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It seems that the clevo boot guard, and possibly other signing keys have been shared regularly on their official site, which should allow for coreboot/dasharo/system76 ports to work with a wider variety of their machines.

The OP in the linked thread has not fully fleshed out the process, but in theory, once you can use the keys to build an image disabling boot guard - level 0, it should in theory then leave the machine open to being reflashed, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Clevo is like the 3rd largest manufacturer, and is sold as a number of names - XMG, Asus, HP, Alienware, System76, NovaCustom, Tuxedo, Eurocom, and many more...a lot of laptops they make are just ODM badged.

Gamestop isn't really just games anymore; even if they closed all brick and mortar shops and sold nothing they'd still be green on paper because of the liquid assets they hold.

The stock market and business of it never do make sense because the whole thing is rigged.

You didn't really cover any fundamentals here. The business itself is changing and the investors generally are buying into Ryan Cohen, not Gamestop at face value, "MOASS" or not.

They have $4 billion in liquid assets, which if they desired would allow them to purchase new businesses to roll into their model or buy back all of the existing free float shares left.

No debts except a low interest covid loan from France.

They are branching out and selling consoles, PC gaming gear, board/card games, and sports cards in addition, amongst other things.

While you're right about a lot of what you say with digital downloads and such, you don't paint the full picture, but you can't be blamed because the Jim Cramers and hedgefunds of the world don't want people to know any of these facts.

Do some digging and you can find all this to confirm, and a lot more. r/superstonk is cultlike but they do have good fundamental research.

Depends on who the upstream provider is. Having a pihole or opnsense with dnscrypt and/or unbound setup is best.

The wait time is what kept me from ordering one, actually. I love everything they're doing but don't want to get stuck like I did when I bought into the kickstarter for the purism librem5...which sits in it's box on my shelf...

I realize all this...

But my HP Spectre died (I know, don't laugh) - 8th gen i7. It was...fine...I almost finished porting coreboot but the EC init I never could get working right.

That said the Serval WS and other more premium builds, while clevos, are repairable, supported, and have parts and manuals available. I realize I could buy a clevo or get a clevo from Tuxedo (and pay 5k if I want one with a mech keyboard and a 4090 inside) but then determining if the Sys76 coreboot and ec firmwares would work on it would be a whole other journey that I'm not really interested in right now.

With most manufacturers, even if they have longevity, you're still stuck most of the time figuring stuff out on your own and buying from China or Ebay to repair when something breaks...at least System76 supports their products fully and provides repair guides.

I assume you've seen those strange retrofit motherboards from China? I forget the name. I know one a few years ago got posted here after the owner ported Coreboot to it.

Your model makes sense, at least for situations like yours...

I got the serval because it includes a 4070 8gb...so graphics and battery life aren't really a concern to me...I usually am plugged in. I also trust AMD more but they haven't been very forthcoming on the PSP.

In college, sure - they actually started us on C/C++ and then had us work in ASM for discrete math...

But in middle and high school now I believe they teach...whatever the teacher wants. So a lot of js, python, vb...

Unless you use pyc it's only as compiled if you count php as compiled. Just in time bytecode compilation does not a compiled language make.

I went "mobile workstation" this time around and so I have sockets again, migrating from a desktop and my dead ultrabook...

I can live with having ~1hr battery life (which I can push further anyway) with the way I operate and work...

Everyone I guess has different priorities. My company went remote so I don't have to be in an office or flying around all the time anymore, so I need less battery power.

In addition the starlabs machines and tuxedo machines are ridiculous in terms of quality, even going as far as using cherry switches on their keyboards now...in the models well beyond my price point.

I realize everyone hates on clevo but it's only the lower end models that really suffer "quality" issues.