So Sup Forums why haven't you installed the only BIOS that actually respects your freedom, privacy, and human rights by using no proprietary firmware and disables the Intel (NSA backdoor) ME?
>inb4 the dev is a tranny and drama queen That's a red herring and has no bearing on the project The dispute with GNU was resolved several months ago youtube.com/watch?v=FQCwYAhZnQg
>inb4 no compatible system You can literally get a ThinkPad X200 for $50 on ebay
>inb4 no beaglebone/pi for external flashing You can get an X60 for internal flashing or use a Libreboot flashing service (about $50) on ebay for X200/T400
>inb4 that hardware is ancient An X200 will pretty much do anything besides "muh gaymin" plus there are some descent mobo's that support Libreboot for an Intel or AMD desktop system (see the wiki page)
thanks for this. going to buy a raspberry pi so I can flash the t400 I'm getting soon. What is better for battery SSD or HD? HD is what I thought but maybe it has changed.
Lucas Bailey
I would say SSD, less heat and energy, and no noise compared to a spinner. Plus significantly faster to load up and programs. I can't think of a reason not to get one. All my thinkpads have SSD and get great battery life.
Landon Jackson
cost is a factor for me. but I guess it will be worth it.
Leo Carter
If you're not concerned about capacity size, you can get 64GB SSD on ebay for $30.
Jeremiah Peterson
>be only libre BIOS available >be run by a coke-addict tranny the general thread on Sup Forums literally has an acronym of lgbt can't make this shit up
Landon Ward
suicide would be a good option for you.
Logan Reed
why would it be a good option? I wasn't hating on the project, just thought it was ironic is all
Colton Cox
Just wanted to stop by, give a (unnecessary) bump, this is a solid general.
Landon Wilson
please leave this website
Lucas Ortiz
Excuse me, but you're not the boss of Sup Forums
Eli King
>inb4 that hardware is ancient also, there's gonna be a fuckton of supported ARM Chromebooks in the next release when they actually get their shit together
Alexander Price
>you're not the boss of Sup Forums
Go. Now. Before it's too late.
Caleb Gonzalez
x220 support when?
Justin Hill
Late 2017 according to the last update I got from Leah
Ethan Gomez
everything but linux applies to apu2. best embedded x86_64 you can buy
Gavin Lopez
I don't give two shits about libreboot desu, coreboot is much more appealing to me
I just want an open firmware that boots faster, and I'm not concerned there will be some backdoor in a microcode update
I've tried it on my T400 and it's way faster to boot, but some issues with dual graphics, and the fact that tp_smapi goes out the window (no fan control, no BT disable, etc) pushed me back to the original BIOS
Easton Wilson
You realize libreboot is just a distribution of coreboot with any proprietary firmware removed, right?
James Morales
someone please tell me how to find out my x60t edid, I can't for the life of me get the methods on the wiki to work and I really don't wanna disassemble it (unless it's idiot proof but I can see myself breaking it)
pls help! :S how can I change the bootorder in libreboot? Its only booting from the HDD if its a debian based system like trisquel or devuan, parabola doesnt boot automatically, I have to select AHCI everytime :/
Yeah, if it were me I'd just stick with debian-based systems. But I'm biased on that subject :)
Angel Carter
Why should I bother with flashing my x200 Other than "muh botnet"
Jacob Green
Are you a tranny?
Zachary Thompson
Does that mean coreboot can use both gpu?
Gavin Adams
Tried option one, didn't work Option two was just a blank file Option three came up with this (the guide says you might need to change something, but what?) Option four is out of the question until tomorrow as i'm tired as fuck, anyone know what i've done wrong when it comes to finding my edid?
Hudson Barnes
It looks like the only option left is to take the panel off to get the number on it, sorry senpai :( just buy an X200 on ebay, they're as cheap as $50
Is freedom from proprietary firmware not enough? It also loads faster than the lenovo BIOS, so there's that.
Maybe, you'd have to check the documentation files on there website to be sure
Josiah Perez
should I just wing it for bantz got a 1/3 chance of it working kek
Luis James
Personally I'd just take the panel off to see, it's not that hard.
