rasterman was always an insane schizo (borrowing the difficult code from *magick but we don't talk about that), his only problem was that his schizophrenia didn't scale up to a full desktop project even with bountiful funding. https://web.archive.org/web/20160330125241/http://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened is a classic for a reason.
OK, so basically, if I want to be able to ship malware as 'Arch' all I need to do is infiltrate or compromise one random 'core Arch maintainer' and then I can ship whatever the fuck as a trusted package? They just compile all their own binaries on their own machines, hopefully they keep things secure, fuck it, we're doing it live?
Yes but Eterm has great transparency effects. Who cares about making it easy to 'render a window' if you can't apply variable transparency across the entire background area? Much more important than this basic corporate nonsense.
That's the core model. it's a "web of trust" with the higher authority being the arch developer team.
I mean, sure, as long as a) the maintainers aren't malicious themselves b) they haven't been hacked and the chroot compromised without their knowledge c) noone is standing behind them with a rubber hose.
So far the only thing I know of ever getting seriously comprised are aur builds. But those are a completely different beast. And at some point in the future how those are handled is going to be changed.
The i7 will be more vulnerable due to HyperThreading. Turning that off will leave it only around 25% faster than the i3.
I completely forgot about Spectre and i didn't know about the hyperthreading vulnerability. Ah well no point spending $30 more for something i don't need. I don't really play PS3 games all that much anyways and i can always pony up for a more powerful system at a later date.
Do you often use your TV PC to host VMs for random malicious actors?
I'll be running Jellyfin, console emulators, and Moonlight, the only incoming connection would be ssh and that will be local network only and i can make it so it only accepts a ssh key from my laptop or server. It'll be running Debian and i3 and my tvwcs program and I don't remember telling the AI to sneak in malware
Get yoself a Dell 3050 Micro foo. Thanks to the efforts of our good friend Leah (power word: Francis) Rowe, those little niggers can run a i3-9100T and 64GB DDR4. IIRC the i3-9100T is better per-core than the best i7 the 3050 can run natively, but has no hyperthreading so you've only got 4c/4t.
I'm actually also looking at a Dell 3060 micro with the i3-8100T, the i7-8700t is a Lenovo m910q. is that one also compatible? where would i get the 9100t for it, and can it run a i7-8700T?
The 3050 is socketed, yes, but AFAIK, you can only run the i3-9100T/i3-9300T/i3-8100T/i3-8300T on it with Libreboot. IIRC Francis said somewhere that you could, in theory, run other desktop CPUs of the same generation but you need to do some board modification. Not sure if it has ever been done in practice. The M910q can also be corebooted if that's the type of thing you care about. As for where to get them, Ebay? I'm looking at listings for a i3-9300T for $45 and i3-8100T for like $15-20. You might want to also consider an M920q, it has 8th/9th gen CPUs and an 8x PCIe slot if you want to stick a small form factor GPU in there to game on +++ coreboot.
I'm going on Favebook marketplace for the hardware and there don't seem to be other options and with shipping the ebay options are like $75 more
Yeeeeeeeeeeah I guess it depends on where you are. Try local refurb resellers if you've got any, they have a pretty high turnover rate and sometimes sell these tiny office PCs for dirt cheap. If not, then just use whatever is cheapest, all of these would do great as media centers.
it'll definitely be neat and I do have high hopes for the project i vibecoded, I might make a video about how it works and if anyone ever shows interest in the repository i'll clean it up and write a better installation guide.
