimon on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:22AM (#26954457)
Although thinkpads are particularly bad with their PCIe vendor whitelists.
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Re:Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux by pimeys on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:30AM (#26955548)
Only for wifi. And you can unblock them at least in some models very easily.
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