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RE: Privacy Is Sacrosanct. FELLOW NERDS OF STEEMIT: Are there alternatives to Purism PC builds? Let's discuss!
Purism is pretty good, but they aren't really the most cost-effective option if all you want is privacy. It's much better to buy an old laptop, remove the ME, install libreboot, and install a completely free linux distro. You can do that much cheaper than a Purism laptop, although obviously the specs of the machine wont be very good.
I get where you're coming from, but Purism goes quite a bit deeper than that. The firmware that lives on most of the components that compose the device are open source. Old laptops, etc still have the fatal flaw of being products of closed-source billion dollar corporations that cooperate with government at the drop of a hat. Plus with Purism, you're getting physical kill switches as well which is pretty cool. I haven't seen any other manufacturers touting things like that. We need more competition in this space . . .