but also shame on apple for making it so hard
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It would be nice if they made their stuff more open source friendly, like publishing specs alone would go a long way.
Rad. That is some nice hardware.
Yeah, Linux makes macs a lot more appealing.
I just wish I could have Secure Boot on a Mac, that's the reason I don't have one running Linux, currently on a ThinkPad X13s with a Snapdragon SoC. Encryption without something like Secure Boot... nah.
Once that's a thing, though, it gets very interesting to me.
it is quite unfortunate that only x86 UEFI vendors have an option (and only because it is part of the specification to have) to add your own secure boot keys, it allows for user freedom without compromising with the potential security benefit that secure boot can provide
Apple's never going to give the keys out for that functionality willingly though, so I suspect you'll be waiting for a while.
do you mean cryptographic keys? or metaphoric keys? becausd they dont need to give any cryptographics keys at all, just look how it is done on x86, you can just add your own keys and most boards let you disable the builtin ones
As there's currently no functionality for that type of Secure Boot, it'd require an exploit that manupulates the firmware, which is unlikely to happen any time soon.
this is why I don't buy apple hardware, they just go out of their to make it shit (besides the garbage software they include)
The M-series hardware is locked down and absofuckinglutely proprietary and locked down and most likely horrible to repair.
But holy shit, every other laptop I’ve ever used looks and feels like a cheap toy in comparison. Buggy firmware that can barely sleep, with shitty drivers from the cheapest components they could find. Battery life in low single digits. The old ThinkPads are kinda up there in perceived ”build quality”, but I haven’t seen any other laptop that’s even close to a modern macbook. Please HP, Dell, Lenovo, Framework or whoever , just give me a functional high quality laptop. I’ll pay.
i almost want to see affordable laptops, that focus on ergonomics and dependability over cutting edge specs... the build quality is so important for using a device long term - i had a mac laptop that i bought for like 10 years ago and it amazingly still works...