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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 18:49:12 JST SuperDicq

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   @Relected@shitposter.club >I use a core2duo from 2008 because all modern cpu's are backdoored by intel's ME and amd's PSP.
   
   That's it? That's the bottom of the iceberg? I'm already doing that.

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     @wrongthink >But how am I going to run my games?!
     By compiling the free software games to POWER9?
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     @SuperDicq @Relected @sallyNULL

     Not sure if that question was directed at me, in confusion.

     I think, and I’m basing this off of the way I used to be years ago, it is rooted in people’s FOMO of gaming. It comes down to “But how am I going to run my games?!” But when you begin to go inward and examine that mentality it becomes hard to ignore that making such decisions based off of game availability ultimately puts one under the thumb of those who decide what to compile their games for and where to release them through.

     Anyway, running a ppc system forces one to be very disciplined about what you decide to install and run. When the possibility of simply downloading a pre-compiled binary from somewhere on the web is no option, you find the answer is often to compile yourself (e.g. enforced open source 😎 ).

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     @wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo @sallyNULL@gleasonator.com @Relected@shitposter.club I mean yeah the single socket boards are cheaper but still outside of what I am able to afford currently, I still have to make do with my trusty Asus KCMA D8.
     
     I have no idea why you want to emulate amd64 on those boards. Why not just run stuff on ppc64el?

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     @SuperDicq @Relected Nah, the bottom would be spending 8,000 bucks in a POWER9 motherboard with fully free and auditable firmware, and daily driving on a VM emulating a free implementation of amd64.
     
     https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B02/intro.html
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     @sallyNULL @Relected

     Ew, why would you do all that only to virtualize a mess of an ISA?

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     The single socket boards are cheaper and even though they aren’t “certified” yet by RYF, they are fully free (in fact, more so than the dual socket boards factoring for the SATA controller IIRC).