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@electrineer yeah already did mine doesn't it's locked on two chips so I would have to change chips or rewrite them with unlocked bios
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@beegC0de actually it's common for businesses to put them on and they usually sell old hardware but don't remove shit like that as they're lazy
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
All I have to say is that ThinkPads are a wonderful piece of hardware that are worth the price but if they have their BIOS locked (if you buy it second hand) they're the worst thing in the world that should just be thrown into the gutter as you can't even reinstall windows in most cases nor install Linux due to secure boot being enabled and BIOS being locked ffs I had great hopes for this one
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