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Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 01:10:46PM +0000 schrieb spareproject776: |
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 03:49:24PM +0300, Dex Conner wrote: |
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> > Hi everyone, |
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> > So I've found a Thinkpad X200 online and I'm thinking of buying it for |
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> > libreboot purposes. Do you think the P8600 cpu can handle all the |
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> > compiling on gentoo? For the record, I don't have any of the "big stuff" |
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> > like KDE, GNOME, Firefox (all I have is Tor Browser [which I don't |
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> > compile], dwl and some terminal programs like neomutt and profanity). |
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> > Surely, I wouldn't be spending 5 hours to do small upgrades, |
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> > right?..right? |
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> > |
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> > Thank you |
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> > -- |
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> > Dex |
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> libreboot cant microcode updates, pretty much all dead now |
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> ie cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* |
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I actually disable all the mitigations on my machines. Those issues are |
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mostly relevant for shared hosters and cloud providers which require tight |
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isolation of their processes. For a personal machine at home, those |
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scenarios are mostly irrelevant, unless you click on every link you |
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encounter. I prefer performance. Besides, could it be possible that the |
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P8600 isn’t even vulnerable to Spectre & co, being so old? |
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@Topic: I‘ve been migrating my X250 (Broadwell i5, 2/4 threads) away from |
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Gentoo because build times kept creeping up. If you want to play and |
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experiment and do upgrades only once in a while, go for it. But I’d also |
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recommend binary packages and/or using distcc. Back in the day I had Gentoo |
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running on a puny netbook with Atom N450 (1/2 threads, with a quarter of the |
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P8600’s single-thread performance) and 2 Gigs of RAM, so packages were |
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usually built on a beefier machine. I even built firefox on it once just for |
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giggles, it took a day to build. But didn’t start any faster. I’ve been |
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using bin packages whenever possible anyway, as I didn’t see any advantage |
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over the effort. |
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-- |
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Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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