What’ll get really bad is when the hardware OEMs become insolvent due to high prices killing consumer demand for their products, and then we are left with few to no options for PC parts.

They’re certainly on their way. The Raspberry Pi foundation, and many clones give me hope for a future for personal “hobby” computing, at least.

Raspberry Pi with Android Open Source Project is the best privacy option. It’s quite a bit of work to get tuned, but nice afterward.