when the day comes I can no longer build desktops out of generic parts and use open source operating systems that are freely and fully programmable at a low level (C, ASM), I no longer will use computers at all and will never buy another computing device again.

A fine touché to a fine rant. I like to play with new things for a bit but all serious investment in hardware is capped off around ~2010 and geared towards post-apocalypse usefulness. Aside from Linux, only recently migrated from XP to W7/64 and reject anything that does not support it. If the S hits the F I want my heirs to be able to assemble and reassemble from parts on hand into a series of functional machines that could last for decades, even beyond if other parts are gathered quickly and preserved properly. With a side interest in small board computers if they run older software yet also run cooler.