I want a computer that I own

Re:I want a computer that I own by boring_twenties on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:02PM (#26395298)

> Owning my computer is still relatively possible.

Sorry to burst your bubble, https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme

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Re:I want a computer that I own by rouzh on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:55AM (#26396172)

Happy to deflect your bursting! :)

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html

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Re:I want a computer that I own by amatecha on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:26AM (#26396951)

Excellent to see - thanks for sharing these!

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Re:I want a computer that I own by boring_twenties on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:11PM (#26401628)

Thanks!

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Re:I want a computer that I own by HideousKojima on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:16AM (#26395641)

https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/

Purism was able to completely disable Intel's ME

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Re:I want a computer that I own by boring_twenties on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:19PM (#26401737)

No? Your link says nothing about "completely," you just made that up. What it does say is that they remove the "nonessential" bits, plus flip the HAP bit. You can do both of these things yourself with me_cleaner, but it's not good enough. Exploitable vulnerabilities have been found in the bits that cannot be removed.

edit: E.g. https://nitter.dark.fail/rootkovska/status/93845887552266649...

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Re:I want a computer that I own by fsflover on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:49AM (#26396718)

Not completely, but to a large extent: https://puri.sm/learn/software-freedom-in-perspective/

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Re:I want a computer that I own by b0tzzzzzzman on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:13AM (#26395962)

Great stuff. First time I flashed a chip with SPI or started learning and playing with surface mount chips. Old ThinkPad are still very capable and empowering if you like playing with software and hardware.

Coreboot is great as well, but a bit different.

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