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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+(OP)
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" (

>>IYasha+6t2
Unfortunately with the DRM situation, the benefits are much outweighing the cost. The speed gains and compatibility I'd get let me do a lot more things. I can use these better CPUs to compile a lot faster :|

The banks not much better. All banks in my country have dated late 90s-looking websites with not even UTF-8 encoding (so you can't send an email with a comma). They are barely usable on desktop. I'd have to make my own client or at least whip up a lot of magic CSS to get it to be mobile-friendly and would even still need to include QR code scanning as it is so ubiquitous that no one would let me fiddle with adding their account numbers.