↳ In-reply-to » @retrocrash So... About these other self-host(er) communities you speak of... Where do we find them, who do we talk to? 🤔

Yeah I get your dilemma James. I have almost the same one. I hate how Intel and AMD chips have built in backdoors [1] that Intel/AMD can take control of your machine without you knowing/agreeing. But it’s impossible to find a laptop/machine that doesn’t use Intel. There are a few ARM chromebooks, but they’re really not good enough for a daily driver.

Apple managed to escape by using their own ARM mobile chips in the M1/M2 laptops. But the problem is Apple still create’s a walled garden they can take over without your knowledge at any time. So we’re back to square one.

I’ve had to suck it up, stick with this stupid Intel processor, but I’m on a system76 2 which uses coreboot , which at least frees me from the UEFI [3] firmware mess (which is Microsoft’s control over what OS you can boot).

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
   
2. https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
   
3. http://techrights.org/2012/07/17/rms-on-uefi/
   

Oh wow, maximum message length? Annoying.