I believe in this case you should be contacting your vendor for technical support - you certainly paid more than enough to deserve some.
I have several questions for you: I am curious did you know pre-purchase that purisms laptops are not actually libre, that their ME isn't disabled and that the firmware is not "open source firmware"? (The hardware initiation process is entirely closed source performed via Intel's FSP binary blobs - these days unfortunately "coreboot" doesn't really mean open source firmware) I am also curious as to what lead to them instead of for instance the actually owner controlled lenovo G505S for only $300 - it is a little bit slower but the recc'ed A10 CPU is quad core (better for qubes), the CPU/RAM init is open source, there is no ME/PSP and Thank you for answering them Purism fact sheet: "Disabled ME": It is impossible to disable ME, the HAP bit and ME_Cleaner simply nerf it - however the kernel and any mask roms still run and have more than enough time and code size to perform a litany of dirty tricks. "we hand select every chip to respect your privacy and freedom" *in reality the laptop is probably just a re-badged whitebox model (you can't have a custom motherboard run for the volumes they are dealing with and even an FSP coreboot port takes $100K+ sucking up a lot of their resources) "We will convince intel to open source XYZ": Google attempted to get intel to open up ME and FSP for their coreboot chromebook project but even they were re-buffed - if they can't do it then a small company certainly can't nor would they have the resources to backport it to the many laptops they already have released. "We are doing the best we can" Wrong. There are companies that are releasing real libre firmware computers, brand new and fast, fully open source and owner controlled (but purism doesn't want you to know that) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/930d1776-4555-42e0-4e0f-0e84b20338c9%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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