On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:42:45AM -0400, Taiidan@??? wrote:
> On 09/19/2017 02:47 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote
>
> >Unfortunately, that comes at too high high a price for many of us.
> >But the cheaper systems are riddled with unexaminable firmware.
> >There's no good technical reason why this should be the case. We end
> >up resenting it but settling for it because it's what we can
> >afford.
> I thought the average sysadmin made 80K+? even in poor areas of US/EU

Many of us are not sysadmins. We my be students, hobbyists, or even
retired on fixed income.

-- hendrik