this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Can’t you just install bit defender? It’s just that one chip on the board that was added about 10 yrs ago to prevent hackers using that desktop tunnel on the elderly. So dumb that they had to promote large scale computer waste over a piece of hardware smaller than a thumb drive.
It's part of the design. You think their partners weren't ecstatic about them implementing something like this, that has a very easy work around that they aren't advertising‽