Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 day agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-down1message-squareHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 day agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agohere in south america they don’t seem to be locking most of them. granted, not all phones have an active developer porting an os to it.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoMean, so it’s a regional thing. But why do they lock in US and Europe?
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoi know us carriers dont like bootloader unlocking. not sure about europe.
here in south america they don’t seem to be locking most of them.
granted, not all phones have an active developer porting an os to it.
Mean, so it’s a regional thing. But why do they lock in US and Europe?
i know us carriers dont like bootloader unlocking. not sure about europe.