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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Ubuntu was just what Lenovo puts by default. Caused me almost heart attack 😀 Installing Fedora 41
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Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org

Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) fedora

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@jarkko Some Lenovo laptops offer Fedora as a preload option. If there is one that you want or bought that doesn't, then please give feedback to let them know you want Fedora there too! 😃

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@Conan_Kudo i don’t mind reinstall as long as it is possible. I was worried first that it would be a custom corp image first. It is just default install and no encryption so you can deduce from that it is not enforced.
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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
Ubuntu and Fedora are the two Lenovo's vendor supported Linux distros they have, but Ubuntu is available on more models.

It's not a bad idea to keep the pre installed option in a small partition, it has special engineering done to get the model certifiedand it's good to use as a reference of "is this a hw or sw issue" when using something else instead. And you might get something useful out of it like fingerprint driver blobs to your main OS.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@timojyrinki yea i thought it was some corp thing. I don’t care what Lenovo does 😀
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@timojyrinki in-tree drivers only blobs go to linux-firmware
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@timojyrinki authentication is advicable to never use if the handshake is not transparent. Don’t use it. The lack of proprietary blob addresses a vulnerability.
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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
In case of the fingerprint reader example, kernel drivers are open but in at least one 3y+ case there's a libfprint (which is open source) library plugin for interacting. I'd hope more recent fingerprint devices would be better.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@timojyrinki So the way I think biometrics authentication is that it is fancy obfuscated plain text :-) so i don't fully trust it. short passwords with dictionary attack protection and physical presence identification is IMHO best we know today.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@timojyrinki i.e. yubikey pretty much nails it
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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
I prefer fingerprint to typing my password in a cafe, but sure there are better options as well.

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