I understand the author. While I'm more suspicious about the hardware companies than the governments. But care about both. And look pure software companies, whi

I understand the author. While I'm more suspicious about the hardware companies than the governments. But care about both. And look pure software companies, which try to sell you services instead of code, executable and support. When hardware- and software are integrated be extremely wary - usually you only get an appliance. I try to follow these guidelines: 1.) Used and buy only general purpose computers, where you can swap hardware and operating-system. Or even better, firmware. 2.) Avoid Big Tech: Apple (literally all), Microsoft (Surface) and Google (Pixel) 3.) Laptops: Invest into vendors which allow all purpose computing or especiall Linux. Big ones are Lenovo and Dell, small ones are {System76, Purism, Tuxedo, ...}. 4.) Desktop: Built it yourself or order some from a shop which built it for you. Actually the Pixel Phones are rather good. But Google is not better than Apple. Miracast is really complicated but good. Google? Disables Miracast in the Pixel phones and tries people to lure into Chromecast, which is inferior and requires practically always Internet. If you want send content two meters across the room you don't want Internet! And Pushmail? Only with GMAIL on Pixel. We are in 2021 and this phones don't provide Pushmail for IMAP servers which actually provide this feature. Even Apple is better there, and Apple also provides CalDAV and CardDAV. But Apples doesn't provide file system access nor allow you to use your devics as you want! Lenovo and Dell improved their Linux support a lot in recent years - so I consider them pretty positive. But nothing is perfect. PS: Probably I receive downvotes because saying negative things about Apple is not well received here. Silicon Valley Clique?