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[–] voats4goats 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Systemd is not UNIXy. It is not one small, good tool for one job. Systemd is your one-stop-shop, your centrally planned economy. And when they don't have that fairly specific but important thing, it's a lot harder for it to mix well.

This exactly. Its contrary to Linux's whole design philosophy

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[–] huutista 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Linux, Windows, BSD, doesn't matter. You still have Intel ME or AMD PSP.

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[–] TeranNotTerran [S] ago 

That is a bit of a blackpill. These things are certainly sketchy but I don't think deabreakers in all cases. It sounds like the biggest risk is using an onboard NIC if you have those turned on.

That said, you can buy laptops from Puri.sm that have ME supposedly disabled. Or older gear, like 2009 or so. My favorite value/performance/non-ME range of desktops (can work as servers, but physically big) is the Dell T5400. You can also get the T7400 but it's super big and heavy. I think that's the last generation without Intel ME.

They are about ten years old but still quite workable systems in my opinion. I bought a T5400 with 16GiB of ECC memory and an E5450 Xeon for $150 delivered off Amazon a couple years back.

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[–] HndrxMn ago 

Supposedly IBM's POWER9 chips don't have that but I have no way of confirming that. I would love to get my hands on some though.

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[–] Paralaxor ago 

Not if you're using a phenom.