Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

Because by law in certain countries, homosexuality is persona non grata, and a filter needs to be there to legally operate in such countries.

Stage 1 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

As they fucking should. Identity theft is no joke.

Danger Will Robinson! Do NOT fuck with company hardware!

You are going to potentially set off a shit ton of alarm bells, and risk your job, by even attempting this.

First of all, almost all such devices come with a BIOS lock. You'd need to get the password before you could even begin this (again, do not do it!)

Secondly, they'll be able to tell something is up from the foreign UEFI entries.

Thirdly, if that doesn't expose you, Intel IME will. Doesn't matter what operating system you're running.

And you're going to create some royal fucking headaches for a lot of people in your company.

Let's start with security. Remember when I said you'll set off alarm bells? Well, I mean some mother fucking alarm bells. Security will have a god damn aneurysm over this, and they will believe you may be doing this to bypass security, possibly for nefarious reasons. A foreign hard drive with its own OS looks shady as shit.

Then there's the regular tech people. You're going to cause various headaches for them too. Not least because under many service agreements, the company itself may not be authorised to open up the workstations themselves. Many workplaces rent their workstations nowadays, and it is not uncommon to see this language in their SLAs.

Then there's the fact that the OS image on the original drive potentially cannot be trusted any more, so they have to wipe the fucker clean and do a fresh image install.

TL;DR, You are giving your company several solid reasons to fire you for cause by doing this.

It is about being able to be openly gay/bi. In many cultures, being open and proud about being LGBT is something many LGBT people can only dream of.

To me, this reads like the end of a character arc, where the MC has had to repress their LGBT identity for years before walking the path towards finally embracing it. That last panel would be a sweet spot to give the reader a chance to think about how far the character has come.

That pedos shouldn't be subject to extra-legal punishments. Think being lynched and shit. I also don't think they should be getting their own special cases in the law beyond those with a clear purpose of preventing reoffending.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are pure scum.

But things we allow on the basis of the accused being a pedo or terrorist have a habit of spilling over and affecting the general population. A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

I mean if it was literally any other CEO, especially one without a majority share in the company, they'd be out on third strike. Elon is on strike 6

Are you...are you fucking serious?

Jesus was literally all about that peace stuff. What fucking Bible is he reading from exactly?!

Jesus fucking Christ! This is all horrific but I nearly missed that part. 15 years for taking a substance that could endanger the baby (no need to prove that it has)

They are "acting accordingly" by performing an ethnic cleansing. How disgustingly ironic.

You could, but what makes Steam Deck special is that it's SteamOS is built specifically for that hardware, enabling functions you wouldn't normally see in gaming PC hardware.