If I had the money to buy a purism desktop, I would buy a powerpc computer from raptor CS. I don’t understand the point of continuing on and on about this already lost battle against ME and PSP on x86. You cannot remove either as they are intrisic to the CPU on if it works or not. ME is disabled woth HAP bit for NSA and other glow in the darks but that is it. The values behind these companies show no care of changing and instead only becoming worse in this area.
Also, if this wasn’t clear enough as someone previous has already said on this thread but nobody is really listening, the ME is still there on purism products. They can use whatever fancy word whether neutralised or anything else but it is still there. This is why they haven’t tried to get RYF for those products because we all know it is still there. They’ve disabled it in the form of breaking it’s legs and cutting an arm, but it still exists and starts before anything else so if mr spy at intel were to come along and activate a super secret backdoor at beginning before booting, who is saying it can’t be hacked? Even if they did remove it fully, then you wouldn’t have microcode to protect your computer. With x86, you ONLY have the option of being insecure.