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>>foodst+(OP)
Man, I was really enticed by the specs on these Z-series laptops by Lenovo and was looking at an upgrade. But I was reading about Pluton this afternoon, and now looking at this thread, I don't know how I feel about it. Why ruin a great new CPU with future spyware?

I don't like the edit at the bottom where the author's like: oh yea, of course this could be a massive issue against FOSS but we should just assume that vendors will think it's impractical. I've seen how banks react to rooted phones, even when rooted to heighten device security--and I've switched banks before because of it. They don't care.

>>toasta+r51
I'm totally with you. Not using banking apps - just sites. Also stopped buying CPUs with DRM-on-chip. It's pretty crazy what they're doing now instead of just "computing machines" (