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Leaked images reveal Lenovo’s Steam Deck competitor with a hint of the Switch (www.theverge.com)
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[-] prorester@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

Lol, it'll run windows 11 to kill your battery with all the spyware it runs.

[-] 2tone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Feels like a stretch. Elaborate?

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 36 points 1 year ago

Back in 2015 or so Lenovo was pre-installing superfish spyware on some systems. Whether this was an accident or intentional is up for interpretation. Whether 8 years is enough to earn back trust is up to you. Personally I re-image anything that's mine because I don't need the vendor's bloat that just does the same things windows already does. I don't really use windows much anyway these days for my personal machines but I'm probably not going to buy anything from Lenovo any time soon.

[-] 520@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

It wasn't just preinstalling malware. It was also installing malware stored in the firmware into fresh Windows installs.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, i remember it being pretty bad and fighting with my boss at the time because they were all in with lenovo. Even after I showed them the articles about the malware they wanted us to push out lenovo's bloat on all machines (like the stupid battery monitor) because they liked how it looked better. I got a new job shortly after.

[-] wmassingham@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the Lenovo Service Engine rootkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Lenovo_Service_Engine

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