The settings on KDE show this info about my computer after buying a used motherboard. Apparently it came from a prebuilt, though it is a standard ASUS board. Where does this branding come from and is it possible to remove it?

The branding also shows in inxi:

Machine: Type: Desktop System: PC Specialist product: Tornado R7S v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 1744753 UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4402 date: 12/13/2023

  • TurboWafflz
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    161 year ago

    Did you buy your motherboard used? I wonder if it came out of that system and the builder was somehow able to change the DMI information

  • From the system’s DMI. You can check it yourself with dmidecode. Those values are largely unchangeable, and those that are, will probably require a tool from the vendor to change, which are usually for internal use only within their company.

    • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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      121 year ago

      Are just adding a ‘k’ to regular words like they with ‘quantum’ in Ant-Man: Quantumania?

      • Strit
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        51 year ago

        kinfocenter is an application in Plasma where you can see all kinds of information about your system. So no, they are not just adding k to random words like quantum in Ant-man. :)

        • Tippon
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          31 year ago

          So they didn’t just add a k to infocenter? ;)

          • Strit
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            11 year ago

            The poster did not, no. Plasma had a habit, back in the day, of doing that, but not for a while now.

        • @dan@upvote.au
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          KDE was originally called “Kool Desktop Environment” until they renamed it, first to “K Desktop Environment” then to just “KDE”.

          It was the first Linux desktop environment that tried to make all its apps look consistent. Before KDE, Linux UI apps were very inconsistent, each one using whatever UI toolkit it wanted. They likely named all of them with a K to make the naming somewhat consistent too.

          Gtk was released two years later, originally only used in GIMP (Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”) and it took a while for other desktop environments to have a consistent look and feel like KDE did.

          • Psychadelligoat
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            Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”

            The “GNUs Not Unix Image Manipulation ToolKit” becomes Gtk (fucking autocorrect)

            Naming shit on Linux is so fun

  • @SteveTech@programming.dev
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    11 year ago

    You might be able to flash the retail BIOS to remove the OEM stuff, but often if it’s running a specific OEM BIOS it’ll block you from flashing a retail version.