> He wants a computer with specific features, but doesn't want pay for the models that offer those features because they are too expensive? Correct. He wants a

> He wants a computer with specific features, but doesn't want pay for the models that offer those features because they are too expensive? Correct. He wants a computer with less complexity and less spying "features", and the market is failing hard at that. > reality has constraints No, these are entirely artificial restrictions. Companies invested very significant efforts to implement DRM, management engine, AMT, all sort of telemetries and backdoors. The emerging model of "privacy for the rich, surveillance for everybody else" is it expected consequence. EDIT: wow, downvoted to -3 already? Truly shining the hacker culture in "hacker" news /s