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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 September 2019, 23:46:40

Title: Factory Image [Conspiracy]
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 September 2019, 23:46:40

So, wit all the spyn' going on.

If Dell wanted to KEEP everyone in their circle while preventing clean system builds, HOW would they achieve this.

BY Ensuring that certain drivers/ software problems exist on their PCs whenever a clean installation occurs.

Just little things become broken.   Things I've encountered in the past few days, Wake from sleep broken, wake from hibernation broken, fan controls not working, ethernet hang.

This would Lulll the majority of the customers back to the flock pen, to reload and use Dell's factory image wit all their spy toolz..

(https://i.imgur.com/SIzjGPt.gif)

Thoughts ?,  U guys think they pebble these problems on purpose ?

Title: Re: Factory Image [Conspiracy]
Post by: dingusxmcgee on Sun, 22 September 2019, 07:08:16

Probably.

Title: Re: Factory Image [Conspiracy]
Post by: Sintpinty on Sun, 22 September 2019, 07:09:05

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 21 September 2019, 23:46:40

So, wit all the spyn' going on.

If Dell wanted to KEEP everyone in their circle while preventing clean system builds, HOW would they achieve this.

BY Ensuring that certain drivers/ software problems exist on their PCs whenever a clean installation occurs.

Just little things become broken.   Things I've encountered in the past few days, Wake from sleep broken, wake from hibernation broken, fan controls not working, ethernet hang.

This would Lulll the majority of the customers back to the flock pen, to reload and use Dell's factory image wit all their spy toolz..

Show Image

(https://i.imgur.com/SIzjGPt.gif)

Thoughts ?,  U guys think they pebble these problems on purpose ?

Yep... i think so.. Most companies are "anti linux" so that's probably your problem

Title: Re: Factory Image [Conspiracy]
Post by: suicidal_orange on Sun, 22 September 2019, 14:21:19

While in theory it wouldn't surprise me I do wonder how they could do it.  If things were broken from day one they could have tweaked the hardware to be slightly abnormal and only included perfect drivers in their image but drivers don't know/care about time passing and in a clean install they wouldn't have anything running in the background to make changes so what would be the trigger?

Maybe there's a reason that laptop was cheap...