so no ai? thank stallman

It’s my humble opinion that I’m the humblest person in the world, and so I think I also deserve to be always treated like royalty on this platform >:(

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‘optional’ just like the functions Intel ME provides?

only the bad people are at the top so people see that and only the bad people decide to pursue that career path

(i’m just using ‘bad people’ as a simplification)

i wonder how much survivorship bias there is in this

no Looks To The Moon :(((

i mean there’s a possibility of malware hiding in usb peripherals since they have flash, and for thinkpads I think the camera, touchpad, smartcard reader are usually usb. If they hypothetically acted as usb mice/keyboards/network adapters/display devices, they could possibly infect your system ig

malware living on the bios rom could possibly live through an internal bios flash (normal “update firmware” thing in the bios or things like ivyrain) if it somehow manages to manipulate that process.

however, it is always overwritten by an external bios flash (using a raspberry pi or something using flashrom), because then you’re directly communicating with the flash chip. (if you suspect that the flash chip has been replaced with a malicious one you’re probably a bit schizo)

one thing is though is that the flash on the embedded controller is left untouched in most operations like this, so it could possibly harbor malware, but the only thing that could possibly do is make your laptop unusable or die randomly. It can’t really affect the software running on it i’d think. What you’d want to do if you’re really schizo and suspect your EC is infected is to externally flash lenovo firmware and use something like this to update the EC before externally flashing Heads.

the chain of trust for your installer USB would be something you can’t really avoid though, just use the most trustworthy computer you have

with the induction coil thing, it NEEDS to boot into a Linux partition that boots into RAM just to play the ElectroBOOM fleming’s right hand rule song at full volume while the coil runs

unfortunately there’s no ElectroBOOM song about the right hand coil rule or electromagnetic induction

as for making adversaries make ridiculous mistakes, making the power button short out the battery permanently and wiring up another button for the power instead would be a hilarious security measure

so all the windows are open?

im sorry ._.

BUT on the bright side you now have carbonated milk

but it’s the only good way to carbonate milk :(

Linux on the other hand gained a lot of exp()

chromium is still ‘libre’ though, so I don’t think that’s enough

“chrome was hogging up my ram” is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person’s decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it’s hilarious

joar jakobsson is swedish too

does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?

the fuse popped, right?