Comment on Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

• jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I had expected someone running linux to know that lol

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well you expect wrong! Lol tbh it isn’t often I need to know the specific model of processor I have, typically “sticker says i5” works just fine, but this time not so much lol.

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    • static_motion@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know how much you care about this, but even within each product class (i5, i7, etc) there can be a huge performance delta between specific models, especially in laptop chips. The same applies to AMD.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This will be a concern next time I buy (or build) a pc, but this laptop is a “Hey Ma, do you still have that old laptop you don’t use from 2010? I wanna try linux” machine.

        Turns out after I installed Fedora I was never able to stop using it since it is so much better than windows so now I’m going on year 2 of “shit I guess I don’t really need to upgrade if it works this well!” Lol

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