Christian Sanders
Will only thinkpads be supported? I'm thinking of buying a computer this year, and I don't want to buy a 10 year old computer. What do lads?
Plus I'll say my X200 can handle anything I throw at it, including 1080p streaming and light gaming. I got the X200, a new keyboard, the libreboot flash, an ultradock with DVD drive and displayport, and an atheros AR9380, all for about $160. Comfy af.
Christian Wright
Bump for interest
Isaac Rogers
Installing a free operating system on the RK3288 chromebooks isn't too easy though. Debian and ALARM both have step-by-step guides but either I'm an idiot or there's something missing from them. Anyway, it kind of works: I installed ALARM and migrated to Parabola and it boots from an SD card.
I still have a bunch of problems with it though. Booting and installing stuff doesn't go nearly as smoothly as it does on x86.
Charles Campbell
Does anyone know if the latest generation (5th) X1 Carbon has Intel Boot Guard on it? I really want to buy one but I would like to know beforehand if it's going to ever be possible to disable ME on it. It seems like Kabylake will get supported by me_cleaner eventually but if Boot Guard is present, you're eternally fucked.
Chase Walker
I think it has it, sorry senpai
David White
That's LITERALLY the point of this thread
Alexander Cooper
Says the nigger using reddit spacing
Robert Barnes
If someone that owns one could actually confirm that'd be great
Levi Clark
OP, include the T500
William Perry
>have librebooted X200 >run non 100% Arch GNU/Linux
Carter Peterson
*non 100% free
Samuel Diaz
>Another fucking general
Just make a thread and a pastebin holy fuck
Samuel Diaz
>libreboot for AMD >it's just a plea for AMD to "do the right thing" Guess i'll try in 10 years
Brayden Kelly
The true libertarian set-up.
Benjamin Anderson
Bump.
Easton Ortiz
good thread
Landon Roberts
Why not 100% free?
Jackson Clark
>An X200 will pretty much do anything besides "muh gaymin" If you delusional cucks keep telling yourselves that, you might end up believing it one day.
Aiden King
Fuck off. I've been using an X200 as my primary machine for months now. It just werks
William Ramirez
For webbrowsing and your shitty hobbyist scripting, maybe. Good luck getting any serious work done on it.
Isaac Long
It does 1080p streaming and Gimp works flawlessly for photo editing. I can even play my favorite FPS with no lag. Maybe you're just not very efficient with your computational resources?
Blake Hall
>and Gimp works flawlessly for photo editing. For certain low-levels of photo editing. Like how Notepad is a great DE.
Zachary Price
>streaming >GIMP >gaymez >serious work So what about video editing, CAD work, or just about anything else that requires more computational power than a toaster, how might it handle that ? Not at all ?
Ryan Richardson
It'll handle video editing just fine. I have no experience with CAD, isn't that something engineering students do?
Bentley Gomez
You do realize the X200 was a $2000 business machine in 2009? It's by no means underpowered.
Ryan Young
>It'll handle video editing just fine. It really, really won't.
>It's by no means underpowered. It is severely underpowered. It doesn't matter how much it cost back then. And cost aside, it was an *office* machine intended for light workloads. Not a mobile workstation like the W series. But if you think being expensive makes it powerful, then you probably think Macbooks are powerful too, right ?
Mason Price
Fuck off, it had the top of the line Core 2 Duo. I know what I'm talking about because I actually have one. You don't know shit.
Isaiah Sullivan
>Core 2 Duo Fucking exactly what makes it severely underpowered. A Sandy Vagina X220 is significantly faster with an i5 already.
You're delusional and you have no idea what you're talking about.
Angel Torres
You're the delusional faggot. It will handle literally anything. You have no arguments and are just spreading bullshit. Plus the X220 will be supported later this year. Now fuck off and stay out of this thread. This is for serious discussion not CIA spooks who want to discourage people from a truly free and private computing experience.
Carter Wright
So... the best is win7-10? That's not how that meme is supposed to work...
Why is so hard to understand? ?
Bentley Lopez
He asked specifically about battery, not which is better overall. But yeah, it's still the SSD.
