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Re:Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard by piceas on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:30AM (#31394133)
One of my Lenovo laptops has firmware to prevent me from upgrading its WiFi card using off the shelf components.

If it's successful one would expect availability to increase.

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Re:Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard by IE6 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:57PM (#31415594)
It was reported recently that they are also doing the same thing with the CPU in some of their machines. As someone who has bought older Xeon CPUs to upgrade older PCs (often giving them years more useful life) that is frustrating.
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Re:Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard by greyhair on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:49AM (#31397136)
Is it a Lenovo ThinkPad, or one of their other models?
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Re:Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard by piceas on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:37PM (#31413961)
That one was a yoga 2 pro. An unfortunate choice to stray from the T and X series on my part. Or, they could have chosen not to add software limitations and Superfish or at least made it clear before I bought it.
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Re:Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard by ekianjo on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:59PM (#31405578)
Some thinkpads have a whitelist for wireless chips in the firmware, that's known - but I am not sure how widespread it is.
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