[u-u] How to brick your laptop

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:51:32 -0500
arocker at Vex.Net wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/02/delete_efivars_linux/
> 
> A somewhat implausible scenario, but it's clearly happened.

I'm having a hard time believing this one.  Linux may have some silly
designs but if you boot up a CD then what's on the disk can't matter
can it?  A brand new drive also does not have those files but you can
still install an OS on it.

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