That’s the main issue here. This fridge didn’t show ads when people bought it.
So buying things that don’t show ads isn’t enough. You need to only buy things that don’t get updates.

I just wish I could buy a cold box, a hot box, a spinny-arm water box and a spinny-drum water box without computer chips in them at all.

As a systems administrator, I’ll not worry about users taking over my job as long as Citrix exists.

The bootloader instructions are ass. But the final boss is full disk encryption.
Whenever I want that, I just use Archinstall.