If you care about hackability, you can buy a completely open hardware development board for under $100 delivered. That&#x27;s roughly $45 in 1985 US dollars.<p>Android device makers from China maybe haven&#x27;t been told about their own inability to pump out clones. Somebody should let them know.<p>A VM instance from Digital Ocean costs $5&#x2F;month. Go buy a dozen, and install Xenix on all of them.<p>All your platforms up to about 1995 have emulators that run on your phone, completely opensource, and gratis.<p>The devices are locked down, because the cost of unreliability can easily exceed the cost of the device, many times over, and the single biggest point of failure are trojan horses &amp; operator errors.