I totally agree with you there that most things are super unpractical and impossible to realize for end-users (or even engineers). What you can do though is tr

I totally agree with you there that most things are super unpractical and impossible to realize for end-users (or even engineers). What you can do though is trying your best that you can influence with your own skillset. I would never claim that any device is secure (heck, eversince BadUSB not even my power transformator is) but I'd have a better feeling when using coreboot that I configured, built and flashed via my CH341a adapter instead of an OEM SeaBIOS, for example. I mean, software is my skillset. Software I can influence. Hardware: not so much. I don't know whether there are government-level exploits available for coreboot or libreboot, but I think that's the level of security where we can just dump our hardware into the trash anyways. Additionally I don't have the skillset of verifying that a RISC-V chipset is really open, verified or secure. Therefore I would have to trust somebody else to do it, which might become the centralized point where the red tape fails for all of us. When it comes to open hardware, mntmn [1] got pretty far already. Even though I personally think that the touchpad is still unusable in terms of modern UX. But I really admire them for what they do, and that they do not compromise on their core principles. [1] https://github.com/mntmn https://github.com/mntmn