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Build a PC and install Linux on it and be done with it.

• asymptosis 6y ago
  Yes, my thoughts exactly. You can't quite escape concerns about motherboard and cpu manufacturers baking in little security holes, but it's better than buying some pre-packaged system or laptop. Chuck Linux or a BSD on there and boom you've got back most of your general purpose computational freedom. Of course, you can't change the crappiness of the broader infrastructure, but "give me wisdom to accept what I cannot change" and all that. Choose your battles.
• luxuryballs 6y ago
  The hardware is also suspect. I think in the author’s mind we need an entirely new computing architecture.
• Koshkin 6y ago
  Firefox on Debian spies on me. (I mean, sure, a bare Linux probably doesn’t.)
  • gautamcgoel 6y ago
    Can you elaborate on this please? I run firefox on Linux and wasn't aware of any tracking.
    • sodality2 6y ago
      Not who you're responding to but default telemetry, default search engine (google), etc