Both Intel and AMD chips have an always-on internet-connected component that is meant for remote administration. Seems innocuous (to be able to power on a server without physical access is useful), but nobody really knows what those components are doing.
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Gabriel Price
Joseph Carter
Oh and you can't just turn them off on any CPUs made in the last decade. At least on the Intel side, trying to do so will put the system into a boot loop where it will reboot every 30 minutes.
Chase Thompson
This. If Intel/AMD at least released the source code for the firmware or provided the option to configure the system to run your own then it wouldn't be a problem.
Lincoln Ramirez
Because it can't run any of the software I use.
Backdoors are a meme for paranoid schizos.
Don't bother replying
Ethan Campbell
>$1000 quad core on a shit arch
what kind of actual cuck do you have to be to buy shit like this
Jacob Lee
>Not mITX
Daniel Gonzalez
My point is that gnu is not an operating system.
Dylan Cruz
>buy Incel backdoored housefires goyim
Nathaniel Cruz
>>weak memory consistency
Explain. I know what weak consistency is, but it doesn't seem like a feature you'd advertise. I was pretty sure x86 had a weakly consistent memory access model.
Carter Perry
For QEMU acceleration when emulating an x86 machine. You know, to run x86 software.