You don’t, I’m not talking about Intel ME.

That’s the only thing, us the public know about.

You shouldn’t use a computer at all then, your CPU contains Intel and Amd undisclosed backdoor ;)

By browsing the dark ones, you will eventually get a good non creepy one.

Having arch has benefits because of more up to date packages but ofc as it happened to you, it introduces more risks

And you know what? Doing updates once a week saved me from updating to this version :)