deutrino
So evidently disabling a big chunk of the #spectre and/or #meltdown patch in Linux can be accomplished by passing 'pti=off' or 'nopti' to the kernel as a boot parameter.
Eventually I'm gonna find out if this makes my machine usable again once it hits swap. Because right now it's become absolutely insufferable.
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