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$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by pessimizer »

ZeroConcerns wrote: post #5

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Actually, the mercenary garbage that Lenovo started doing was absolutely hateful. I'd been tearing my hair out forever trying to figure out why nothing I could do would make my bluetooth work right on an old T430, even when I upgraded the chip. Assumed it was a Linux bug.

Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linux by force ignoring what the system reports.) I have no idea why you would do that except out of spite; I don't remember them selling bluetooth upgrades or anything. They were just keeping their options open? This is aside from having to hack the bios in order to upgrade wireless or use generic batteries.

I would be awesome if the people that sold me products weren't awful people. They don't have to feel bad about it, but they should.

I don't care that you're angrier at Apple than at Lenovo. I'm angrier at the electric company, but I don't bring it up to defend my local alderman. I also don't care that FOSS hasn't solved all your problems for free like they apparently promised you they would.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by samtheprogram »

pessimizer wrote: post #12
ZeroConcerns wrote: post #5

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Actually, the mercenary garbage that Lenovo started doing was absolutely hateful. I'd been tearing my hair out forever trying to figure out why nothing I could do would make my bluetooth work right on an old T430, even when I upgraded the chip. Assumed it was a Linux bug. Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linu…

> Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linux by force ignoring what the system reports.)

I used to Hackintosh Lenovos -- I thought this was at the bios level, so even if you did DSDT patching (linux or mac wise) it wouldn't work?

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by kgwxd »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #10

I wish there was an actual thriving business model like this -- just fixing most annoying bugs, for a price, of commonly used desktop software. Why proprietary software companies cannot or do not want to provide this service is over me. Perhaps I'm too much used to consulting.

The paperwork.

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by kykat »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #10

I wish there was an actual thriving business model like this -- just fixing most annoying bugs, for a price, of commonly used desktop software. Why proprietary software companies cannot or do not want to provide this service is over me. Perhaps I'm too much used to consulting.

I think that 2k is really really cheap for the expertise in kernel development

Re: $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

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Post by Gigachad »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #10

I wish there was an actual thriving business model like this -- just fixing most annoying bugs, for a price, of commonly used desktop software. Why proprietary software companies cannot or do not want to provide this service is over me. Perhaps I'm too much used to consulting.

People spam the most minimal viable patch to collect the bounty and move on. And these days they are sending an AI slop solution. It doesn’t promote good code like actually hiring someone.
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