The world runs on Linux

No this is Patrick

Are there dirt cheap versions on amazon (but not made by Amazon) i can use?

This is how all tech innovation has gone. If you don’t let the bosses exploit your labour someone else will.

If tech had unions this wouldn’t happen as much, but that’s why they don’t really exist.

Finally I can use emacs the way it was intended.

These went up as smart enabled street lights in the million plus city i lived in stateside.

Folks just didn’t care much and the company who owned them cozied right up to corporations with less than stellar reputations.