bro what.

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

bro what. my computer randomly accused me of trying to downgrade the management engine and now it shuts itself off after every 30 minutes

is the universe trying to tell me i need to upgrade and stop clinging to ancient thinkpads

[nyanhp@metalhead.club]

@lkundrak noooo, ancient thinkpads are the best! I'm still sad I don't have my x60 any longer.

Do you need the management engine though? I'm fairly certain it can be deactivated in UEFI

[vbabka@mastodon.social]

@lkundrak the only worse mistake than MMU's were management engines

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@vbabka how do i chop it off

[vbabka@mastodon.social]

@lkundrak contact Andrew Tanenbaum for instructions

[oleksandr@activitypub.natalenko.name]

@vbabka The irony is that ME runs Minix.

@lkundrak

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@oleksandr @vbabka yes but what is it for

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@oleksandr @vbabka is it kurvítko?

[oleksandr@activitypub.natalenko.name]

@lkundrak I dunno, something something management something security something something.

@vbabka

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@oleksandr @vbabka anyway turns out the problem was that the dram i picked from the floor was not working well

so i moved it into the second slot and now the backdoor doesn't whine any more

[vathpela@infosec.exchange]

@lkundrak @oleksandr @vbabka for finding a way to expose the power button to malware.