Well said. And I am disappointed in myself as much as anyone. My only consolation is that I at least took a frontline part in making Linux, GNU, FreeBSD, and FOSS in general what it is these days, on the back-end.

— sent from my iPhone

I suppose someone who understands the problem choosing an iPhone in spite of it is very slightly culpable, but it doesn't sound like you helped build any of these systems that deprive end users of their final say over computers they own.