@Suiseiseki > It really isn't hard to take a look at the product page and see "oh the NICs won't work properly as they're broadcom".
You're assuming they already know Broadcom are scum.

Instead, they might be assuming ethernet NICs don't usually pull stupid shenanigans and are in for a learning experience.

> It's plenty fast for all reasonable usages.
The memory capacity is part of where it's aging the worst.

> I'm wondering how hard 4 socket motherboards would be to port for twice the power (boards with an already supported
chipset are report-ably an easy coreboot port).

I haven't messed with firmware-level stuff, couldn't say.

> It's not too hard, but it'll be easier to just use a freedom-respecting distro instead than isn't going to accelerate down the slippery slope of proprietary software even harder eventually.
Which?

Much as I love Guix as a foreign package manager, the original distro seems to have some rough corners.