You forgot “Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad” on tech paranoid

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uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot

I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.

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I find most laptops are well supported about a year after their release.

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whats librebooted mean

Replacing the bootloader with a FOSS bootloader called LibreBoot

It’s an open source bios. There are only builds for a certain few laptops and it involves opening it up and flashing the bios chip

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why would you even do that, forgive my ignorance

If you want to disable Intel Management Engine, the always-on backdoor built into every Intel CPU and/or want as much software as possible on your machine to be FOSS

Also it boots much faster than most stock bios.

Is there a similar issue with AMD?

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Not that I know of, AMD is also soon going to make their own FOSS bios with OpenSIL so they’re generally the better option if you’re a privacy/libre software junkie.

As far as I know, OpenSIL stands for Open Silicon Initialization Library, and handles only the hardware initialisation part of the boot process. It may still require loading binary blobs like the Platform Security Processor (PSP), which is AMD’s version of Intel Management Engine

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PSP is not the same thing as IME. Not even close. PSP doesn’t even have network access, much less remote computer control like the IME. Still proprietary, but if OpenSIL allows you to turn it off then we might actually be able to run a fully 100% libre modern desktop computer which is honestly pretty awesome.

Yes, it is called AMD PSP

What’s the deal with Play Station Portable?

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