Ethan Torres
It's expanding brain meme, the best is at the bottom
Benjamin Ramirez
>It will handle literally anything. Go edit a 10 minutes long 1080p video at 30fps right now and tell me how it goes. Here's a hint: It's going to go very, very slowly.
Evan Rivera
No, that's not how that meme works.
Is a joke, the last one is the worst.
Justin Reyes
>You can literally get a ThinkPad X200 for $50 on ebay fuck off I'm payin 125€ for a x200
Jonathan Clark
Sorry mate
No, it can go either way, I just checked on know your meme website
Jaxon Ward
you americans always have the best deals
Parker Gutierrez
Oh God... that's cuz a lot of brainlets can't understand the meme.
That shit started with bottom were the worst but a lot of faggs thought it was the best and started to make its own.
Now is acceptable the opposite? Fuck this. For me there says win7-10 are the best.
Grayson Reyes
X60 w/ Libreboot and Gentoo + i3wm here AMA
Lucas Bennett
What a fucking moron. I used to do extensive video editing on a 600Mhz G3 iMac back in the day with no problem. Only a retard would claim you can't edit videos on a machine like the X200
Jack Flores
Cool, but I don't understand the picture
Robert Moore
I am a senior level mechanical engineering and my x220 can handle small cad projects just fine.
If you're doing serious work with assemblys, you would get a fucking workstation GPU, bourbon not poor so i have a workstation desktop (well gay man desktop lol) and its unlikely I'd work in a place that would require me to purchase my own portable workstation You're spewing shit
Joseph Nguyen
will this program download tranny porn to my thinkpad?
Austin Morales
Hey guys, there's an open ticket on: PRIVACY TOOLS GITHUB
It asks knowledgable info about de-btonetted hardware
Your support will be appreciated there
www.privacytools.io - encryption against global mass surveillance
Adrian Smith
and you dont really need 1080p res videos if you have a 1366x768 or lower screen.
Jordan Wood
I output to a 1080p monitor over displayport, but you're right, I can hardly tell a difference between 720 and 1080.
Just point them to libreboot.org
It's not a program, it's a BIOS replacement
This.
Xavier Cooper
Those are drugs user
Christopher Bennett
that was kind of my point, that libreboot is just a shitty version of coreboot so you can yell "muh freedoms" while removing functionality from your device
I want open-source software to make my hardware better, not worse
Samuel Price
Aren't drugs, like, ultimate degeneracy? Why are you posting this poison?
Dylan Scott
Does anyone knows how to recover my fb without using email verification?
Joseph Gray
It's fully functional
Andrew Long
riiiight
Isaiah Sanders
I kind of want coreboot because of the superior mascot
rabbits > deer
Nathaniel Kelly
>he uses the reddit capital letters and punctuation
David Gutierrez
I think that's been fixed.
Isaac Lee
nigger
James Cooper
fixed in coreboot?
because from the description it seems to imply that this is a bug in the CPU that is fixed with a microcode update, and not necessarily a bug in coreboot
Logan Lopez
Oh ok, sorry I misread that. I've never messed with virtualization so I'm not as familiar with it.
Can we please keep racism out of this thread?
Joseph Bailey
No shit. That's 8 years ago. The Core2Duo in that thing didn't age as well as Sandy Bridge... The only thing saving it from being a pure text working machine is the fact that the iGPU is one of intel's first to support H264 decoding in hardware... the rest is just pure meh. Video editing my ass.
Aiden Russell
Instead of retrocomputing, just buy Talos II. raptorcs.com/
Ryder Myers
does it have sata ports or are there cheap sata cards for it? sas raid meme cards are expensive
Jaxson Walker
2300$ for just the mainboard + 1 CPU I hope they offer a single cpu board bundle in the future for ~1500$
Anthony Wright
There is an optional SAS controller, but it's 300$. Otherwise, you can buy an external SATA controller (that's what I do) or use NVME HDD.
Jordan Jones
bump for interest
Noah Price
Oh boy, a $2300 machine with no software! :^)
Daniel Morris
I can't seem to find a concise pinout for the x200 with a raspberry pi. I'm not gonna fucking buy a beaglebone.