Why, instead of safely entering a BIOS setup, does the cell phone brick when installing the Custom ROM wrongly? Wouldn’t this protection be better for users? I mean, this could be done through ADB.

Also, do you think it’s possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

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    Bios died out around 2010

    My Acer Predator from 2019: “I’m about to blow this man’s mind”

    A thin client from Asus circa 09? Uefi, no problem. A 3k Acer gaming laptop from 19? We can’t fit something so cutting-edge into the budget!

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Your machine has an EFI.

      If your machine shipped with windows 8 or above (starting in like 2012) it came with an EFI. You can use the legacy compatibility mode still in all motherboards. Finally starting some time soon they might be dropping legacy bios compatibility mode. But if your machine can boot from an NVME SSD it’s got an EFI.