@Suiseiseki

Intel ME paranoia has always been founded on hearsay. No one has ever concretely proven the Intel ME does anything malicious, outside of "it's proprietary so we will just assume malice" argument.

Coreboot machines do actually brick and have issues. Noticeably they we're unable to run BSD's properly for at least 5 years after their creation. You might write this off as a GNUtard, but it meant something to a lot of people at the time. Especially since Core/Libre boots advertised themselves as something "Open Source" friendly. When secretly they only cared about the Linux kernel.

Guess what, the Thinkpad is pretty irrelevant in 2023, good luck with your cause but you're basically a fringe personality these days.