I was helping a friend replacing the battery and thermal paste on his System 76 laptop. Never own one before but I notice it runs a special BIOS version, Coreboot. It turns out there are Coreboot and Lireboot. .These help to boot really fast though.

Anyway, I notice there are no password BIOS lock like on Lenovo. How would this protect against someone plug a USB in and just wipe my drive? On Lenovo you can set a supervisor / boot passwords, and you can remove USB drives from the boot list.

  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    They don’t seem to care if your laptop is stolen and the drive is wiped.

    Even if they did care, what could they do about it? The thief could remove the drive and wipe it with their own computer, or even just physically destroy the thing. The only point of a BIOS password is to make the laptop a pain for a thief to resell.