Hayley 🦊My x220 is undergoing surgery today
I'm swapping from a (broken) custom coreboot setup to libreboot.
Thanks @libreleah for all the work you do maintaining libreboot!
IOUnix@huggles @libreleah What in the world could possibly require hot wiring your thinkpad? lol
@IOUnix flashing it's BIOS.
It uses an 8MB flash chip, the blue clip in the photo clips over the flash and lets you have easier access to the legs on the IC to read/write data to it directly.
Hyacinthe Stripeyeen@huggles does Libreboot give peace of mind on older laptops? Been contemplating having a Thinkpad with that flashed as a reliable secondary pc on a budget
@hyacinthestripeyeen depends on what you want peace of mind for I guess.
If it's for not having proprietary software then it mostly achieves that.
If it's for flexibility, hackability or security then definitely. It lets you do fun stuff such as actual full disk encryption, using Linux as your BIOS environment, measured boots with two factor authentication required on boot (see the heads project).
If it's for stability then I'm not sure. I've used some flavour coreboot for a while and haven't had any issues but it is still unofficial software so YMMV.
@huggles I'd say security and stability, and chiefly for net browsing and basic office task, so as long I still can use a printer or watch videos without it messes up it's all good.
Though sorry if it sounds dumb, but would non-free codecs or softwares work fine if the bios is entirely foss?
Though sorry if it sounds dumb, but would non-free codecs or softwares work fine if the bios is entirely foss?
@hyacinthestripeyeen yeap non free codecs and software will still work fine