under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot

What’s the first thing under the “Secure boot” section? The section that it automatically scrolls to when clicking my link?

Well the website (and the guy maintaing it) is pretty old. I think the blog posts reach back till Windows Vista. The guy itself wrote some books about Win95 so he has some experience.

The site is quite popular in Germany and the information is usually good summarized and helpful IMHO.

Anyway as always I recommend an adblocker when using the internet.

It’s so secure that the first thing under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot is Secure boot criticism

Yes this is a real, I’m not joking.

You’re in linuxmemes did you not expect a meme? xD

Also: Yes it’s a meme based on a true story (see the other comments for more details)

The meme itself is based on https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/historical-battle-shitposts-decisive-victory

AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.

Usually these batteries hold for years. I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.

However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren’t designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032. And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-

Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn’t boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery…

How many times did they try to do this now?

It kind of feels like a kids cartoon now, where the bad guys constantly fail every episode.

Yes? Did you?

Example:

AVIF

AVIF is an image format developed by the Alliance for Open Media. AVIF was designed by the foundation to make up for the shortcomings of other image codecs, including PNG, GIF, and WebP.

AVIF is generally smaller in size than both WebP and PNG. AVIF supports animation while PNG does not.

Although I couldn’t find any source about the Falklands, the same definetly happend in New Zealand:

• https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n11734/pdf/04_howitt.pdf
• https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21501-boiled-to-death-penguins-are-back-from-the-brink/

So I think it’s very likely that it also happend at the opposite side of Antarctica.

They should have let it die because nearly everything else is nowadays somehow better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG#Comparison_with_other_file_formats

Would be funny to know how the supposed 14TWh savings compare to the cost required to introduce/maintain these labels. And by costs I mean overall costs with everything related to it.

Recent IUCN Red List assessments for North American fireflies have identified species with heightened extinction risk in the US, with 18 taxa categorized as threatened with extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly#cite_ref-40

… optimise the use and recycling of critical raw materials

Does anyone have an idea how this helps with recycling?

They have 5 models listed for Google

Touché. However this doesn’t change the fact that the interface is absolutely useless.

When I’m searching for Google I just get the model ids:

• GUR25
• GEC77
• GZC4K
• GTF7P
• G6GPR

None of these phones have the word “Pixel” anywhere and I have to look the market name up on a 3rd party website.

It’s hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.

Seriously? Maybe they should include the unit of measurement or just print two extra zeros.

Again these points just highlight that this utterly unusable for a normal user.

Whilst I get the idea the implementation is currently unusable:

So I filtered for “Battery user-replacable” and found 117 smartphones (out of ~500). This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.

It lacks a lot of phone models. I couldn’t find any Google Pixel or Fairphone.

The “Battery endurance in cycles” (number of charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80 % of its rated capacity) attribute is completely broken: It never seems to exceed 15? I had phones for years that withstood hundreds/thousands of battery cycles and the battery still nearly behaved like it’s new and you’re telling me the maximum number is 15??? Did you guys just stop testing after 15?

Also “with regard to energy labelling” what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones “Repeated free fall reliability” or IP protection inside there?

The whole thing looks way to intransparent and useless for the average phone buyer and definetly needs some improvement…

General labelling about repairability/phone lifetime (e.g. receives updates for X years, replacement parts are avilable for X years, can install another OS, can replace battery without external tools, etc) without a overall score that merges all aspects would be a lot better and useful IMHO.

Have you had a look at your BIOS into the “Fan step up/down time” options?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moth-lamp

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai's_model

Last month I tried to unlock a Motorola phone. Guess what: There is no option to unlock the bootloader because it’s one of the models that can’t.

The year before a Huawei phone: I had to disassemble half the device to shortcircut something while running a custom made software on the PC.

Yeah now try to get an average user doing this… good luck.

And I’m not even scratching the part where some of your devices hardware is not working properly because the closed source firmware is not available.

A quick look at which recent phones (since 2022) can install LineageOS: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ Just 35 phones (Pixels exluded), including only a single Samsung phone!

Now compare that to installing Windows/Linux on a PC where you literally plugin a USB and hit install…