Abhas Abhinav of Deeproot Linux runs "Mostly Harmless" which sells refurbished Thinkpads with binary blobs removed. https://mostlyharmless.io/computers/
This is amazing, I didn't know we had people doing this kind of stuff in India. Are there any other similar services that you know of, that are doing open source/Linux-friendly hardware, etc.?
It's such a pity 51nb's upgraded ThinkPad project is no longer quite as active as it was. I think the small niche market for hacker-friendly laptops is far too diluted now, especially with qualitatively unique products like the MNT Reform.
the reduce re-use re-cycle part here is nicely inserting itself into the recycle tail side.