Dude this is seriously cool as fuck. Valves contributions are priceless to the future of Arch and the rest of the Linux ecosystem.

You can still get the disc drive for it though. I mean, it is fucked up its sold separately but it isn’t just no disc drive availability at all.

Well, for now it is. Latency is also a big issue

Lease and rent, or piracy.

Wait are you talking about without the disc drive or even with it?

Sounds too European for the “land of the free”

Shit, Google would probably offer a private jet fuck an RV.

Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.

One that isn’t necessarily in our best interests.

Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.

The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who’s supposed to be the way forward and should’ve had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.

We were warned about a two party system.

The fact that you can’t discern what it is doing and it can’t be disabled makes it invasive software. There’s no shortage of qualified experts who agree with what I said and many others who point out glaring security vulnerabilities that come with using it. I linked a few for your convenience.

https://www.eteknix.com/nsa-may-backdoors-built-intel-amd-processors/

https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/06/amd_cpu_psp_flaw/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PSP-Disable-Option

I’d say with all of the above at the very least its invasive software that has complete access to your system and all of its files and processes.

Spyware by definition is “Any malicious software that is designed to take partial or full control of a computer’s operation without the knowledge of its user.” The fact that you can’t look into what all it can do makes it capable of doing this.

Oh you mean they’re going to underclock the expensive new shit I bought and have it underperform to fix their fuck up?

What an unacceptable solution.

Its a “trusted” execution environment for the system. So basically, it has access over your entire system and there’s no way to know what it is doing because it is proprietary and many people and third party security groups have expressed concerns about it before and asked them to open source the code that runs it and they will not do it.

Intel has a similar system the Intel Management Engine but you can disable that after bootup and also run it on open source bios so that it is essentially neutered. You cannot do that with AMD.

The NSA disables and removes Intel ME on their systems, so it seems like there’s a very real threat from these proprietary systems that have complete and entire control over every aspect of the machine and software running it.

Its the only chip that runs on open source bios and you can completely disable the Intel ME after boot up.

AMD’s PSP is 100% proprietary spyware that can’t be disabled or manipulated into not running.

No refunds for the fried ones should be all you need to see about hwp they “handle” this.

Lol I dare you to buy these used now.

Sure would be nice if you could disable the god damn PSP though. sigh companies just CAN NOT not spy on you. Its insane.

Money grab because they didn’t have anything new to actually bring to the table this time.

Man I just hate that you can’t disable the PSP spyware bullshit. It’s the only reason I don’t use them

Real shit, can you sue them for this? I mean they aren’t stopping selling them even knowing they are faulty. Seriously, how can you get your money back from these vultures.

Vote with your wallet and don’t ever get anything from this piece of shit trash ass company again. What a joke. They aren’t even stopping selling them KNOWING there’s an issue. Wish I had money to sue the fuck out of them.

Nah that was Intel trying to make excuses so it seemed like a competent company.