Thinkpad General

91%. 7.0 out of 7.7GB

And seriously? I thought a mobile meme processor should be expected to have problems. For reference though we're talking about 3 windows of 10-15 tabs that I have open in addition to Discord, Pycharm IDE, spotify, evernote, and a bunch of background shit

Well it sounds like you'd benefit from adding more ram to your laptop then.

or "installing a linux distro than can manage memory better than Windows" is what half of the neckbeards here will tell you.

Cool, that's sorta what I thought. I found the identical module to the one preinstalled on ebay for $40, guess I'll make haste with that

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I got 500 euros of store credit, what should I grab?

what is libreboot? should I care about it? (fyi I don't own a thinkpad yet and when I do I play to run arch on it)

Well, I'm happy enough with my t430

>no /tpg/ in thread title or description
Fuck you, OP. I had to explicitly search for "thinkpad general" rather than just "tpg" like I'm used to.

>what is libreboot?
Fully free firmware that you can use instead of your BIOS if your machine is compatible.
>should I care about it?
If you care about free software, or are scared about Intel ME or AMD PSP, then you should.

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it's coreboot with tranny bits
no, you shouldn't care
stick to coreboot and remove ME with ME_cleaner, if possible upgrade to a CPU without AMT/"Anti-theft" features/vPro/VT-d(!=VT-x)
if you are going to harvest child porn whilst preparing a nuclear attack against the USA, remove proprietary blobs within coreboot as much as possible (some EC firmware can't be replaced, dgpu generally won't work, use the Intel Native Raminit it parity for your machine is close enough); all of this will still be useless if you don't air gap and emi-shield your device, and still there are quite a few side channels attacks left possible

OwO I have a T530 and it comes with a 7mm drive, even though there's lots of room. Is a 9mm drive compatible?

Is the T60 stuck on 32bit linux or can I use 64bit?

>remove ME with ME_cleaner
Technically you merely "neuter" ME to some extent, as me_cleaner just removes some parts of the blob that aren't necessary to keep the machine running for longer than 30 minutes. Neutered or not, you're dealing with an encrypted blob which does things you don't know about.

>Intel ME is just hanging out, waiting for god knows what sort of commands on undocumented ports
>can be hacked remotely, ring -1 privileges, you'd never have any clue it's happening
>"Yeah but your thinkpad is still vulnerable to CIA glow-in-the-darks listening to your keyboard clicks, so why bother?"

Are you fucking insane? If you have to, get a pi and an SOIC8 clip and GET THAT SHIT OUT OF THERE!

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that dude looks like engineering explained

If that doesn't work try booting into a live Linux environment to confirm it works there.

nigger they can literally listen to your cpu ram and track you that way
tranny boot wont save you

What is the Intel Boot Manager fucking shit that takes its sweet time running on reboot?

As far as I can tell it does nothing of importance and now that I've recently plugged an ethernet cable into the dock, it apparently makes itself a hot cup of tea and spends a good minute or two checking some DHCP settings or some shit.

That, along with GRUB makes it take like 5 minutes just to boot into the OS. Can I turn this shit off? Do I need it?

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Boot some GNU/Linux distro or even check with a windows installer if they work. If they don't, make sure they weren't disabled in BIOS.

FBI underwear sniffers catching the emi from my LCD or ram is one thing. They're state actors with infinite resources and nothing better to do...fuck em. If they really want you, they'll just seize your shit and plant evidence, or blackmail you. This is literally why the 3-letter agencies were created in the first place.

Intel ME/AMT is an uncontrollable computer, sitting inside your own computer, intercepting and listening to everything. The very thought makes me fucking itch. At some point it comes down to a matter of principal.

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what's your opinion on the E480?

>posting in an idab thread

>"People know me, I'm famous here." -idab

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Just boot into a live enviroment and find out. 3GB is a hardware limitation on that machine, btw.

reddit.com/user/IdabOfficial

Fuck off idab you literal redditor.

New thread without the autism
never make another thread again idab

It should be a rule in /tpg/ saying "Pretend like idab doesn't exist"

>Are you fucking insane? If you have to, get a pi and an SOIC8 clip and GET THAT SHIT OUT OF THERE!
??? Obviously, that's the purpose of coreboot + me_cleaner
>you merely "neuter"
"No"
The standard approach is *code removal* AND set HAP/AltMeDisable bit (to speed up things/remove bogus warnings concerning the missing ME)

But note that Chrome is designed to use up all the ram so even if you have 32GB ram they might just use up all of them?

Or stop overreacting to my posts.

Stop ruining the /tpg/

You're behaving like kids

Correct, he can still run into the same issue, but this way he can have about 30% more tabs/programs running by adding another ram module.

I just bought an i7 x230 for $240, how did I do lads?

Great buy if it's in pristine condition with good battery.

ibabs pls be my e-boyfriend

I'm heterosexual

I do have a Snapchat though, it's idab710420

Gay OP.

>idab

No

Oops didnt realize i posted in the retarded thread