I find it interesting because I think a lot about computing on your own terms.

This is the norm: Vendor-locked hardware, operating systems that manipulate you into making choices that benefit others than you, software updates that remove functionality or render devices useless, access to multimedia that is revoked, services shutting down to make devices bound to them useless unless hacked.

And I think I seek problems when I insist on running Linux on known hardware. But I avoid. so. much. by doing do.