Real exploiters go bug hunting for zero days. The XZ thing was a humorous clown dancing a jig in a minefield. The clown spent 5 years on the sideline, then stepped on a mine immediately upon entry.

I like your last statement.

I agree that users should take responsibility for their system, I myself learned to fully encrypt my Linux with luks2 and things about secure boot, tpm2 or so.

That’s why I’m making assumption of the need for non-tech savvy users, like most Windows users if they come to Linux world.

What the hell is going on???

Idle:

Run full load for 1min:

Certain laptop CPUs are not adequately supported on linux.

This is really sad. I found almost all **Intel Kaby Lake R ** processor suffer this problem.

Intel Core i7-8550U cpu frequency drops on high loads on Ubuntu 20.04 | AskUbuntu

opped working, and I couldn’t make it permanent. I would think you’d have to understand a bit of kernel development to be able to mitigate this is

Thank you for your share! I’ve seen those links before, no luck.

I think modifying MSR is what this script does. Throttled / Erpalma - Github