cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/58764195

I was in the non-profit shop of a local charity. They accept donations of used computers then resell them to the public. The profit goes to charity. I asked for their oldest machine. It had an AMD chip from the 16h family. Thus, a spychip.

So their oldest machine was still too new for me. I asked why don’t you have anything older? They said the general public would not accept anything older, and so the shop also does not accept anything older. When machines are rejected, they go to a factory that destroys them and recovers the raw metals.

It’s sad to see that pre-spychip machines are being destroyed and that even 2nd-hand customers are being limited to anti-consumer spychip hardware.

You

TPM is a different but similar problem.

Also you

The TPM is hardware constitutes a spychip as far as I’m concerned

You are running out of tokens or something

Oof… you had to snip out the critical qualifier “to the extent that it’s closed-source”. You’re profoundly despirate in trying to come up with a distraction from your shit show.

You are writing garbage

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