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24 alternatives to There's a full suite of open alternatives to BigTech hardware now
It's been a difficult two decades for those of us who expect the products we buy to respect our freedom and privacy. We've been marginalized by the mobile revolution for so long that we'd nearly given up looking for options. While commiserating recently, we realized that several important missing pieces of the puzzle have neatly dropped under our noses while we weren't looking! What are they? In no particular order, the Fairphone6 w/eOS, Furilabs FLX1s, Starlite Tablet, new Framework laptops, System76 servers, OpenWRT One, and a number of others already shipping. Software options are…
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