This is why I hope more people start to get behind the 'Perma computing' movement.

https://permacomputing.net/

Even if you don't agree with the exact political stances of the authors, the broad goals are notable.

I have said it for years now, perma-computing is the missing piece of the free software movement. There is no point in the software being complete free/open if you have hardware that is locked down.

Maybe one day, we will be fabing our computers, maybe not on a garage scale but on a much more local manufacturer scale. Similar to how you can get PCB's custom made but with open processor designs. Nothing too amazing but if you could pick or supply a chip design and have something made on a 300nm node or whatever, that is still a lot of power to the people. Chips that top out at a few million transistors not billion/trillions.

You can do computing up to the level of the mid 90's, which is neat but that is the big trade off you need to make.