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m4iler the Saboteur :debian: :t_blink: 9mo ago

I had the weirdest dream. Maybe thanks to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpsuydtqtnvsuajvjfgyytgqmr2lnt6nc8rfyr7qx0mfga9rhuspqu3k88n, but I'll tell you my tale.

I was with my wife and family in a resort/zoo in a forest, kinda tropical, and I was just relaxing. Suddenly, my sister tells me she just met Richard Stallman and that he's got a conference here.

I told her to let me know when he was going away and got an idea: I really wanted my T480 to be signed by RMS as a "freedom-respecting laptop."

The issue was that my OS was not FSF-approved, so I was stressing about it, trying to fool RMS into signing it even though I knew it was not 100% okay.

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Test_Alexander 9mo ago

It is not only about OS. Also the firmware(the motherboard ROM). the t480 is spooky. use t400/x200

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

Before Nehalem (ME version 6, 2008/2009) the ME firmware could be removed completely from the flash chip by setting a couple of bits inside the flash descriptor, effectively disabling it.

Starting from Nehalem the Intel ME firmware can't be removed anymore: without a valid firmware the PC shuts off forcefully after 30 minutes, probably as an attempt to enforce the Intel Anti-Theft policies.