>>7301>only used on business and embedded computersused by the user you mean, but it's still present (and running in the backgronud 24/7) on all consoomer devices made after 2006, no matter how shitty it is
there are literal fucking netbooks without ethernet ports that have the ME on their chipset, the CPU will refuse to boot or shut down after 30 minutes without it.
just use a kvm or linuxboot like a sane person if you manage enterprise servers.
if you don't need the ME, remove it.
libreboot exists for old boards and you can completely remove it on pre-2008 hardware, and for anything past 2008 you can use me_cleaner to get rid of most shit, leaving a ~70kb stub behind (which is still proprietary)