only the bad people are at the top so people see that and only the bad people decide to pursue that career path

(i’m just using ‘bad people’ as a simplification)

it’s a laptop so probably eDP

i wonder how much survivorship bias there is in this

no Looks To The Moon :(((

i mean there’s a possibility of malware hiding in usb peripherals since they have flash, and for thinkpads I think the camera, touchpad, smartcard reader are usually usb. If they hypothetically acted as usb mice/keyboards/network adapters/display devices, they could possibly infect your system ig

malware living on the bios rom could possibly live through an internal bios flash (normal “update firmware” thing in the bios or things like ivyrain) if it somehow manages to manipulate that process.

however, it is always overwritten by an external bios flash (using a raspberry pi or something using flashrom), because then you’re directly communicating with the flash chip. (if you suspect that the flash chip has been replaced with a malicious one you’re probably a bit schizo)

one thing is though is that the flash on the embedded controller is left untouched in most operations like this, so it could possibly harbor malware, but the only thing that could possibly do is make your laptop unusable or die randomly. It can’t really affect the software running on it i’d think. What you’d want to do if you’re really schizo and suspect your EC is infected is to externally flash lenovo firmware and use something like this to update the EC before externally flashing Heads.

the chain of trust for your installer USB would be something you can’t really avoid though, just use the most trustworthy computer you have

it’s a thing for specialised input remapping, I’m honestly surprised it doesn’t exist on Linux because Linux has so many keyboard remappers

stop blaming either of the two 50%s, it’s the fault of the 0.1%

yeah no way I’m trusting a corpo like that with my data thanks

tbh it’s just good incentive for me to learn c

comeng b2 is the best <3

i miss some software so im writing my own

isn’t the primary vram for integrated cards just the system ram?

also if they go below the min voltage it won’t be safe (and it’ll usually not allow you) to charge it back up

that’s cool, I’ll try it out!

with the induction coil thing, it NEEDS to boot into a Linux partition that boots into RAM just to play the ElectroBOOM fleming’s right hand rule song at full volume while the coil runs

unfortunately there’s no ElectroBOOM song about the right hand coil rule or electromagnetic induction

imagine using uefi or bios at all

coreboot+grub2 superiority

as for making adversaries make ridiculous mistakes, making the power button short out the battery permanently and wiring up another button for the power instead would be a hilarious security measure

I’ve used lemmy exclusively for almost 1.5 years and I still think the duplicate communities thing could be better, lemmy is small so we might as well maximise the amount of content accessible.

I don’t want all of them to merge, I just think it should be easier for people to subscribe to all of the communities about similar topics

so all the windows are open?