asciilifeform: phf: x60

asciilifeform: !#s x60

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but stock x60 bios did not permit 'illicit' nics.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ended up reversing the vendor bios on x60, or rather, the particular routine that concerned the hardware whitelist, and nopped it out

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: that was x60!

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: see logs for thread re x60/61

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: and x60.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: x60 is an amazing box (get the 64-bit last rev., 2GHz) but i must warn, it suffers from a barfalicious - by modern standards - lcd.

asciilifeform: i eventually put back the heathen bios on the x60, BUT i ida'd it and nop'd out the imbecile nic whitelist ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: theoretically, x60, because coreboot. but turns out that coreboot is halfbaked.

asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu the gentoo was tested on a x60 tp.

asciilifeform: in unrelated-to-anything nyooz, if anyone wants a patched (removed idiot pci whitelist) heathen bios for x60, email me.

asciilifeform: so at this point i'm satisfied that rms either 1) does not actually use an x60 machine with 'libreboot' ~~or~~ does not program. ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: 'My laptop is a Thinkpad x60 running the LibreBoot bios and Debian GNU/Linux, it overheats alot, especially when viewing Star Trek outtakes of Captain Picard. It survives though, even at 90 Celsius... It should die, but it's strong.'

asciilifeform: at some point (not any time soon, i've elementarily no time) i will replace the thermal paste in the x60 with industrial diamond

asciilifeform: i would have said 'there is a less atrocious machine, the legendary x60' but now i WON'T ...

asciilifeform: phun phakt, the x60's original bios has 'computrace' infection, though this is mentioned nowhere in the docs, nor in the original 'bios setup' (normally, they do.)

asciilifeform: 'thinkpad x60' with libreboot and replacement ('atheros') nic

asciilifeform: and i had to hunt for ~3 months to get a working example of the x60, also

asciilifeform: even supposedly well-documented and 'linuxbiosable' items like the x60 apparently come in undocumented variations that barf

asciilifeform: lulzily, i recently tried 'trisquel linux' distro on a thinkpad x60, as mentioned, e.g., here, https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html - it croaks on boot during acpi init.

asciilifeform: you can't trb-develop on the x60.

asciilifeform: so far ~failing~ to obtain a working x60-series