<story><title>Ministry of Freedom – GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled</title><url>https://minifree.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcodiego</author><text>The girl who runs minifree has had many financial troubles while trying to keep it.&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend people buying products from people who are willing to make sacrifices to offer a product that respects your freedom.&lt;p&gt;If we do not support people like her, we assume the future risk of having zero costumer really owned devices.&lt;p&gt;Whenever you plan to buy a device and care about not being spied and having control over your owned device, please consider supporting vendors listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ryf.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ryf.fsf.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ministry of Freedom – GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled</title><url>https://minifree.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmos62</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m hopeful that open processors like RISC will be a big step in solving this. But, then there will still be all that other blob-y, closed hardware like SSDs, network cards, radios. In my humble opinion, there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with everyone having to use hardware (and software to a slightly lesser extent) that&amp;#x27;s not auditable and not patchable (by you). There should be a legislative framework for consumer protection.</text></comment>