As a child of the home computer boom, I'm used to general purpose machines that do my bidding without interference from neither the manufacturer nor some unknown other wanting to sell me Depends and Bitcoins. That's what I want my computing to still be like.

The Man wants something different, though. The Man wants you to log in, click accept, sell your soul and Buy More Stuff. Hence, working to avoid that must be some level of subversive computing: Sticking it to The Man, one bit at a time.

In this text, I'll try to outline how I do my best to achieve that. Fair warning: it doesn't come without what some would call sacrifice, because you can't have the cake and eat it. This "sacrifice", however, might ultimately turn out to be beneficial.