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Other than niche Keysight gear that's has three layers of nameplates because it's '90s vintage NOS, LXI and USB-TMC have replaced GPIB.

al177 ,

Applying power by itself doesn't keep SSDs from degrading like DRAM though. It's up to the manufacturer to design scrubbing into the controller to correct errors on infrequently accessed data before it's too far gone.

al177 ,

Like that time Keurig used a very special shade of orange on the lid of their pods as DRM?

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Next week: Fedora meets a new friend named Lennart while on her way to Multiuser Mountain. Will they be able to cross the init bridge without being caught by Sammy the Systemd Hating Troll?

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IME is even worse than that. It runs on a supervisor processor in the chipset that has privileged access to the memory, peripherals, and CPU, and can run when the rest of the system is powered off. IME is how Intel AMT can serve as a KVM-over-IP, and just because you don't have a CPU with Vpro doesn't mean all the components aren't there for an exploited or backdoored ME firmware to remotely log your console or inject keystrokes.

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