>>6589soy
>>6591no, i actually do important work on my computer, but i also play videogames and shitpost on the sharty
ironically, shitposting on the sharty is the heaviest task i do, because it requires a fucking web browser.
>durr hurr tranny cope and made up bullshitthis burned in "firmware" is really just a bunch of opcodes telling the chip what to do, its less than a kb
the proprietary drivers/firmwares that are uploaded to intel cards are multiple kbs, and sometimes even a meg or so in size, who knows what theyre doing, also you get updated backdoors rather than ancient less advanced ones that were burned into chips at a chink factory 20 years ago.
>purism is freeits not, i dont even think the librem 5 is ryf certified
pureOS is, but the librem piece of garbage merely shoved proprietary blobs from the kernel onto other flash chips, and its R/W, just RO to the user because only (((OEMs))) should flash firmware, right?
>FSFs ignorance towards proprietary ec firmwarewhere did they ignore it?
its not nearly as problematic as proprietary hard drive firmware or wifi card firmware/drivers
>pre configured thinkpadsbrainlet retards are good money printers, im telling hundreds of people on the internet to buy old thinkpads and libreboot them by themselves so the prices skyrocket and i can finally sell my 200 hoarded thinkpads for maximized profit
>keeping the ati video cardyou cant just remove it kek, but i highly doubt libreboot actually kept proprietary ati blobs in there if they werent absolutely required for boot
the old policy was simply not supporting any proprietary shit, if it doesnt boot without a single blob its not supported. francis got tired of this and created osboot, but eventually merged it into libreboot and made libreboot proprietary.
now we have proprietary libreboot roms, and even the ones for XX00/T60/X60 contain ucode updates by default.
https://libreboot.org/news/microcode.html2 days ago he announced no-ucode roms, which is a good thing
im surprised that he is making good decisions and doesn't tell people what to do and not to do, its very non-tranny behavior.
>not actually removing the MEsauce?
i know that osboot and the new libreboot only "disables" the ME on intel chipsets for i-anything CPUs (anything past core 2 aka GM45/cantiga and earlier), but those were never and will never be RYF certified
>proprietary ucode is very dangerous to not handle properlyyou handle it properly by getting rid of it, imagine wanting updated "mitigations" and new backdoors that make your cpu 20% slower and only makes it more inconvenient for script kiddies to gain root access
x86 is backdoored anyway, if you run something on ring 3 you have to assume that it finds its way to ring 0 if it really wants to.
you can literally echo shit into your .bashrc and alias it to sudo/doas/su/whatever to grab your password and install a rootkit.
if you run proprietary software you get backdoored either way, no "sandboxing" or ""mitigations"" will fix that. all they do is waste performance and cause problems.
>one could argue buying anything related to "free software" and open source in general is useless but its clearly not. open sores is useless, and 90% of all those "freedom respecting" memes are half assed broken overpriced hacks to meet the RYF criteria
thanks but i'll rather buy 20$ thinkpads from ebay, than buying 2000$ "freedompads" from some freetard website ran by a tranny who merely installed libreboot and slapped his own sticker over the IBM/Lenovo one to 'rebrand' it
the same goes for wifi cards, there are 40$ wifi cards sold by freetards, while you can pick the exact same thing up for 2-5$ on ebay.