Used PC charities and shops tolerate a certain age limit of hardware. My local charity tried (and failed) to sell PCs with linux installations. So they will only accept used hardware that can run a relatively non-ancient version of Windows. They said generally they do not want anything older than 5 years (but somewhat contradicted themselves by saying if it has a Win7 or later sticker on it, it’s young enough to accept). Anyway, 2013 hardware is on the chopping block because the FOSS platforms that do not demand high-performance hardwrae are unpopular. Most people are naive about the spychips and used PC shops are oblivious to their usefulness.

It’s sad that the spy chips were discovered over a decade ago, and now 13 years after AMD began making them we still don’t have info as basic as which chips have it.

I personally want to know which 2013 hardware to grab before it gets melted down as scrap metal.

I am not sure why you are getting downvoted for this post.

That’s the problem with Lemmy – it was designed to support silent downvotes. Some admins realize it’s a bad idea and have the wisdom to disable downvotes instance-wide until the Lemmy design improves.

My guess in this case: among AMD subscribers must be some loyal fans who “chase the shiny” and to avoid their own cognitive dissonance they would want to suppress anything negative about AMD’s later chips in an /emporer wears no clothes/ fashion. But w/silent votes, we can only guess.