Incorrect, everyone gets a 12 inch Thinkpad, product of the objectively superior PRC manufacturer Lenovo. It will come with a 500 page operation and service manual (multilingual) and require only one screwdriver.
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With a complementary install of GNU/Linux-libre of course to deny the encroachment of bourgeois blobs.
Naturally.
But firmware security is critical for revolutionary activities. Is the device in question open hardware?
https://libreboot.org/freedom-status.html
This is my frame of reference for what counts as "deblobbed."
linux-libre doesn't load these blobs, so it's the superior kernel in terms of freedom. But for demonic hardware in the wild, binary blob reduction works best.
Perhaps in the future the microcode problem will be solved by RISC-V and then the development of open firmware for cameras/wifi etc.
For example, remove the wifi blob for a computer that's always wired but keep the microcode. Refuse to buy nvidia or use Nouveau drivers etc.
I am aware of all that. That's why I asked for "open hardware". This means libre firmware.
hexbear wouldn't work on that machine :-(
reject javascript, return to tradition
everything you need, nothing you don't
listen, it softens the trot web design
Barbie is bourgeois swine and its wearing a crown 
What if it's a crown from the gutter
The Portuguese version doesn't have Trotsky on the home page BTW
It's got a disk drive that's a nice feature these days.
Am I allowed a mouse to click on the history link?
No
Fair enough. It was greedy of me to ask.
My eyes hurt
whose allowed?
Reminds me, Yugoslavian designs on both the hobbyist and professional market whipped ass since they weren't sanctioned as harshly as the Soviet Union. Not that those sanctions stopped Soviet hobbyists from developing their own kit designs and community, mind you. They also had some business scale designs, including fully compatible clones of Digital's PDP-11 minicomputer.
Sometimes old tv's hit different. I remember watching Yuri on Ice on Netflix with a handmedown CRT. I sometimes get nostalgic for it, but it was a miracle I could get that onto the stand even BEFORE my hernia. And so it stays stowed away, not taken to the city dump cause their hours kind of suck and as previously mentioned I've lost some considerable muscle mass.