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#BIOS.

Everything tagged BIOS, wherever it's filed, newest first.

Linux Mint on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3

My everyday laptop is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 running Linux Mint. Why that pairing, how Dropbox fits in, and the few things worth setting up on day one.

Turn on Dell's Password Bypass so patch reboots don't sit at a power-on password prompt all night, then turn it back off when you're done.

Put a BIOS admin password on new Dells, or change the old one across the fleet, with both passwords handed over at runtime.

Clear the BIOS setup password on Dell PCs and see exactly what changed, with the password supplied at runtime instead of sitting in a package.

Remove the internal drive password from Dell PCs with Dell's PowerShell provider, without ever writing the password into a script or package.