Intel breathes a sigh of relief as the spotlight moves off of them for a beat.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I didn’t know amd is local only, that’s amazing. Another huge reason to go for amd.

    And yeah, Pluton… I don’t use windows anymore and I encourage everyone to switch to Linux. But only a few people care about their privacy and not being tracked.

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      5 months ago

      It used to be a major pro-AMD reason for me too, but it’s become irrelevant since pluton. Weird thing is, pluton was announced with much fanfare for Ryzen 6000, but I’ve not heard about it since.

      Edit: I just read up on this topic again and found out that both purism and system76 disable the Intel ME in all their products (don’t know if all of it is disabled, since it normally controls a lot of necessary components)

      Edit 2: they can either remove most of its code from the flash, or use a disabling system that Intel had literally developed for the NSA.