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Cake day: December 20th, 2021

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  • Sorry, I didn’t think this would need further elaboration as to why it is relevant to your initial question.

    Which (Lenovo) notebooks to buy

    Why would anyone trust this company to provide them with hardware that they will use for sensitive tasks that handle personal data?

    Just because you are reinstalling the OS does not mean that you can implicitly trust the hardware. There are many forms that a manufacturer backdoor can take, and WPBT has shown that Windows is not clean after a reinstall. Similarly, Linux is vulnerable to binary injection by the UEFI firmware.

    You don’t have to agree with my opinion, and I wouldn’t shame you for buying a Lenovo device, but you cannot dispute the relevance of my comment. I put it there for the benefit of people who don’t know about Lenovo’s prior scandals and who, like me, would take that as a signal to reject their products.