I bought a factory refurbish HP Dev One. It’s basically the only laptop designed for Linux made by a big company (i guess it was a project between HP and system76.)

It doesn’t have a windows key, because it was specifically made for Linux, the hardware choices were made based on stability of Linux hardware drivers, etc.

They put windows 11 on it. WTF?

It doesn’t have a bios key for windows, because it isn’t a windows laptop. So someone spent extra money on a digital license for windows home to put on a laptop designed specifically to not have windows on it.

What the shit? I was gonna wipe it for security anyway, but… it’s just baffling.

Ok, i need help.

Is this a joke? Is this person making a joke about how some idiots will happily tolerate fascists, racists, and even genocide, as long as whoever is doing it is polite and well spoken?

Are they picking the guy from the movie who killed half of everyone alive to pick on for being rude to make the point that obsessing about tone policing is a useless waste of time for idiots, that completely removes the ability to focus on actual existential problems, and only ever acts to reinforce the status quo as “good and deserving of respect”?

Or do they just have burn toast where their brains should be?

This is either incredibly clever or the worst thing I’ve seen all week, and i just honestly can’t tell.