ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋1d ago
My shiny new tiny laptop, or UMPC. It's a no-name Chinese model, and it blows my old GPD Pocket (R.I.P.) away. It's so much better. It's a bit heavy though being made of milled aluminum, but it'll live in my purse anyway. I'll make some sort of video overview after I've used it for a while. #tinythings #umpc #shiny #cute
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@Lydie And loaded with spyware.
Apr 2 at 1:51pmWeb
Show threadℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋1d ago
@ShredderFeeder Nope. Came with Win 11, didn't even let that boot one time. Tiny10 LTSC is onboard with zero telemetry and enshittification.
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@Lydie The problem is they embed the malware int he BIOS, so it installs to the OS even clean.

China can't be trusted..ever.

Show threadℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋1d ago
@ShredderFeeder The device you're typing on right now was made in China.
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@Lydie I don't trust it either.

But I also don't allow Windows in my house.

Show threadℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋1d ago
@ShredderFeeder I trust China more than the US regime. In fact, I'd rather Xi spy on me than that orange nazi.
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@Lydie On that, we agree. But the US Regime is temporary (I hope)

China is always going to be china. The biggest mistake we ever made is offloading our manufacturing to them.

Show threadℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋1d ago
@ShredderFeeder We agree there as well. Electronics production should've been kept internal, at least for certain chips.
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@ShredderFeeder @Lydie You can't actually embed malware of the sort of nature you're thinking in a standard PC UEFI firmware.

You can embed a lot. It can enable a lot. But not THAT much. Not actual phone home and track entirely through just the firmware type stuff.

You're also applying a much much heavier "solution" than necessary. A reverse Occam's Razor if you will. Why build some sort of custom UEFI firmware that somehow fits all the necessary stuff to do both standard UEFI stuff and yet also slip and do this stuff undetected when the stock Windows 11 already has everything they need and they can just toss in one very simple little thing that has it do all those functions and more? 99.9999% of their customers will not change the stock OS...

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@nazokiyoubinbou @Lydie

https://www.pcmag.com/news/malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls-found-on-asus-gigabyte-motherboards

I think that's incorrect. I knew I had read it, took just a quick sec to find the article.

Malware That Can Survive OS Reinstalls Found On Asus, Gigabyte Motherboards

The malware was found targeting older H81 motherboards and seems to have been around since at least 2016, according to antivirus vendor Kaspersky.

PCMAG