Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux · edit-22 months agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1164arrow-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 · edit-22 months agomessage-square56fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agolocked bootloaders are still a thing mostly on the US. over here having them locked is the exception, not the norm.
minus-squareMonkderViertelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 months agoWhat? At least two years ago, all had locked bootloaders and half of the vendors wouldn’t let you unlock it. “Here” being central europe.
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months 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-squareMonkderViertelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoMean, so it’s a regional thing. But why do they lock in US and Europe?
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoi know us carriers dont like bootloader unlocking. not sure about europe.
locked bootloaders are still a thing mostly on the US.
over here having them locked is the exception, not the norm.
What? At least two years ago, all had locked bootloaders and half of the vendors wouldn’t let you unlock it. “Here” being central 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.