Since I don't see the normal reply to this completely predictable "you can just disable the hardware," I'll drop a TL;DR version of it:
No you can't, not without voiding your warranty.
No you can't, not without voiding your warranty.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty... says you can only void a warranty if the modification caused the problem. So no.