@charlie_root >No one has ever concretely proven the Intel ME does anything malicious
No-one has ever concretely proven that the me doesn't do anything malicious either.

Software being proprietary is maliciousness in the purest form.

>Coreboot machines do actually brick and have issues.
Please advise me of any failures you have heard of that wasn't due to hardware failure.

>they we're unable to run BSD's properly
Why would I want to run proprietary software?

>secretly they only cared about the Linux kernel.
Yes, free software developers only really care about supporting the only 100% free system available (GNU/Linux-libre), who would have thought?

>the Thinkpad is pretty irrelevant in 2023
It's a laptop, I don't get how "relevancy" or "irrelevancy" even applies to it.

I typically use my KGPE-D16s more even so.

>you're basically a fringe personality these days.
Freedom enjoying was always a fringe personality in the whole history of humanity and always will be.