On 09/26/2017 10:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:42:45 -0400
> "Taiidan@???" <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
> Classy!
Where I live most everyone who does computer stuff as a late 20s early
30s hipster neck-beard type with no girlfriend but a lot of money.

You can get a KCMA-D8 for $250, which has libre firmware, a libre BMC
firmware and can play the latest games with a 4386 CPU.