How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf]
There&#x27;s always the non x86 path.<p>I have recently purchased a pi-top which is basically a 3d-printed laptop case + laptop battery + keyboard + display + raspberry pi 3. The keyboard could be better and I&#x27;ll swap out the pi for a beagle bone black (pi comes with a binary blob) but it&#x27;s a surprisingly useful package. I only bought it to experiment a bit with ARM assembly on the go but it&#x27;s actually powerful enough for a lot of day to day stuff (mail, surfing, libre office, programming). Not great but good enough.<p>Of course you have to be willing to trade speed and availability of some programs for that control but in theory a beagle bone + input and output devices is a nice little open machine for a lot of day to day stuff.