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Custom Libreboot 9020 Optiplex PC (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specs:

i7 4790K ($50)

9020 Optiplex Motherboard ($10)

32GB DDR3 RAM ($35)

7900 XTX 24GB VRAM ($900)

1TB M.2 NVMe ($50)

EVGA 700 BR PSU ($50)

24 pin to 8 pin adapter for motherboard ($20)

NVME PCIe x4 Adapter ($12)

Molex to fan adapters ($7)

Power button adapter ($6)

Total: $1140

Using Arch GNU/Linux (Tried installing Debian, couldn't get the AMD drivers to work properly, so I'm using Arch for the moment)

Can run Stable Diffusion, LLMs, and basically all my games at 1440p High to Ultra settings (RDR2, GTA V, Arma 3, etc.)

GPU passhtrough doesn't work for the moment, but I can still run virtual machines. This is a Haswell motherboard, which can be 100% freed in the BIOS over time when we have enough Libreboot devs who can reverse engineer the rest of the blobs. Intel ME is also disabled (theoretically, since you can't actually fully remove it). This is a build that I did for fun, in the future, I'm planning on switching to a Z690-A motherboard with DDR5(can be flashed with Dasharo firmware). If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I'm quite curious, are there many advantages to building a libre PC? Last I checked, my hardware doesn't bombard me with ads, AI and other manifestations of enshittification. Yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I remember a colleague who had a laptop with a cpu that supported virtualization, but it wasn't enabled, and there was no option in the uefi to enable it, so he couldn't run virtualbox. Perhaps libreboot could help getting rid of such arbitrary limitations?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can encrypt your /boot partition with Argon2, which allows you to have a fully encrypted disk. You can check the integrity of your kernel at boot via Libreboot GRUB using GPG. Not as much spyware as you get with modern day computers. I know there is still proprietary ECs, microcode, etc. but we should all be trying to minimize proprietary software as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

minix is the end of user privacy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Minix inside everyone cpu

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well theoretically this is how you secure your bios properly?

But it ain't ready for mainstream at all is my understanding. OP is a FOSS trail blazing chad.

Hoping to go libre on my next built around 2030