i mean there’s a possibility of malware hiding in usb peripherals since they have flash, and for thinkpads I think the camera, touchpad, smartcard reader are usually usb. If they hypothetically acted as usb mice/keyboards/network adapters/display devices, they could possibly infect your system ig

malware living on the bios rom could possibly live through an internal bios flash (normal “update firmware” thing in the bios or things like ivyrain) if it somehow manages to manipulate that process.

however, it is always overwritten by an external bios flash (using a raspberry pi or something using flashrom), because then you’re directly communicating with the flash chip. (if you suspect that the flash chip has been replaced with a malicious one you’re probably a bit schizo)

one thing is though is that the flash on the embedded controller is left untouched in most operations like this, so it could possibly harbor malware, but the only thing that could possibly do is make your laptop unusable or die randomly. It can’t really affect the software running on it i’d think. What you’d want to do if you’re really schizo and suspect your EC is infected is to externally flash lenovo firmware and use something like this to update the EC before externally flashing Heads.

the chain of trust for your installer USB would be something you can’t really avoid though, just use the most trustworthy computer you have

also if they go below the min voltage it won’t be safe (and it’ll usually not allow you) to charge it back up

with the induction coil thing, it NEEDS to boot into a Linux partition that boots into RAM just to play the ElectroBOOM fleming’s right hand rule song at full volume while the coil runs

unfortunately there’s no ElectroBOOM song about the right hand coil rule or electromagnetic induction

I hated going through 5a the first time, it made me want to quit playing the game too (out of fear/frustration/feelings of futility) but I think it’s intentional given what the chapter is about, and to that end it’s done really fucking well.

Replaying the game for speedruns and stuff though, 5a is really fun (esp with wavedashing)

as for making adversaries make ridiculous mistakes, making the power button short out the battery permanently and wiring up another button for the power instead would be a hilarious security measure

which is your favourite in the album? 2a, 5b and 6a are my favourites

so all the windows are open?

Linux on the other hand gained a lot of exp()

chromium is still ‘libre’ though, so I don’t think that’s enough

“chrome was hogging up my ram” is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person’s decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it’s hilarious

does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?

the fuse popped, right?

i mean it’s in the name:
FEDiverse

free and open not free open

purple 🟣

fellow noun->verb user :)

helix superiority however.

wow that sounds so handy, thanks

people won’t follow you to the new platform if you seem dumb

you could make 4 Google accounts and compress the data into 4 encrypted files, and upload them each to their Google account (they have 25gb max)