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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:35PM (#46801139)
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to attribute a lot of malice to Microsoft, but in this case I really do believe that it was incompetence. Everything I've ever read about 90%+ of hardware vendors is that shipping hilariously broken firmware is an everyday occurrence for them.

(This is separate from Windows RT, of course)

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Re:Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company by NekkoDroid on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:01PM (#46801449)
This reminds me of when I enrolled only my own keys into a gigabyte AB350 and I just soft-bricked it because presumably some opt-rom required MS keys.

I exchanged it for an Asrock board and there I can enable secure boot without MS keys and still have it boot cuz they actually let you choose what level of signing the opt-rom needs when you enable secure boot.

What I want to say with this is that it requires the company to actually care to provide a good experience.

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