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   PublicLewdness (publiclewdness@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 09:25:02 JST PublicLewdness
   Vikings has not only improved the base hardware that their refurbished Lenovo X200 laptop comes with but have lowered the price as well ! If you're looking for a privacy focussed laptop they're a good choice. Their X200 uses Libreboot for the BIOS so that means on top of an open source BIOS you get the Intel ME removed. It will also work with FLOSS distros and the libre kernel. Vikings offers a good amount of customizable options regarding storage; keyboard; battery; and more.
   
   https://store.vikings.net/en/x200-ryf-certfied
   
   #linux #foss #libreboot #privacy #vikings
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     Charliebrownau (charliebrownau@pieville.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 09:25:43 JST Charliebrownau

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     @PublicLewdness Looks good if your in USA or EU

     otherwise its still cheaper in AU+NZ+JP to source it ourself and mod it

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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 09:25:43 JST 寮

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     @charliebrownau @PublicLewdness IntHell ME didn't exist yet when the X200 came out.
     They only introduced it with their i-series processors.
     Anything with Core 2 Duo doesn't have it.
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     Charliebrownau (charliebrownau@pieville.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 11:12:33 JST Charliebrownau

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     @ryo @PublicLewdness

     From memory it was around the Intel 915 or just above it chipset

     I hope RISC V doesn't have its own version

     Also surprising that all this Chinese stuff doesn't use open firmware instead of using copyright stuff

     Shows how broken even the Chinese tech system is

     They seem to do a good job with the aftermarket gpus and motherboards from recycled parts

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     PublicLewdness (publiclewdness@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 11:21:50 JST PublicLewdness

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     • Charliebrownau
     @ryo @charliebrownau
     
     https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
     
     "Introduced in June 2006 in Intel’s 965 Express Chipset Family of (Graphics and) Memory Controller Hubs, or (G)MCHs, and the ICH8 I/O Controller Family, the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate computing environment physically located in the (G)MCH chip. In Q3 2009, the first generation of Intel Core i3/i5/i7 (Nehalem) CPUs and the 5 Series Chipset family of Platform Controller Hubs, or PCHs, brought a more tightly integrated ME (now at version 6.0) inside the PCH chip, which itself replaced the ICH. Thus, the ME is present on all Intel desktop, mobile (laptop), and server systems since mid 2006."
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     Charliebrownau (charliebrownau@pieville.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 11:22:26 JST Charliebrownau

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     @PublicLewdness @ryo

     Ahh cheers
     Must of been i915 the last non ime one then

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     THOT POLICE (s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 11:31:14 JST THOT POLICE

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     • Charliebrownau
     @charliebrownau @ryo @PublicLewdness that's a very different sector than new product introduction. I've got my eye on some chinese cpus and there was a chinese video card released recently that's getting around 15% of the performance of an nvidia 3060, the real test will be whether or not they can iterate on these designs. The Russians had great 8080 cpus too but were unable to innovate and unable to keep their manufacturing lines online
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