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I guess I should go further: some vacuum cleaners have to have a ground connection in the hose, to try to discharge the dust. If they removed it for unrelated reasons, they probably lowered the overall quality of the product overall.
To Shark's defense, I haven't seen too many non-commercial/consumer vacuums with grounded plugs.
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They didn't "attempt to block Linux", they just shipped hardware without a Linux driver. And later released a workaround to make the hardware work in a slower, more power consuming backwards compatibility mode so Intel can continue not properly supporting the hardware in Linux. But sure, it was totally "Lenovo blocking Linux".
I'm afraid you're misguided here. Lenovo initially released a BIOS with a goto statement added to jmp out of the disk controller mode setting (which is normally present and allows the user to change back to AHCI mode). Reverse engineers on the Lenovo forums discovered this modification while studying the disassembly. Then, one user patched the BIOS and manually reflashed it using an SPI flasher and some soldering, an…
Because switching to AHCI mode with Windows installed would brick the machine (Yay, Microsoft), and Lenovo foolishly assumed that people who wanted to use Linux would buy one of the Linux certified machines instead (X1 Yoga and 60 series Yoga devices are all certified: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd031426 – but I'm sure that's just more proof that Lenovo hates Linux for some reason).
> the path of least resistance is to have Lenovo unblock that BIOS setting, which amounts to changing one line of code, or 15 minutes of one engineer's time.
Which is exactly what Lenovo did: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Yo...
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Humorous demonstration of the same mistake: https://youtu.be/sI5Ftm1-jik?t=2m20s
I can't tell, the second boom where he holds the resistor in place was that on purpose? If so holy shit that's a dangerous way to make the point. If it was also an accident then he is lucky to be alive since he doesn't seem to know what he is doing. I know this video is supposed to be funny, but I couldn't bring myself to laugh. Too many people die making the same mistakes.
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"clean" mains power has nothing to do with zapping. Where'd you hear this? I've literally never heard this nonsense before.
I suppose a neutral line with a nonzero voltage could be called "dirty", but not in the traditional noise sense.
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I'm afraid you're misguided here. Lenovo initially released a BIOS with a goto statement added to jmp out of the disk controller mode setting (which is normally present and allows the user to change back to AHCI mode). Reverse engineers on the Lenovo forums discovered this modification while studying the disassembly. Then, one user patched the BIOS and manually reflashed it using an SPI flasher and some soldering, an…
> Lenovo initially released a BIOS with a goto statement added to jmp out of the disk controller mode setting Because switching to AHCI mode with Windows installed would brick the machine (Yay, Microsoft), and Lenovo foolishly assumed that people who wanted to use Linux would buy one of the Linux certified machines instead (X1 Yoga and 60 series Yoga devices are all certified: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documen…
There are tons of BIOS settings that could "brick" my machine though, it's a weak argument, really. My car didn't come with a lock on the hood.
"Which is exactly what Lenovo did"
Okay, you're acting like it didn't require any teeth pulling on our end to get them to release it (check out the 30+ page forum topics).