Great stuff as always. I’ll try to donate later this month

Cartoon reindeer smoking

Might be their ISP. I know mine routes my stuff through some datacenter somewhere else in my country if I use ipv4 (probably because they don’t have enough ipv4 addresses for everyone). Which I do, because their IPv6 protocol shits the bed if I actually use the bandwidth I’m paying for 🙄

You can use the same username since they’re unique per instance. I had the same one on Lemmy.world

Yoooo how the fuck did I miss a new creeper world ?

ROG is Asus.

Also I don’t think I’ve ever had this issue with my previous, nor my current rog boards. I never use their drivers CD so maybe that helps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

If I was a government intelligence agency I’d probably sell my soul to get access to these…

I get that they have legitimate use cases for corporations, but why are there virtually no consumer grade CPUs without that stuff ? Surely they would be less expensive and no one would miss the features on their home computers.