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by marcan_42 1614 days ago
FYI, that ThinkPad T400 that the FSF certified has multiple microcontrollers running proprietary updatable blobs on the LPC bus with full access to DMA to all of system memory. I am literally more insulated from blobs with an Apple M1, which runs a dozen blobs none of which can take over my OS (thanks to pervasive IOMMU use), than with hardware that the FSF claims "respects my freedom".